A new year is starting in few minutes and here I am spending yet another holiday at work blogging when I should be out getting hammered (or here actually working). Resolutions are lame so I'll spare you. I'm looking forward to the new year.
I will finally pay off my credit card this coming year. Whew it's going to be nice to be back in black. It's been about 7 years since I haven't had to send Visa money. Just the thought of being in the green brings relief to my shoulders.
I have a chance to win a seat in the WSOP. My wife has so much faith in my poker skills that she wants to try to raise the money for me to play even if I don't win the seat. If I go, I figure I have a 1 in 8000 chance of being a millionaire. It doesn't sound like very good odds but it's a hell of a lot better than the lottery. Plus there is actual skill involved not just blind luck.
I feel that my luck is going to change for the better this year. There have been some serious career problems I've had to deal with the past three years. The best analogy I can give for what happened is this... Imagine your in school and you take a final exam. You know your stuff and ace the test. You proudly march up to your teacher and turn in your work and wait for the A+ to come back. When it comes time to see your grade the teacher tells you that you have failed the test as well as the class. You ask to see the teacher to show you the test and he says he has thrown the results away. Now just insert "boss" where you see "teacher" and "job" where you see "class" and you get what happened. The good news is that it isn't over yet. If everything works out my way, it will be almost as good as winning the WSOP.
Happy New Year! I hope you have as much to look forward to as I do.
I will finally pay off my credit card this coming year. Whew it's going to be nice to be back in black. It's been about 7 years since I haven't had to send Visa money. Just the thought of being in the green brings relief to my shoulders.
I have a chance to win a seat in the WSOP. My wife has so much faith in my poker skills that she wants to try to raise the money for me to play even if I don't win the seat. If I go, I figure I have a 1 in 8000 chance of being a millionaire. It doesn't sound like very good odds but it's a hell of a lot better than the lottery. Plus there is actual skill involved not just blind luck.
I feel that my luck is going to change for the better this year. There have been some serious career problems I've had to deal with the past three years. The best analogy I can give for what happened is this... Imagine your in school and you take a final exam. You know your stuff and ace the test. You proudly march up to your teacher and turn in your work and wait for the A+ to come back. When it comes time to see your grade the teacher tells you that you have failed the test as well as the class. You ask to see the teacher to show you the test and he says he has thrown the results away. Now just insert "boss" where you see "teacher" and "job" where you see "class" and you get what happened. The good news is that it isn't over yet. If everything works out my way, it will be almost as good as winning the WSOP.
Happy New Year! I hope you have as much to look forward to as I do.
posted by Glenn at 11:19 PM
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