Yesterday we found two big spiders in our house:



First we thought it might be the brown recluse but it looks like it is a huntsmanspider.
Which is alot better since the brown recluse apparently has some nasty venom. (search google for their bites, to gross to post them in the blog).

In other news:
Earlier this week I qualified for a freeroll but that started at 11 am, and I woke up at 12:20. Finally arriving at the table at 12:30 I only had 45 chips left. The blinds were 100/200 and there was a 25 ante. If I arrived one minute later I would've been out, however:



Unfortunately it is in london next month and I can't make it cuz I'm currently in Mexico but have found a solution for it.

Since it's friday it's time to watch the new jersey shore and futurama episodes!
Robin out.

Not much going on here... mostly spending time with the GF, watching movies, playing poker and basically relaxing.

The plan was to go running every day but it's so hot outside that I got kindof discouraged to do it... So I'll just have to eat healthier I guess...

Also watching my fair share of TV-shows and am very happy with the new season of Futurama:


First few episodes where okish but the last few have been very very good imo!

For the people that watched better off ted, the last two episodes that weren't released are being released (one this week, one next week) and it reminded me on how funny that show can be. This weeks ep is really good!


Further plans for this month are the same as it was for the beginning. Just keep playing some poker, spending time with the GF and relaxing every day .

I do miss vegas more then I thought because this year I really had a great time and am seriously considering spending lots more time there. More on that later.

For now.
Robin out

It took us about 25 hours of driving and going twice the allowed speed on the mexican highway to get to la paz. But we're finally here! It's good to finally be here although I will for sure miss vegas!

Already had my first taco's (last time I had about 100 in one month ops: )
The trip went fairly smooth, got into some traffic going out of Las Vegas but we did great for military stops, could just keep going at every 6 of them (sometimes you have to get out and unpack everything to show you're not carrying drugs, which is just very annoying).

Also got pulled over going 140 in an 80 zone, however his radar gun was broken so he told me I should slow down a little Sofar 2/2 of getting pulled over and not getting a ticket!

Robin out.

My time in Vegas is almost up.
This year was definately alot more relaxed and doing nothing most of the days. I really loved our house and enjoyed the housemates very much. Was my first year with a licence in vegas, got pulled over for the first time also (no ticket! yay). All in all it was a great vegas experience again and it might've been my favorite sofar.

Been to lots of movies:
- Predators (terrible)
- Get him to the greek (decently funny, would recommend for easy laughing)
- Despicable me (not so good, to much geared towards children)
- Inception (Very good and entertaining, definately recommend!)
- Sorcerer's apprentice (predictable, one decent scene from 'fantasia', ending kindof meh)
- Toy Story 3 (only saw part of TS1 and didn't see TS2, and still enjoyed this movie alot. Would recommend esp if you've seen the other parts)
- Salt (terrible movie, hated it throughout, massive plotholes, nothing good here)
- Dinner for Schmucks (better then expected, enjoyed alot, recommend )

Rewatched the show: Arrested Development. Definately one of the smarter comedies out there!
Played alot of online poker (60K hands, which might be the most I've ever played.Things went well at the beginning, but broke even the last 30K hands, mostly because of 5/10 and 10/20 )

Pokerplans for Mexico:
- Try to work on my game again, put more time into studying and keep playing lots of pokers. Want to get 60K hands again and possibly more!
- Play more HU
- Play some PLO

HealthPlans for Mexico:
- Lose the 15 pounds I've gained since the last time I was in Mexico
- Go running every day or every other day (gotta buy running shoes)
- Eat healthier
- Still eat more taco's then is good for me

Plans for after Mexico:
Really really don't know. After traveling for the first 4,5 months I was sure I wanted to spend lots of time at home after that but after being in vegas for a month I enjoy living in a pokerhouse very much.
I miss my roommates/parents and playing squash alot but other then that I really like living in the US/mexico and really have no idea what is going to happen after mexico.

Robin out.

Since there was so much discussion on the entire topic already there was something that came up that was not part of the options and I've heard many many different things on this already.

I feel like that some people are not allowed to even use the toilet but ok:


So some more things came up

Do you put toiletpaper in the toilet before using it?

I never do this, I don't like wasting toiletpaper like this when it never splashes for me... I don't know what kindof propulsion power some people have though....

How should you hang the toilet paper roll?

Lots of people feel that it should be like this:


However I really really have no preference and feel like people who care about this are toiletnits...
But still I guess I should put it up here anyway.

Do you re-use the same paper for a second wipe?

This will definately be the most discussed out this batch. Because again I think it's where people are almost 50/50 on it.

What do you do while taking a dump
I enjoy reading magazines on the toilet, which usually extents my toiletstay. Recently I've been playing lots of games on my iphone... but when I have nothing I feel like it's almost not worth going to the toilet....

