As for me, I hocked my brains, packed my bags, and headed west

Hello everyone -

I'm now back in Los Angeles and re-joining all you working stiffs out there with legitimate jobs. For those of you that don't know me, in real life I am a software engineer for an aerospace/defense contractor. Today was my first day on my new project and it was accompanied, as usual, by an avalanche of information - of which I absorbed maybe 2%. In the past, this has been accompanied by a semi-panicky feeling of "Man, I will never get all this" but I've been through it enough times now to know that I'll eventually retain enough to get by, or at least, convince my superiors that I am getting by. It would help if I cared in the least about the convergence of technology and the military. But I don't. The enjoyment I get from the job has nothing to do with the subject matter.

Anyway, by the end of this week I hope to put together a summary post that will conclude this blog. It will take a while mainly because I am trying to get a normal life put back together. Plus, I need to get the rest of my Vegas data entered and see if I can draw any meaningful conclusions from it, other than the obvious "Dude, you suck at poker". Among my many fields of expertise is not knowing how to manipulate Excel very well, so I will be bludgeoning the numbers to death in a most ham-handed way. Finally, I have a sneaking suspiction that my last post is going to be rather lengthy (who, me?).

In the meantime, there will be no posting. However, to keep things interesting, and because I am really curious, I would like to invite and encourage all readers to comment on this post with a little bit about themselves and their thoughts on poker, the blog, life in general, or whatever you feel like. I've been told a few times that the blog has sort of become a daily part of some people's lives. One of my sisters in Virginia said she had told a lot of people out there about it. And then there have been several readers that seemingly materialized out of nowhere - Lan Whu, Limber Lips, and Chuy, among others. Father Time wrote in with an interesting chronological situation, and someone else wrote in with a slew of sentences that contained words that were spelled the same but pronounced differently (I loved both of those comments...so weird and random). Finally, there are also several people who would send me emails because they were a little shy about public posting. Well, now I welcome anyone and everyone to introduce themselves to everyone else, via the comment section. It's your turn to share what's on your mind. Hopefully in this way we can have some new material to read until I get the last post up.

Play well, everyone!