The Great Pretender

Let’s just say that I am not going to get my old job back. While it’s possible I could see some work from them, I am not even crossing my fingers anymore let alone holding my breath. I had lunch with Omar and Mario today, and we discussed the whole mess and how similar things are looking now for the new company as they did 2 years ago for Rovia. While I wouldn’t mind some income, I think that any work from them would be more temporary than Rovia ever was.

So where does that leave me? I have enough money to pay rent next month, and maybe even the month after… If I can’t find any real work, I am either going to have to pick up some bogus job (Retail, etc) to pay the bills or retreat back to New Jersey. I know which option my family wants, but I also know that if my desire to stay in Boston was strong before, it is fierce now that Corinna is in the picture. I am going to figure something out, real fucking soon now. I thought yesterday’s setback would have really affected me badly (which it did until C-note came over for a bit of a cheer-up), but now I feel it has only strenghtened my resolve. Today I applied for a sick number of jobs, including sysadmin stuff, which I never gave much thought to before. Don’t tell the prospective employers, but these would obviously be temporary and evacuated ASAP, but it is just another way to pay the bills. Anyway, enough of that… I am OD’ed on serious thought for today.

I bought Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold’em awhile ago from some online poker shop… It’s a great book, but what’s interesting is that it came with a coupon for \$10 at 24 Hour Poker. I cashed the coupon in and started playing… It took me awhile to do it (since the site is mainly european and isn’t very busy during US hours), but I worked my bankroll up to the point where I had \$50. This was my goal because I wanted to buy in at Poker Stars, the site that Rory and Adam play on all the time (and PokerStars [PS] has a minimum \$50 buyin). So as soon as I could I cashed out from 24hPoker and moved over to PS.

Last night I sat down for a Sit-and-Go tournament (NL Hold’em, 9 person, \$5 buy-in) and came in first, the 1st place prize was \$22.50. I then went over to the \$1/\$2 Limit Hold’em tables and had an amazing night. I ended up about \$100 by the end of the night, and decided to cash some money out to make up for the bit I lost this weekend at Foxwoods. That little \$10 coupon has really turned out to be a windfall, eh? Hell, if I can keep this up perhaps I will just go professional. :)