Well I finally get to do the Poker Room PSO promotion. PokerRoom.com was my first ever poker room that I signed up for and I played a couple of their freerolls there. What I didn't realize was that that was going to interfere with my doing a PSO promotion there. Fortunately, I was allowed to wait 6 months after closing my previous poker room account and now I've reopened it and am ready for business! So I finally get to play at Pokerroom which is something I've wanted to do for awhile. I really like their software, and they have a lot of traffic which is kind of nice. So that's what I did last night. I also played in the 4th PSO league event. I played terribly - I didn't make a laydown that I should have and that cost me far more chis than it should have. After that, I was shortstacked and didn't get lucky. Oh wells.

Other than that, life has been going really well. The research front is trucking along ... even speeding up a little bit as I help get another paper ready for the end of the month. If this and the paper we submitted last month happen, I'll have 6 papers in my research career before I get to my thesis. Sweet deal!

Diane and I are doing awesome together. We spend a lot of time together and frankly, I couldn't be happier. We've been together for more than 2 years, and it still feels almost dream-like, though I think I'm finally convincing myself that it really isn't a dream. Yay!

This past weekend was a busy one. On Friday, I joined a group of friends for a night of beer tasting. It t'was quite enjoyable. I hadn't been at a drinking party in a long time, so it was kinda fun to do that ... not that I had a huge amount of alcohol. Just enough to feel a pleasant buzz. On Saturday, we went out for Dimsum, and then hung out for a bit before going to a games party that one of the profs in our department put on. It was fun, as usual. Sunday was pretty quiet and I was pretty glad for it. Diane and I joined my parents for dinner to celebrate my sister's birthday. We played some games and it was fun.

So that's my life update. I have no idea how I'm going to keep this pace going, but it's pretty fun at the same time!

Heraldk