Frantic Friday: The Long Time No See Edition.... (NSFW)

Hello dear reader.
Long Time No Frantic Friday!

I honestly had no idea that it'd been so long, since I'd managed to sit down and bust out one of these things for you.

BAD Bammer!

It's been so long I guess, that one good friend actually accused me of losing my


and that hurts, let me tell you.

Well it hasn't been from a lack of great material to work with at all. I've just been so focused on improving my


I guess, I've let a few things slide around here.

Believe me it's no


to say, that things around these parts have been a little more Frantic than usual.

But that is not really a good excuse in my books, to have let you down for so long. So let's see if we can get this sucker back on track here, for at least one more week in a row!

Now I am just a tad out of practice here so let's see,


Ah yes that's right, Frantic Friday's should always contain a fair amount of


That should be easy enough huh?

Let's see what have I been doing of late, that could be considered Frantic Friday worthy?

Well the other night we had an old fashioned get together around here. There were a few friends from town, a few other folks from the big smoke and of course if you know anything about Frantic Fridays at all, there was also the


She's a pre-requisite of any good gathering around here, since she's exactly like an old jean jacket and we all know,


We did the silliest thing that night too! How long has it been since you got together with a group and played Clue? I'd forgotten how much fun that game can be, when you add a few drinks and some fun to the mix!

The amazing thing was, it was like I'd never stopped playing the game! I mean, I nailed the damn solution first try!

LIKE.NAILED.IT!


So obvious.

Let's see, what else?

Oh, my buddy Em was up last weekend. That's always cool! She even started things off on the right... UH.... foot? By recalling our favorite Frantic Friday of all time and blessing me with a


right off the bat!

I <3 my Em!

I tell you, that girl is


Soooooooooo easy on the eyes and have I ever mentioned,


OH, and something hilarious also happened over Em's visit. It seems that Em has a new man in her life right now and supposedly, the guy's an MMA Junkie. Knowing that I love a good fight, Em figured that Peb's would know all about the UFC too. Much to Em's surprise, I guess Peb's shocked her when she explained that she actually knew very little about it.

That wouldn't fly with my Em at all! She was just adamant about giving Peb's the MMA 101.

Well I can tell you dear reader, I was beside myself with laughter at the sight of this little lesson. Particularly at the point where Peb's got Em to


PRICELESS!

Okay, I have to run kids. HUGE weekend planned here in Bedrock!

I'll try not to slack off so much in The Frantic Friday department going forward, I promise. I've been working on some special material for one dedicated to the art of


They say there's a beach in that pic somewhere and yet, I just don't get it!

To say I've become very interested in these things, would be a fairly large understatement.


Don't worry kids, I'll get to the bottom of it!

;)

My sincerest thanks for dropping by....

Stuck in the middle of Baker Street....

For bringing my Peb's two of her all time favourites,
I truly hope you can RIP Gerry.






My sincerest thanks for dropping by....

2010 Resolved....

Like the year itself was for me, this is going to be a little all over the place I'm afraid.

The Blog....

Just 148 posts ALL YEAR!
What an obvious waste of my talent for drivel.
Still managed to squeak over the 50,000 visitors mark though. So I guess there are still a few of you out there, hoping for a bit more of my regular, yet ever useless minutiae.

Very special thanks go out to Otis, Pauly, Al and of course, my Brudder Chako. All far and away my strongest referrers for the year.

Online Poker....

Good lord! Where to begin?
I'll be damned if I have yet to figure out what it's going to take, to break out of this NLHE break even player funk. I mean, seriously?

Here's a perfect one-two punch for you, to sum up the entire year of NLHE.

Hand #41 = All-in on the turn.


Then in Hand #42, I somehow survive the all-in pre-flop.


Yeah, break even baby!

Peb's crushed me on our moolah-made side bet.
(NLHE only)


So embarrassing.

Thankfully though, I still have the STUD guy. My play has been spot on pretty much, allowing me to withdraw a few required funds here and there. You know, for all the frilly and nice stuff one wants to buy his beloved wife on a whim.

Online Blogger games were pretty much a bust for me. I did manage to score one semi-major win back in the BBT5, (did I ever mention THANKS AL!) when I somehow luck sacked my way into the tournament of champions. But all in all, I donated far more often than I cashed in our little shindigs.

Live Poker....

As my favourite show of all time likes to say, "and now for something completely different!"

Live Poker is quite obviously rigged and even more apparently, totally in my favour. That should be good for total card-deadedness for the remainder of my life huh? After running so deep in the 2009 WPBT in what I want to call quite possibly, our deepest field of entrants ever, I really felt good about my play at the live tables. Then to back that up, I started the year off with a bang.

Then in a combination of live Poker and Bloggers at The Mastodon Weekend, I crossed a couple of my must to-do's off the old Bammer-Do list as well.

Then finishing up the year around these parts, I managed to survive the final table.

Work....

I'll put it bluntly, things suck!When it came to busting a nut to get a paycheque, I was only able to get in three months total all year. Just brutal! There's just nothing out there in my field of expertise and despite brudder Riggs enthusiasm about going out on my own and doing some consulting, it takes customers that can actually PAY to make it all work out. I've done my homework and the math, I'll lose my shirt right now.

I'm actually looking at a career change, just not sure what direction though.

Life....

One was taken FAR too early, while I literally held it in my hands.

While sitting around a table with twenty of my twenty-three possible family members in attendance for Christmas Eve Dinner, life as it always does for me, came down to one thing my Peb's had to say. While all of us were expressing our wants and desires for under the tree the next day, she simply said;

"Thankfully, I get one more Christmas with my Dad. Who could want anything more than that?"

Eyes were wiped dry with tissue.
Glasses were raised in toast.
Thoughts turned to Fred and his courage and strength.

Indeed, who could want any more from life than that?

All the best in 2011 my friends and as always,

My sincerest thanks for dropping by....