Robin out.

ps: This will be the last toilet-related update for a while...

This blog may contain some inappropriate toilet information. Be warned.


I think that as a house we've decided that I'm both the best singer and best whistler of the house. Whenever I'm listening to music I just can't control myself and I let the music take over. I get many complements on my excellent whistling. I do think my singing can use some improvement but I'm fairly satisfied to where it is right now.

This song is great to sing along with


Another thing that has come up in the house is bathroom behavior. It turns out that our house is very divided in almost everything you can do on the toilet and people were very surprised to hear that there is a different way of doing things then their own way.

Part 1: Do you sit or stand while wiping?

My thoughts on this are:



What is amazing that our house is almost 50/50 divided on whether they sit or stand. And here is also where comes great discussion, because standers don't see how you can possibly sit, and sitters don't understand how you can possibly ever stand. I have been both and can understand both sites, however, most people are baffled by the other option.


Part 2: Do you look on the toilet paper to see if you're done?

Again a big division on this, (this is also part of the discussion on how blind people know if they are done wiping. Here I don't understand how you can not look to see if you're done. You don't even have to look every time, but then just the last one. However the non-lookers claim they just know when they're done (friction wise).


Part 3: How many squares of toiletpaper do you use per wipe?


Assuming double ply toiletpaper our house ranges from using 2 squares up to 8!! squares per single wipe! while most people will fold the toilet paper once/twice before using there are apparently also people who sort of mash it into a ball before wiping....


All in all it is very surprising how there are so many ways to do this with everyone thinking their own method is vastly superiour to all the other options. I guess it is a subject nobody ever talks about and everyone just assumes everyone does it the same...


Let me end this blogupdate with saying that if you haven't seen it you should probably go and see inception.


Robin out

I've been lacking pretty bad with updates, mostly because I've been playing lots of poker and just enjoying vegas very much!

We went bowling yesterday and I won a bunch of bowlingpropbets (also lots my fair share, it is pretty hard to bowl strikes with your left hand)... Ended up bowling a 161 and 174 which was very good for me!

Every day we go out to dinner, or get lunch somewhere and today we had to go to the walmart because we were out of a lot of things, most importantly water... which we seem to drink an insane amount of!

So while we're walking down the isles Matt comes up with the great idea for Denny (the_end) to win some of his money back that he lost flipping (he lost 5 coinflips in a row while martingaling Matt). He wants to slap him with a frozen Salmon...

Eventually Patrick (beans) ended up smaking Denny on the ass!




Matt also has video of this which should be uploaded later today or tomorrow and the sound from the smack makes you shiver!

The looks from the other people in the supermarket was priceless!

Robin out.

Arrived safe and sound in vegas!
Will give longer TR later but had to post about me just losing a sick bet at spinney balsies!

I got 100 to 1 to make a shot for $100. (so if I made it I would play the ME for $10K)

Unfortunately I missed. The goal was to hit the ball like this:


I have to admit I wasn't even close to making the shot but I couldn't resist taking the bet getting those odds!

Will give a more thorough update of vegas later!
Robin out

I'm leaving for Vegas on Tuesday! Time always flies and Vegas is already around the corner!

Luckily I did manage to get my drivers Licence:


So now I can drive around in vegas/mexico and not get into that much trouble

Have not done much the last few weeks except breaking even with poker and watching tv shows.
I finished Community (decent), Archer (can be awesome), BattleStar Galactica (that took the most time obviously, found it actually a pretty good show although the final season was not that great imo.)

Going to start in Vegas with probably Sopranos or the Wire...
This year I'm going to try and NOT gain 13 pounds in a month of vegas...

Robin out.

Since I watch so much tv I keep on hitting moments where I have no clue on what to watch now.
I decided to make a list of what I've watched in the last couple of years and possibly people have some recommendations for me what to watch next.

