Rowebote's Ramblings

Carolina Tailgate

2006-09-19T06:30:00.000-07:00

Pictures are posted for the Carolina tailgate. Pic can be found HERE. I was going to write something about it but you are getting the Reader's Digest version. Got down to the Rapid Park lot around 6:30 with the wife, got parked and started setting up. Saw Dave pull in around 6:45, watched him drive around and not find us. He parked by the entrance so we watched him sit there for 20 minutes

Dance Magazine?!?

2006-09-18T11:50:00.000-07:00

So I'm at the Viking game yesterday. I might have been a little drunk since I started tailgating at the usual 6:30 AM. Anyway, the four seats next to my seats are corporate seats that some company in Rochester owns. I don't think in the last 4 years that I have ever seen the same people in those seats. Yesterday there is a girl that appeared to be 11 or 12 sitting next to my wife in one of

Motorcycle for Sale

2006-09-15T12:27:00.000-07:00

If you know of anyone in the Twin Cities area looking for a motorcycle, I'm trying to sell mine. Details are below. I'm not quitting riding, I just want to get a new bike. This one has served me well but I want to get a new 2007 HD Softail Custom. It's the bike I've wanted since I was young and HD finally brought them back. That and HD now uas a 96 ci motor instead of the 88 and a 6 speed

Up-Downs @ 34 = Bad Idear

2006-09-12T10:47:00.000-07:00

The wife and I are exercising this morning, following some aerobic/cardio routine thing. We get to this part that we do "fast feet" This is bascially running in place real fast. You move your feet as fast as you can. This reminded me of the old high school football "exercise" called Up-Downs. With up=downs, you move your feet as fast as you can until some signal from

Mead is Compleat

2006-09-05T07:52:00.000-07:00

If you forgot, I made my first batch of mead a little over a year ago. I've been "bulk aging" it for a while now. Bulk Aging = too lazy to bottle. Well, I finally bottled it over the long weekend. It's been a year since I first started this batch. As you can see, it came out looking real good. I don't know if I'm totally enamored with the flavor though. I think it's a little too sweet. I did brew

BWCAW Trip

2006-08-01T06:00:00.000-07:00

Last week I finally got back to the BWCAW (Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness). It's been five years since I have been up there which is way too long. My brother was not able to go until his boys were old enough to go along. Well, I think it probably should have been a couple of more years before my nephews made the trip. They did well but are still too young to really enjoy it. The trip was

I Quit Smoking

2006-08-01T05:56:00.000-07:00

On July 10th I quit smoking. things are going well with it. I'm using the patch and that certainly is helping. Anyway, here are the propoganda numbers from http://quitplan.quitnet.com. I guess the biggest number to me is the 403 cigarettes not smoked. Makes me realize how much I used to smoke.Your Quit Date is: 7/9/2006 10:30:00 PMTime Smoke-Free: 22 days, 9 hours, 23 minutes and 57

Live Play - 1/13 & 11/55

2006-06-13T06:22:00.000-07:00

Friday was a special installment of our home game. We had a special guest from out of town so we scheduled an extra game so that the famous j0hngalt (Lance) could play. He was in town from Iowa for work so what better reason to have a poker game? Lance played well and finished third and I finished 1st for $60 from a $10 buy-in. This game isn't really for the money, it's for the friendly

Si Se Puede!

2006-06-12T08:49:00.000-07:00

Mexico won it's first gaem in the World Cup on Sunday beating Iran 3-1. I actually watched this game. Since my wife is from Mexico she wanted to watch the match so being the good husband I am, I watched it with her. Watching soccer was slightly better than the alternative of doing some housework or chores. Iran kept the game tight but two quick goals by Mexico midway through the second half

Semi Truck > Grand Prix

2006-05-11T07:13:00.000-07:00

So after not posting for a couple of month's again I return. Of course this is not a poker related post so stop now if you are here for poker. I'm sure you've seen some lines in my posts or other people's post like KK < 72o. I've usually used these to indicate that my pocket Kings got beat by the much better hadn or 72 offsuit. Well the semi truck in this case is definatly the favorite so I can't

Congrats to TheOSU!

2006-02-28T08:21:00.000-08:00

No, this is not to congratulate anything Ohio State has done, this is to congratulate THEOSU on winning a seat to the WSOP Main Event through Full Tilt. Now we all look forward to a better finish this year. He's got the game to do well. I'm hoping several more of my poker friends will win seats as well.Personally I will not be attempting to qualify for a WSOP a lot. While I'd like to win a

Out First Again

2006-02-27T07:02:00.000-08:00

Friday was my turn to host the home game. Luckily I won't have to host for another six weeks as we have a three person rotation. Lucky you ask? Why yes. Apparently I am destined to bust out first when I host the game. Twice in a row now I have busted out first in my own home game. Sort of irritating. I'm not overly surprised by it since the competition is pretty darn good for a home game.

