Surfergeeks

So yesterday was Father’s Day. Alex was so excited about it he thought he’d get an early start to the day by getting up at 5-freakin’-o’clock in the morning. I could only get him to settle down for 15-20 minute chunks of time. I finally surrendered at about 6:10 and we were up for the day.

Since he’s still rather on the youngish side we didn’t have any real big plans. However, we DID have a couple fairly big poker tournaments to play in so we asked Nikki’s folks if they would like to borrow Alex for the day.

The first thing we did after dropping off Alex was head over to Golden Griddle for their weekend buffet breakfast. Yum yum yum. After that we had to track down a cover for the pool. Hopefully this will stop the animals from puncturing the inflatable air ring around it. Our first stop was Toys ‘R’ Us. We didn’t find any pool covers but we did find a shit load of stuff we’d LOVE to buy for Alex. I soooo can’t wait for him to get older. Hot Wheels and Lego…I can’t wait!

Off to Wal-Mart. Jackpot! Pool cover central. So we scoops up the pool cover and head home with a quick stop at Price Chopper to grab some baby food.

We got home just before 1pm so I head out to the backyard to re-patch the pool and put the cover on. I didn’t get a chance to reinflate the air ring last night and there was a rather large rainstorm. When I heard it coming down, I was hoping that I wouldn’t wake up in the morning and find a completely drained pool. THAT woulda sucked in a BIG way. Fortunately, it doesn’t appear to have lost any water. I’ll reinflate it today and see if it holds.

The first poker tourney was a freeroll at UltimateBet for an entry into their $1million Freeroll in July. This was the monthly qualifier. We had already made our way through the daily qualifier and the weekly qualifier to get to the monthly. Unfortunately, both of us busted out before the entries were handed out.

Next up was the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP) at PokerStars. Big field of 2274 players. Only 54 places offered prizes. Nikki went out 313th and I was VERY shortstacked so I pushed all in with KJs and was called by AQs. He caught his flush and I was out 303rd. While not making the prizes kinda sucked, I was still very happy with how deep in the field that we made it. Most of these players are VERY good players.

So after busting out, we headed back over to Nikki’s folks’ place to pick up Alex. After chatting there for a bit we headed home where we retired to the backyard briefly. Alex played in the sandbox and I dug up some weeds in the backyard. I also scrubbed all the bird crap off of our cars. We then gave Alex a cool bath and tried to put him down for the night. Note the word tried. He wasn’t having any part of it. Maybe it was because he didn’t really get a chance to crawl around the living room for a bit before bed or maybe it was because he was over-tired (since he was awake at 5 and only napped for a total of about 1 hour over the entire day). We ended up bringing him out to the living room so he could play for a bit and finally got him to bed around 9.

We then played in the poker forum league event last night. I started off rather decently but then lost a decent sized pot dropping me down near the bottom of the list. I managed to claw my way back to 3rd and managed to hang in until there were six of us left. Unfortunately, the cards weren’t coming my way and I ended up being down again. I pushed and was called. I lost.

So all-in-all it was a pretty kickass Father’s Day. I know that it’s just the first of many to come and I’m really looking forward to the ones when Alex is old enough that we can actually do things.