One of my weaknesses is good food - I can agree to live anywhere (tent, crappy flat, trailer etc) and do almost anything, but I've got to have good food. I refuse to eat some low-grade meat or fast-food hamburgers, or drink cheap wine/champagne, actually I'd rather starve than eat something I don't like and there were certain periods/situations in my life when I didn't eat for days simply because I didn't like the food I was getting. It may sound too fancy and I may look like a fag to you now, but that's the way I am and there is nothing I can do about it. So if I have, say, 100$ in my pocket and have a choice between taking a cab and getting a hamburger or getting a good steak or w/e in a restaurant (average bill for a great meal here is ~65-80$) and going on train (which are pretty dirty in Russia, fwiw), I'll definitely pick the latter option.

The other weakness of mine, which I've almost gotten rid of by now is clothing. I mean, really expensive designer clothing. Thankfully, I'm almost through the period of my life, when I felt obligated to buy every t-shirt, jeans, sweaters or shoes I liked, no matter what the price was (right now I have 1.5k$ jeans in my collection, along with 1k$ hoodie and 700$ t-shirt among all other things, which is fucken ridiculous). Now I've ordered a couple of suits and handmade shoes, that I'm intending to wear on daily basis, since I feel much more comfortable in them, and that'll be it - no more purchases on this front for years, because my wardrobe is overpacked as it is, and I'm not intending to blow another couple of grands on anything. Fuck that. Simplicity is the key. I guess this weakness of mine ended on the very day when I was watching Russia - Canada hockey match (IIHF WC 2009), we wound up getting wasted, and I woke up in one of those designer outfits, covered in vomit. Yay!

That's all I've got for now - been very busy with the site, a lot of interesting things are happening around it!

p.s. couldn't resist to write smth about poker - 20 minutes after the last entry i recovered all the losses, so it's going okay right now, although i'm not playing much at all these days, but my game has definitely improved big time.