Full Tilt Double Stack

2006-02-22T05:06:00.000-08:00

Ok, less than four hours sleep=suck. Winning $833 for a second place finish does not suck! The double stack tournament is a $10+1 on Full Tilt where you start with 3000 in chips instead of 1500. The only buy-in for this amount that I have seen is the 10+1. That doesn't mean that there aren't more, just that is all I have seen. I like this structure as it gives you more opportunities to play some

Not a good night

2006-01-20T05:46:00.000-08:00

Well, it was bound to happen. I've been running well at the 2/4 limit tables lately. Last night that came to an end. I lost about $70. A combination of poor hands, an extremely loose table and most importantly, me playing poorly all combined to take my money last night. I really wasn't playing well last night at limit and should have recognized this sooner and not played. I got down a little

Wild!

2006-01-19T07:10:00.000-08:00

My wife got tickets through her work to last nights Minnesota Wild game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Wild have never beaton the Leafs, well until last night when Minnesota won 5-3 in regulation. Hockey is such a fun sport to watch. It's fun on TV but the live action is much better. Hockey while fun on TV doesn't convey the speed of the game well or all the action that is always taking

Patience

2006-01-18T07:16:00.000-08:00

I played last night in the PSO $1800 added event last night to see how I was doing when not doing a lesson. Well, I played horribly. I was trying to do too much stuff early on. The reason for this is not that I have loosened up because of the lessons but because I was just way to impatient. I wasn't paying attention and not picking good spots. I don't know if it's because the event is for

Tuesday

2006-01-17T11:31:00.000-08:00

Not much poker over the weekend. I had the joy of busting out first in my own home event. I had the completely wrong read on a guy and I played the hand terribly. Oh well, that gave me a chance to drink some beer. I haven't played a lot of SnGs on PSO in a while. I figure the time was better spent playing for real money. However the other night I needed a little ego boost and to blow off

Early Bust and Limit HE

2006-01-12T13:46:00.000-08:00

I played a 6000 starting chip tournament last night on PSO. I busted out first which hasn't happened in a long time. Still doing lessons so I'll use that as my excuse. While trying to do the lesson I was making moves on 3 of the first 4 hands. Oh well, I definitly would not have played this hands the same way back to back had I not been doing the lesson. While making moves on weak players/

Tidbits

2006-01-11T07:10:00.000-08:00

Congratulations for www.dakotapokerleague.com and www.mnpokerleague.com founder, Brook Lyter, for taking second in Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure for a payday of $681,500. Sharla Lehrmann from www.pokerpages.com details the action very nicely over on her blog.Mike Tomlin was officially named defensive coordinator for your Minnesota Vikings. Details and interview here.Yeah, not much to say

No More Free Poker

2006-01-10T10:53:00.000-08:00

Well, I stopped by the bar I used to play poker in. They have supposedly stopped their association with mnpokerleague.com so I probably won't be playing in anymore bar tournaments except on a rare occasion. The good thing about the mnpokerleague was the possibility of winning a seat to the WSOP. Without that, there's not much reason to spend time playing bar poker in Minnesota. I'll keep an

Random Thoughts

2006-01-09T05:55:00.000-08:00

Congrats to PanRains on winning the Winners Choice event on FT. His brother, TheOSU and him are making quite the poker family! WTG!In a class move new Vikings head coach Brad Childress fired most of the current coaching staff by phone over the weekend. While he had said that he would talk to them all on Wednesday I guess he didn't have the balls to talk to them in person to let them know they

I Win!!

2006-01-07T18:00:00.000-08:00

So since I needed some practice at 1500 TC tournies and work on my mid stack play I decided to play a $10+1 at FT today since I couldnt find anything on PSO to play. Well, 4.5 hours later I win it!! First out of 252 for $655!I didn't play great but I played good today. I'll admit I got lucky a few times too. I saw a lot more hands early on. I hit a full house that got paid off when I limped

Your new head coach is...

2006-01-06T05:29:00.000-08:00

Brad Childress. Following in the foot steps of Norm Van Broklin, Bud Grant, Les Steckel, Jerry Burns, Denny Green and Mike Tice. Hopefully Brad bwill be more like Bud and nothing like Les. I really don't know a lot about Coach Childress so I'm not sure how I feel about it. He's coming from Andy Reid's organization which is a good thing. He didn't make the play calls as OC in Philly which is

Its' a new year

2006-01-05T06:06:00.000-08:00

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. If you celebrate something else I hope that was good for you too.I found out that in order for the mobile blog to work, you need some signal strength on your cell phone. In the middle of the woods I wasn't getting one so no mobile updates during the season. If I went and stood in the middle of this one field, then I got a signal but I

Getting Ready

2005-11-14T07:12:00.000-08:00

I am starting to get things ready for deer season. The gun has been sighted in for a long time and I was able to get a little trigger time in the offseason. Not as much in years past but I'm confident in my gun. If I miss it won't be because my rifle failed me, it will be all my fault. I picked up the fifth wheel Saturday. For some reason I couldn't get the slideout to work so I spent some