Jason Oakley : The life of an Aussie geek!

Tonight I came 16th in Texas Hold’em Poker at the local club.  I went out on JJ and the person to my left had QQ and the one to the left of him had KK. ARRRGHHH! Oh well. It was still a fun night To make it that far was worth it.

Then, I came 10th.  You see, once they only have 9 people left at the table, they pick a WILD CARD. That is, they have a machine which picks a random number. If it’s your number, you go back in with another $2,000 to try and win again. Well, I sat down again at the big final table and got AJ both of clubs, so I went all-in (bet all my chips). Since $2,000 was really nothing compared to the other giant piles of chips on the table, people called my bet. I didn’t get any other cards to go with it, so basically had Ace high. Not enough other clubs to make a flush either. D’oh! Ah well. It was nice to be back in the game again

There was one guy driving everyone at our table crazy. He’d get dealt his two cards and bet on them a few times before looking at them. He’d even call people when they went all-in and still beat them! The strategy didn’t work for long even though he was chip leader for a while. He went all-in a few too many times and walked off not too long after the half-time break.

Had a great weekend with Sienna again. We went shopping yesterday. I got a few things here and there. In particular, some photo paper for my printer so I can print out some nice photos to put in an album. I also picked up a clock radio for the kitchen since I only had a pissy little portable radio which was static-y (ask Chris ). Anyhoo, I got it home and it didn’t work properly. The volume switch was really dodgy. You could set a volume then sit down for 20 minutes and it’d go off. Just touching the volume switch would put it back on again. I took it back and got there about 4:53pm and Coles was closing at 5pm, so I just made it. I got a refund and came home.  Today I checked a couple of places but they didn’t have anything nice and I’d already looked in KMart and Target and Crazy Clarks but didn’t find what I wanted for the right price. In the end, I decided to move my bedroom clock radio into the kitchen since I don’t listen to it much in the bedroom anyway and put the kitchen clock in the bedroom so I can see the time.  Saved $14.50+ ($14.50 was the broken radio’s price). Sweet.

Today we went to find a colour ink cartridge for my printer. I had purchased a new Photo quality cartridge and my low quality colour cartridge had run out. But even if you have a full Photo one, it doesn’t have any yellow in it, so all my photos came out blue/red. It turns out you still need a full colour cartridge to print the full colour range!! All the manual and the Canon website says “Make sure if your cartridge runs out you leave it in or the printer won’t print anything if one slot is empty”. Nothing about needing both for photos. The only clue is you can select “Colour only” or “Colour and Photo” inks when printing.  I drove out west along the motorway and found the local computer markets were on today. I had thought they’d been on last weekend. So, we went in and I got a colour cartridge for $35. Bargain! Sienna wanted a BBQ’d sausage on a slice of bread when we came out so I got her that. Then we went to The Warehouse and she found a little watering can she liked (a kids one) and it was only $1.50 so I thought I may as well get it for her. She loves to help me water the flowers in the front garden anyway. I did already have a watering can but it’s a tad large for her.

I found a couple of songs I like on iTunes. A couple weeks ago I bought one of those iTunes vouchers from Coles shopping centre.

I found Stacie Orrico’s “I’m not missing you” and Nickelback’s “Savin’ me”. I might check for Sugababe’s song below some time in the future. Takes a while to download them via dialup

Had a great game of poker tonight. I didn’t come first. In fact, my friends from the final table last week and I all got out relatively early.

I’m making some good friends there, though. Once you see the same people over and over you can open up the conversation at the table fairly easily and have a good night including calling someone chicken and making the ‘brawk brawk’ noise while flapping elbows like wings (I wouldn’t do that! She only had a 2 & a 3 anyway lol! She won the night anyhow so her husband was cheering with his bottle of rum.) and just generally being silly.

It’s always good even just for a nice night out.

Sienna has been sick the last few days so I hope she’s feeling better now. She had an ear infection and had to go back on antibiotics. It seems like she’s been on them most months of this year. That’s the problem with mixing with other kids when your immune system is still growing.  She went back to kindy again so here’s hoping.  I get to pick her up tomorrow night again, so I definitely can’t wait for that! It’s always so good to see her She brightens up my weekends enormously.
Mum was on TV a couple of times tonight due to having some of her poetry in a book. I think she read some out and also talked a bit and Channel 3 and 7 were there filming so she made sure she didn’t miss it. Unfortunately, I was at poker by the time I knew she would be on or I would have taped the news. Then again, news from where they live may not make it all the way up here.

For the first time ever I made the final table. I came 6th out of all. There was 8 tables of 10 players each so I’m pretty damn happy about that as you can imagine!

All those smileys will slow your browser’s rendering down hahahha

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