Bagel slicing NINJA

Jewgels!
The good news: Dan sent me 30 NYC onion bagels (Non-NYC bagels do not qualify to be called jewgels) today. The bad news: I'm on a low-carb diet. The good news: Bagels can be frozen and rationed out over time. The bad news: Although I did freeze them, the "rationing out over time" thing is unlikely to happen. The bad news: To freeze them you have to cut them in half first. Good news: I am now a BAGEL SLICING NINJA MASTER! The bagels are from H&H Bagels in case you want some too!

Dave and Viv sent a great card, so did everyone actually. Best one was from Julie & Shawn, seen to the left.

Inside was a mirror. Lol.

Revenge is a dish best served cold... Can't wait for my best man speech...

Speaking of which, I got the measurements card for the tux for Julie's wedding the other day. Hopefully I'll drop a belt size before then, as I was a 32 until age 28, and I'm barely fitting into a 34 now, but I just started excercising and eating right for the first time in... well, ever, basically. So by the end of the summer I'd like to be down to a 33.5.

Jack, my roommate, has dropped about 20 pounds in the last 3 or 4 months, but he's been playing tennis every day for a few hours. I may join him in that endeavor once I get some money and figure out what the hell's been wrong with my legs the last 6 months. I may not have blogged about this before, but my legs have had this strange burn and weaknesses for quite some time now. I've been to a few doctors and had a few tests, but they've come up with nothing so far. I have to hit the rhumatologist next, see if he has any ideas.

How to pick up a slut in 30 days...
In other news, Vikki is here in town this week for the NAB conference. She's staying in a hotel for a few days, then with us for the weekend. Will be good to see her. We've been talking about making a documentary about this guy she knows who runs a "How to pick up girls" company. They charge like $10,000 for a few classes. It might make for a pretty cool story, to follow 1 or multiple guys around as they try and apply what they've learned in class to real girls. I'm heavily in favor of following 1 person, but she's heavily for multiple.

You may be thinking "Why not focus on a bunch of people won't that be more interesting, Eric, you dolt?" Well, yes, but no. While it probably would be more interesting from a purely documentarian standpoint, most (not all, but an overwhelming majority of) movies have a single protaganist. This is because the audience can cheer, focus, and relate to one set of circumstances/characteristics better than to multiple sets. Super Size Me vs Spellbound. Spellbound worked with so many kids (I think they followed 8 kids equally - I haven't seen it) because it was a competition. If it wasn't, I believe it would have been too disjointed.

Vikki is admittedly not as good at the business side of movies as she is the technical and artistic sides, and as such, usually is agreeable to compromise when it comes to things like this. Not that I'm any sort of expert, with my grand total of 0 production credits and 1 acting credit. I think what I'll propose is, if we have the resources, let's follow multiple people, but at the end, if we think we have a real winning personality in the group, let's not rule out focusing on him.

Joyce's bad luck

Got this from Joyce today:

Here's my sad story for the day - I played all last weekend on a "Megabucks" machine in Harrah's in a.c. I had such a feeling for the machine and a friend told me when the jackpot goes to $10 million, Megabucks hits. Anyway, long story short, I played Friday, Sat., Sunday and Monday, blew $2000 in the stupid thing, and it hit (largest jackpot paid in a.c.) on Tuesday - the exact machine I was playing. Can you believe it? I've been so sick over it....

My response:

Wow, that sucks. The LARGEST ever paid? Holy shit. How big was it?

Jesus that sucks. You have my kind of luck. It must run in the family.

I quit playing professionally a few months ago after I lost $1000 in two hands. I had KJ and I was up again a guy who was going all-in on every hand with nothing. He was drunk and had lost about $4000 in the 2 hours I'd been at the table. He bet $50 preflop and I called. The flop was K4Q and he bet $100, I raised to $300, he called. The next card was a 9, he went all-in for 200 more, I called. The river was an 3. He had 39 offsuit. The very next hand I was on the button with JJ, 4 people called ahead of me for $50 each, I went all-in for my remaining 300 or so and got 2 callers - AA and KK.

I did manage to qualify for a 44 man "best of the best" freeroll at Rio though. I came in 11th - 10 places paid. Last hand, blinds were 1500/3000, guy in first position goes all-in for 14000, everyone else folds, I'm on the button with AK suited and 13000, if he has ANY two cards other than AA/KK I have the odds to call, so I do, figuring if he had AA/KK he wouldn't have gone all in (he'd want a caller). He has KK, and I'm gone. If I folded and waited I woulda made $3000.

So right now concentrating on my new company (www.clickprotector.com) and hope to have it up and running very shortly, and at long last. I have spent the last few days setting up credit card processing, and tonight at 3am or so, an automated script will run, and we'll see if it works.

Although I am not playing anymore, it's mainly because the money I have is being saved for this business, I don't want to risk more KJ vs 39 bullshit. If I make good money doing clickprotector, I hope to be back at the tables. Do you or Gary plan to play in any WSOP events?