People,

Last night we hit the basement to put some more polish on the diamond that is our New Year's to be rock spectacular. It's going to be sweet, I tell ya.

Anywho, other than that there isn't too much going on. I am steadily trying my sanity with my online poker playing. It wouldn't be so bad if I only played for a short time, but I end up playing far too long and go on what players call "tilt." Tilt is where you get so mad about taking a bad beat or by your inability to beat inferior players that you literally will bet on anything. This is, in a nutshell, a perfect primer on how to lose at gambling. At one point yesterday, if you had offered me ten dollars to hit myself in the head with a hammer, betting on my ability to survive, I would have taken you up on it...probably on the me-not-surviving side.

Luckily, I had to quit the game to go to band practice. And later on I won all my loot back, which was sweet, but there is a lesson learned - Tilt is not just for pinball anymore. Dag.