COMEDY
- It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (consider this to be the best show I've ever seen)
- Curb Your Enthousiasm (Gold Jerry! Gold! I still like Larry David on tv!)
- Scrubs (always enjoyed this very much, season 6,7,9 were not so good though)
- Friends (classic by now, but seen it to often now)
- How I Met Your Mother (first 4 seasons were very solid, last one not so much)
- The Big Bang Theory (Again pretty solid show which has very few weak episodes)
- Two and a Half Men (starting to slip, don't think it will work without charlie next season)
- Modern Family (Solid new show)
- Cougar Town (kindof meh, has some good moments but usually pretty predictable)
- Coupling UK (probably favorite UK show I've seen, esp first 3 seasons)
- Office US (getting weaker and weaker each year...)
- Better Off Ted (Had some very solid episodes and it is ashame it got cancelled!)
- Arrested Development (Pretty decent show, don't love it as much as many other people do though)
- Entourage (Definately Entertaining and worth the watch!)
- SeinFeld (Still pretty funny, except the stupid Jerry sketches at the beginning of the ep)
- Married with Children (Can still enjoy this but will admit that it might be a little outdated now)
- King of Queens (Okish, if you have nothing better to do you can watch this)
- Californication (Pretty solid but has some weak episodes from time to time.)
- 30 Rock (Never liked this at all, quit 6 eps in)
- Parks & Rec (same as 30 rock, quit 4 eps in)
- The Life and Times of Tim (Pretty entertaining, best moment in show: s02e04 at 19:50)
- Futurama (Amazing show, looking forward to the restart of this show!!)
- Simpsons (very solid from season 2 till 12, after that downhill and now almost unwatchable)
- South Park (Has very hit and miss episodes in my opinion, overall decently good)
- Family Guy (Same as south park, but overall pretty good to see it all)
- Hank (horrible, thank god it's cancelled)
- King Of The Hill (overall more bad then good eps, but can have its moments)
- Red Dwarf (Meh, if there is nothing better to watch it's ok to leave on)
- Worst Week (not particularly funny, quit about 10 eps in)
- Reno 911 (Can be very funny, or very lame)
- 3rd Rock From the Sun (really like this show, dick is amazing, getting slowly outdated)

SCI FI
- V 2010 (Remake of the old V, annoying plotholes, not great acting, but still watch it for some reason)
- Fringe (Very slow start but after get through that it becomes pretty interesting! storyline eps are amazing while the standalone eps usually are not very good)
- Lost (Very dissapointing ending but I did enjoy the first 5 seasons, with season 2 being very good! (unfortunately I will not rewatch this ever because of how they ended it)
- Stargate SG1 (original stargate, somewhat outdated by now but I can still enjoy it)
- Stargate Atlantis (Started of pretty good but seem to have run out of ideas at the end)
- Stargate Universe (newest stargate, unsure about sofar, not many relatable chars, might turn out to be good)
- Startrek Voyager (only Startrek I've watched and enjoyed it more then I should have I think)
- FlashForward (Horrible from the start and got even worse... luckily cancelled!)
- Masters of Science Fiction (very solid first episode, downhill after that)
- Heroes (Very fun first season, after that downhill, just imagine it got cancelled after season 1 and you should be good!)
- 4400 (started of great, thought they could've done more with the show. Unfortunately cancelled)
- FireFly (WHYYY did you get cancelled? )

ACTION
- Breaking Bad (Pretty good, only problem is that I have no characters I like, although Walter is ok)
- Prison Break (Very good first season, that is where they should've stopped, Season 4 was horrible)
- 24 (very good first seasons, season 7 was ridiculously dumb, haven't seen 8 yet)
- Veronica Mars (Very good show w/ Kristen Bell, def worth the watch!)
- Lie To Me (Very fun first season, but they seem to be out of ideas and show got stale in season 2)
- OZ (prety hard prison show.)
- Band of Brothers (watch this about once a year)
- The Shield (possibly one of the best Action shows ever created)
- Dexter (very good show (season 3 was not that good though), can't wait for seson 5!)
- Jericho (liked this very much, unfortunately cancelled halfway through season 2)

ANIME
- Death Note(one of the better shows I've seen, although they should've stopped about 15 eps earlier)
- Rurouni Kenshin (Decent, but more about char development then action)
- Naruto/Naruto Shippuuden (Just one of those shows you watch every week)
- Bleach (see Naruto)
- Hajime No Ippo (Boxing Anime which is surprisingly good and fun to watch! New eps coming this year)
- The Golden Boy (only 6 eps but all very very funny)
- Berserk (I enjoyed this to the part where the Anime stopped and it only continued in Manga)
- Ghost (just started to like this when no new eps came out)
- Yu-Gi-Oh (how dumb this show might be, I enjoyed it...)
- Avatar (meh, didn't really like this)


MISC
- Survivor (. At the top of my alltime favorite shows, the whole concept appeals to me alot and after 20 seasons I still love it, seen each season at least twice)
- Desperate HouseWifes (only seen first two seasons and was ok but not great)
- Gossip Girl (meh, characters never develop and looks like regardless of what happens the characters reset at the next episode/arch)
- Jersey Shore (classic)
- Glee (not my type of show, quit 8 eps in)
- Survivorman (very entertaining show on how to survive)
- I shouldn't be alive (very realisticly made episodes)

What Now?
I don't know what to watch next, have the following shows lined up/downloaded:
Battlestar Galactica, Community, Treme

But I need more recommendations for after I'm done with those/ I don't like those.
I'm considering the following shows:
Eureka, The Wire (couldn't get into it a year back), Mad Men

But I'm open to anything at this time... since it looks like I watch way way way to much tv

Robin out.