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Entries from July 2010

 One Rainy Evening (Part III)

July 29th, 2010 No Comments

Over the next bunch of orbits I was absolutely card dead. I won the blinds once raising from the button with pocket sixes but that’s about it. I was being not so slowly being blinded off without there being much of anything I could do about it. Amazingly I still snuck onto the final table [...]

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 One Rainy Evening (Part II)

July 27th, 2010 No Comments

Things were less pleasant as the action continued. The best hand I saw in the next few orbits was a pair of snowmen out of position in a hand that the Eurodonk managed to double up on. At the same time, the Ice Queen was showing why I’d feared her as she snapped up [...]

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 Endings… we’ve had a few…

July 26th, 2010 No Comments

So today is officially the day after the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.
Therefore it’s also officially the first time I haven’t attended the festival at all in over ten years, probably fifteen. It’s hard to describe how sad I am about that.
To some people the festival is a fun period of time where they go out to [...]

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 One rainy evening… (part I)

July 25th, 2010 No Comments

***Warning: Heavy Poker Content***
It’s been ages since I’ve played any poker, either live or online, but I had a rainy evening free this week and fired up my laptop for a little fix. Browsing the tables I found a reasonably small scale SNG that like wouldn’t keep me up too late if I went deep. [...]

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The return of Three Quick Hits

July 24th, 2010 No Comments

First off, word on the street is that the upcoming release of Community Season One on DVD will include a short comic book featuring the exploits of in world B-Movie hero Kick-Puncher (the hero whose punches have the powers of kicks) that will also feature scantily clad comic heroines based on certain leading ladies. Sadly [...]

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 A father for us all…

July 23rd, 2010 No Comments

The other day I was at the drugstore trying to choose a birthday card for my team to give to our boss when I noticed a familiar face peeking out from the kids birthday section. The shining silver mouth, the oddly expressive eyes and the almost batman like points of his head were all [...]

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 Soupy Summer

July 16th, 2010 No Comments

Apologies for absence, last school term was hellish. So many blog entries half finished as a major crisis erupted with a project. For those who might still check this site
on occasion, my sincere thanks. Here’s a super awesome recipe or two to get back into the habit.
Some people are of the opinion that soups other [...]

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