Upgrade Time

It is the salt of the earth for software vendors. It strikes fear into the hearts of end users. It often comes with a military component: SNAFU. Today – for me at least – it comes with a Thank You.

I have tended toward prolific around here. It amazes me. When I had a little Live Journal account, intermittent would be overly generous. I thought, after starting here, I’d be lucky to last two months – at which point I would have become a dry well.

On days I don’t have a post yet, I’ll run across an idea or bit of news that seems to get my juices flowing. The last few days it hasn’t happened. I had a couple in the can and got by but what’s left is incomplete or a weekend post where I really drift from the main idea.

So, it is 5 A.M. — an ungodly hour that I seem to see all too often. It is when I typically find/write something for the day’s blog. I’ll read my mail and browse the net and it usually gets the juices flowing. A bit later I’ll go play some poker. Over the last few months that’s been more poker than normal. I have been playing 2-3 hours a day – almost all stud with the occasional HORSE thrown in. I usually start on Full Tilt and try a bit later on Ultimate Bet later in the day. UB doesn’t have as many tables going early.

But I haven’t played poker for several days either. I think Saturday was my last ring session. I played some .50-1 and actually booked nice wins on both sites. The hiatus isn’t happening based on anger or disgust. I’m assuming that a bit of recharge in both areas and I’ll be back on track.

ADDENDUM:

I have been watching Ken Burns’ The War on PBS and finding it pretty disjointed. But disjointed is a good adjective to use with war. We tend to glamorize the beast. The primary idea in this version is the sacrifice and human leadership from the bottom up. Generals tend to get all the good press and that hasn’t happened here. We seem to be winning The War so far on guts, stupidity, and segregation. Whatever your view or war, politics and the human condition, the ‘epic’ paints with enough broad cliches to satisfy our needs. Who in last night’s episode didn’t know that Babe was going to get killed? Burns beats us over the head with opinion. He glories in showing us our poor side. This is hardly a full glorification of ‘The Greatest Generation’ or mankind in general.

I actually found it inspiring and that may be his goal. If you go beyond venal fact, you see people with a right to take a pass stepping up and doing the ‘right thing’ – or the closest they could come up with at the time. Whether General or oppressed minority, people tried hard and when that often failed they tried harder. If there is one thing our race is good at, it is perseverance. That trumps intelligence and the lack of it.

I can’t wait to see how it turns out. Although, in the broader sense, none of us are likely to ever get to that point.

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