Still alive. Still kicking. Still playing poker. Still with girl. Still fucking hot. Still love the heat.

Just gonna put it down in whatever order/fashion I please...a-thank you. .

It’s been a while since I blogged and I’m not sure what came over me but I decided to put together a doozy. Vegas was awesome and it seems like it’s forever ago. Since returning to Mexico some pretty cool stuff has transpired. For one, Vince (aka Vinciento) came back to Mexico with me from Vegas. Vince is an adept world traveler with an impressive resume of places/cities/countries travelled. He does it my style - just hits the road on his own and finds that figuring out how to survive/adapt/communicate on your own is the most rewarding experience. Although he has me to help, he is also fine on his own and has learned the language very fast. He is naturally a very easy person to get along with and he has had no trouble making friends here. He got a super nice house (for a not so nice price) and we are all pretty jealous of his pad. By “we” I mean Reefypoopoo and I and my new housemate Matt.

Matt replied to my post on 2+2 about my room for rent. He had never flown before so I can imagine that a 3 city connecting flight to Mexico as your maiden voyage must have been pretty exciting for him. I think it has turned out to be as good as I made it sound. He has now been here 6 weeks or so and will be here through the end of Sept at least. We have had some real good times and I have planned more to come soon. Matt is a HU specialist and he puts in work on the tables. It was nice to get him all set up with his bank account, utility bills and new poker accounts on non-US sites so that he has plenty of options for games. It was also cool to see him start getting SOME of his Cereus money off now that he has a non-US Cereus account. If I had as much money stuck on that site as he does, I would probably have quit the game. To work that hard and have it all gone in an instant would soul crush me. He has had no choice but to start over really and build a new roll from scratch and he is putting in the time and volume to do so. Its pretty impressive. (edit) Kid brought no less than 3 (three) girls home from the club last night.

Poker for me has been extremely tough lately. I was staked to play live in Vegas and I put in a lot of work without much reward. I ran so extremely bad in huge pots that even winning one of those would have made the entire trip worthwhile poker-wise. I did manage a tiny profit and I was happy to be shipping back a little bit of money to someone that trusted in me and staked me. I have since been grinding 100NL on Party and ipoker. I am down a bit over all (with rakeback) but I feel like my game is changing dramatically for the better. I was down about 20 BIs or so and have grinded back quite a bit of that with some great play with both my non-showdown and showdown winnings above 0. I feel like my aggression is fine tuned to the rights spots and I have been owning some regs pretty hard. I’ve been watching some videos lately and I have found that I can really enjoy them and learn from them again.

My girlfriend just graduated college (thinly veiled brag on my part) and we were invited to her graduation party. When we arrived to the place it was being held, we were extremely impressed with the setting and the job the students did setting it up. This was a party that the students planned, organized and even funded. The schools ceremony is just that, a ceremony, and this was dinner, music, speeches, alcohol, the whole nine. My girl looked stunning in her dress (that she had made just for this occasion). The rest of us felt a bit underdressed. She made little cupcakes with chocolate graduation caps (chocolate square on top of upside down reeses peanut butter cup with a thin strip of red fruit role-up as the tassel) and little candy diplomas. I thought they were awesome and extremely creative. The food was good and there was in fact an open bar so things got pretty live. I was forced to dance banda which always sucks cuz hey, big white guy dancing to this music is amusing to everyone accept said big white guy, amirite? But overall, great party and great experience.

My girl and I were so pumped for Premier League to start and it has been a blast. We didn’t really know what to expect from Man U. They lost Van der sar and replaced him with De Gea and that was a huge ? for us. Chicharito was out due to some phantom concussion in the preseason and enter some new names like Welbeck, Young, Cleverly. Welbeck looked hot to start this season so it was going to be interesting to see what Fergie would do when Hernandez was playable again. Was wondering what a 3 striker front of Rooney, Hernandez and Welbeck would be like. Anyhow, Welbeck is injured now and Chicharito had 2 goals in his first game back and Rooney followed with his 2nd consecutive hat trick. Rooney is firing on all cylinders atm and its very impressive to see this guy at top form. Man U is Man handling clubs right now but we’ll wait to see what happens vs. man city or chelsea coming up.

I have been doing well weight-wise. I have lost about 50 lbs since March and it is staying off. In fact I’ve lost about 8 or 10 more since vegas. I am eating small amounts and cutting down on sugar and exercising regularly and it feels good. I MUST give up Coke though. Probably the hardest thing of all to give up so far. I had my first men’s bball league game last night since returning from Vegas. I hadn’t played since Vegas so I was happy with how well my body took it. I had 11 points with 3 threes and we won by 10 or something. Was a total blast.

Planning some trips coming up including a Vegas/SF trip in a month or so. I think that could be extremely fun. I hope JaymesBond joins us on this. I look forward to the SF leg of the trip because it’s where I be from. I find it incredibly fun to show people around my home town and have them see and experience things they wouldn’t get to if they visited on their own. We will see how things transpire though because finances are tight atm.

I finished the 2nd book of the Game of Thrones series and it was great. Starting on the third now. It blows my mind to think that 1 person created this entire world. Every landmass, character, personality, animal, story line, etc. was created in George R.R. Martin’s mind and the entire story is phenomenal. Absolutely love it.

Just purchased NFL Season Ticket and watching Eagles v. Rams. I have been a Mike Vick supporter since he finished his set in the pen. I wanted nothing more than to see a guy with immense talent build himself back up. There are sooooo many stories of these athletes self-imploding and never making it back. It’s so great to see that it IS possible and even if you make mistakes, the door will be open for your return, even if it is just a crack.

I’ll end this ramble with some pics:

We went to Cabo for a few days when we got back to Mexico. Vince on his balcony


We've had some fine times in the club




And then we've had some REALLY fun times in the club




Standard mexi drinks:


Dedicated to the game



This girl was supposed to be famous or something like that


Graduation party pics








Off road racing is huge here in Baja. We went to a race.

What everyone comes to see - wreck


storm clouds


chilling in cabo pulmo. was totally fun





long over due of infamous mexi-haircut slaughter


tell me this kid doesn't look fresh after his "terrible" haircut (no homo)


Randoms:

Vince made us spaghetti. was delicious. (kid always has girls around him)


Buying refreshing alcoholic beverages at the to-go window at your neighborhood bar


Awesome day at the beach



As the weather gets colder, you Canada kids are welcome to La Paz.

Peace.

p.s. if anyone needs help getting money off of merge, I can get 10K at a time in about 10 days. pm me for more details. Lock, Carbon and RPM