Day -1: Recovering

Since I'm technically still employed until Monday, this isn't really even day 1 yet.  OK, and I'm a technology geek.

My time off started with a bang.  Last night on my way home my car battery died.  Had to call AAA to get me home.  Looks like I need a new alternator.  Always nice to have big expenses right as you lose your job.  Oh well, maybe it's an excuse to play more poker to earn some extra income.

Today was about recovering from the last couple of weeks.  I haven't been working very hard but work has been emotionally exhausting.  I made a list of projects to work on while it helped me get organized, it also seems a bit overwhelming.  And I decided to use the product I've worked on to see if we can attack these projects in an Agile fashion.  So I organized my work and uploaded all of it into Serena Agile.  In the process I found three really bad bugs.  While finding bugs is normally exciting, it was actually a bit disheartening to see problems in production and to spend my last week working on real problems.  As such, I really haven't been motivated to do much around the house.

So today is about doing dishes, running several loads of laundry, going through the last week of mail (some email too), putting away the stuff I brought home from the office, cleaning out the fridge, and doing some grocery shopping.  But first, I got to sleep in late for the first time in a really long time.  I think I got up about 10:30.

Oh and I made it to gym for the second day in a row.  Good.  And I stepped on a scale for the first time in weeks.  Bad, very bad.  Tomorrow I buy a new scale.

Taking the Summer Off

As many of you who are reading this know, a couple months ago my company decided to close its Bellevue office and laid us all off.  I was part of the transition team that was retained until May 3 to help move our work from Bellevue to Kiev.  While May 3 is technically my last day at Serena, Thursday was my last day in the office and today starts my "summer".

Rather than jump back into another job, I decided to take a break for the summer to work on some projects.  I'm going to try to blog about my day-to-day activities though won't necessarily post daily. One thing I want to do is take an extended trip to Las Vegas though this seems harder and harder to fit in around other plans.

Long time no see

I haven't blogged in quite some time because I haven't played any poker since I got back from Vegas. As it gets to be summer in Seattle my weekends and weeknights have been busy. And with my poker buddy overseas, no one has called to say let's play poker.

But I did play Tuesday night finally. Played the 2-40 spread game at Club Hollywood. I used to love this game an find it easy money. But since Snoqualmie opened I've found the lure of no limit 20 minutes away too enticing to trek to Shoreline very often. The game was just as I remembered that I played well which helped. I won three sizeable pots snapping off bluffs on the river, though a couple were just terrible bluffing spots. In 2.5 hours I more than doubled my buy-in.

With my job done (more on that later) I should be able to play more than once a month going forward.

More of poker and my summer plans soon.