Travel and Time

The WCOOP insanity ended last night. It was a great gig and the hours were on par with what I've come to expect from poker. The issue was the hours themselves -- working every night for a week and half from 8pm til 4am Pacific, right after coming home from 15 time zones away. As I told Otis yesterday, I was definitely grateful for the opportunity but the hours were so weird that at any given moment I hardly knew what time it was, never mind the day.

[Speaking of weird time issues -- what the FUCK is up with football being at 10am on Sundays? I didn't have a television when I lived in Santa Monica back in 2003 so that little annoyance escaped my attention. Sundays were made for sleeping until 11am, having sex and then eating a noon brunch. The football is supposed to come AFTER that, not to require an alarm clock to make sure I'm conscious by the time it starts.]

Now I have two days of blissful relaxation, my first since August 27, before heading off to Seoul. Seoul has a reputation of being a very insular place and completely distrustful of foreigners -- the complete opposite of Macau, whose economy couldn't exist without tourists. It's supposed to be difficult to navigate around Seoul without the benefit of Korean language skills but that just sounds like a challenge to me.

I have no doubt that the trip will be fun, it's just disappointing that it means I have to miss AlCantHang's Bash for the first time in four years. There's nothing remarkable about Phoenixville, PA. What makes Bash-weekend remarkable is the crew of people who choose to spend their weekend in a place as umremarkable as Phoenixville.

Not much else to say right now. I basically haven't left the house in over a week, except to run down to the Venetian book yesterday to catch the Eagles game with CK and where I noticed my J-E-T-S are +375 on the moneyline for tonight. That seemed like a good value, so I made an imaginary $20 bet (I just can't bet on the Jets) before we left. Favre better show up -- I pulled him off my fantasy bench for the first time this season.

Plus I have an imaginary $75 to collect when he leads the team to victory.