I’m Amused

This week, everything amuses me.  I’m amused when I hit a royal in stud during a .25/.50 HORSE session on Full Tilt, get callers all the way, and still only drag a $7.15 pot.  I’m equally amused when my A-J-xxx flush loses to an A-Q-xxx flush.  I’m amused when I can end a two hour session up a buck or two.  But most of all I’m amused that my amusement has built my meager $52 starting bankroll to a little north of a $100 in less than a week of infrequent play.

I didn’t start my week amused, but I apparently have been investing my time wisely.  Since getting back from Vegas, I’ve been spending time catching up with some of my favorite bloggers and mindlessly surfing the web.  I started with Al Can’t Hang, who really struck a chord with me this week.  Al captures the corporate mindset with a phrase like, “If I saw them loading us into box cars, I would not have been surprised” and compares the smell of his colleagues on a hot day to “the ass end of a back alley hooker after her shift. ” The man is a genius.  And so I ended up being amused by Al and by the fact that it’s been many years since I had to clock into a high tech sweat shop and worry about such things as the proper etiquette for pooping at work.  Granted writing is still the last vestige of piece work in America, but at least I can do it in my jammies, control my thermostat (the ultimate sign of power in the corporate world), and have access to my own bathroom. 

I then ran across a blog from a fellow Austinite who had a post about placing phony “missed connection” ads in craigslist.  I was amused; I couldn’t help myself.

Well, I’ll probably go back to Full Tilt for another buck’s worth of amusement, while I sneak around on the web.      

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 9th, 2007 at 5:57 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.