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Yesterday was our second game of Ultimate this season, and again we lost.  This time we narrowed the gap as the final score was 13-9.

I again was able to wring out another bucket of sweat after running in the insane humid heat for an hour.  We had two new players on our team, Frank and Mel, who just had their very first game of Ultimate.  Our opponents were a lot tougher than our previous ones, and we have improved our game in a lot of ways.  Though there’s a lot to be desired.

This upcoming Saturday a few of us are going to an Ultimate skills clinic.  For a cheap $10 we get four hours of instructions on the basics to the game, and I think it’ll improve a lot of our skills individually.

After a week without biking to work (due to all the late nights at Bluesfest last week) I wasn’t able to keep my endurance up throughout the entire match.  Next game will hopefully be a different story.  The fun and addiction of the game is still strong however.

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Sudip asked me today to help fix his ailing computer.  This morning he tried to turn it on and nothing happened.  No spinning fans, no beep, and not even a small flicker of the LED light.  I diagnosed the problem as a power supply failure, since a failed motherboard would still allow for the power supply fan to spin up.  It’d be a quick fix and I don’t mind helping him out since he’s such a noob with computers.  :-p

We dropped by a local computer parts store to pick up what seemed to be a decent power supply.  It had a huge slow rotating fan and a spiffy blue LED light to boot.  The cost was decent and the guy at the store recommended it.

So we went back to Sudip’s place, popped out the old supply and installed the new one.  We plug in the power cord into the wall socket, hit the power switch, and I look up at the monitor to happily see his computer boot up.  Just that instant though, Sudip yells out “What the F#@!?”

It smells like burning and I look down to see a huge column of smoke coming from his machine.  I quickly tell him to shut it down.  The smoke is suffocating.  We gave it a few moments to dissipate and I dig around the wires to see what’s going on.  The cables feel hot, and after a little dig I find his power cord to his floppy disk drive has melted.  There’re chunks of melted power cord plastic everywhere, and the power socket to his disk drive has fused together from the heat.  Scary stuff.

We return to the store, and after some terrible customer service they give us a replacement supply but won’t budge when we ask they replace our floppy disk drive that their product has scorched.  “This ain’t future shop” the retail guy says.

We plug in the new supply, cross our fingers, and flip the switch.  No fire.  All is good.  Installing new power supplies into systems from now on will probably give me the heebeejeebees.

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Tonight was my first time playing in a fun session of online poker in awhile.  I played once last week for about 10 minutes before losing the drive to play.  Well, I didn’t lose the drive to play I just didn’t have the mindset to play at all.  Today was different though, and I fired up my good old PartyPoker account and opened up two tables.

I played for about half an hour and made about $20.  By then I got tired and the fear of losing what I had won started to sink in.  I’ve always had this nagging fear of “quitting while you’re ahead” and being that I’m reintroducing myself to the game, I left.  Simply playing scared leads to bad play.  And while I was sitting at a table where I was cleaning up, playing poorly from fear would eventually make me lose.

I guess it’s one hurdle I have to get over again… and boy am I rusty.

I’m glad to have played though, and I got that same old rush from poker again.  When I’m back in school again in September I’ll probably start playing seriously again.

What’s different is that this time around I played 6-max instead of the regular 10 handed ring game.  With only 5 other players at the table this means that I can be more aware of how they play, but it also means that I have to play more agressively to win my pots.  I never played 6-max often, and I never mastered it… though starting over again I’m coming to realize that it’s the game to play if I want to get back into it as that’s where all the action (bling bling) is.

I know I said that I would play poker part time in school, and that idea completely flopped last winter semester.  Though this upcoming fall hopefully will be a little different.

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