I know haven't written much but things have been somewhat ugly in my progress. Well, that's not quite true. I did do a lot, but I've had some setbacks as well. The first of which is poker. From May 6th to May 10th I lost 80% of the profit I had earned since I started this goal back in March. That's a tough week.

tilt is an amazingly tough nut to crack. It's really hard to know when you are just getting unlucky and when you are playing bad. I still don't know for sure but I have noticed that when I lose a lot of money there are some patterns.

1) I tend to try different games, for example if I branch into turbo tournaments or Step tournaments (these are tournaments that don't award cash prizes, but entries into higher buy-in tournaments).

2) I tend to play a lot more than my usual volume.

My regular pattern is to play one "set" of four tournaments simultaneously. This usually takes a little longer than an hour. Ideally I would like to increase this. I would like to be able to play poker, profitably, for several hours a day, but every time I try, my advantage seems to fly out the window. It's possible that this is just variance and I really am just getting unlucky and my seemingly poor performance is simply anecdotal superstition. I might try combating this with a strategy. Tomorrow I think I will try to play three sets during the day with a one hour break in between. Hopefully that will be enough "cool-down" time to let me still play my A-game.

The other unfortunate event is that I hurt my left calf. Not really sure what happened but I started limping. Resting didn't seem to help in fact, it was usually after a rest that it would be at its worst (such as when I woke up in the morning), but if I was walking around for a few minutes i would hardly feel anything. I took last week and this week off from running and it has been better but it's still not 100%. I'll start running again next week, less ambitiously, and we'll see how it goes.

I have been working on a website redesign. Still tweaking the look and feel but I think it'll be a nice change. It's very clean and easily readable.

I have only been to one live baseball game so far. April 28 (lost to florida 4-7)

I *did* got to the Baseball hall of fame on May 2nd. I went with a buddy of mine and honestly, I have to say I had a lot more fun hanging out with him and playing some wiffle ball and HORSE with a basketball hoop we found at the hotel than I did at the museum. It's not that the museum was bad exactly, I'm not sure how I could have made a better one. It just felt a little fake to me. That the heart of baseball is found in a company league or a pickup game than in some corporate sponsored museum. It felt forced and not genuine.

After the hall of fame we went to a casino and I won $150 playing poker, which is nice because I'm broke.

on May 7th I did see a broadway show. I saw Waiting for Godot which was awesome. I'll probably make a separate post about it.