Rak

Sometimes I love my life…

April 9, 2007

Jeff just called me. He’s got the Cubs tickets from his work for today. You know. Opening Day. This necessitated the following IM conversation: Matt: I know the rule is to request days off in advance, but I just came down with “opening day cough” Matt’s Boss: lol Matt: (translation – a ticket for today’s [...]

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It’s official. The Cubs suck the most.

September 6, 2006

Cub Fan, but not a Bud Man Originally uploaded by Matt Stratton. Last night went to the Cubs/Pirates game with Rak, Lippy, Julia, and Erika. Oh, and Chiv, who is visiting from NYC this week. The weather was pretty good – not too chilly, and when it did rain a bit in the 8th inning, [...]

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Yes, but is she hot-swappable?

May 4, 2006

This was the conversation today at lunch. Jeff and I were talking about using Google Calendar, and synchronizing it with our phones, etc. John was laughing at us for making our scheduling lives more complicated. Fat Johnny: I have Lotus Notes at work. And at home, I have my wife. Jeff: Do you have some [...]

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Hold ‘Em recap

May 17, 2004

OK, so I’ll do my best to recap the action, or at least the highlights. We originally had 20 players signed up, but ended up with only 17 showing up. This made for three tables – two of six, and one of five. Random draw put me at a table with a bunch of players [...]

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Hold ‘Em Recap

January 3, 2004

As I mentioned earlier, last night was our second Texas Hold ‘Em tournament. It was really fun. We had 12 people playing – although we added a 13th player at the eleventh hour, which changed things up a bit, but made the first place purse a little sweeter. We started off by having everyone put [...]

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Poker, poker, poker!

January 3, 2004

Just got home from our Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament. I was, as my friend Jeff said, the winningest of the losers. Of course, he was the losingest of the winners. I’ll explain more later when I detail the game. But suffice it to say that I won back my $50 entrance fee, and then made [...]

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