The Winter Olympics and...Poker?

WOOHOO!!! At the time I'm writng this, TEN of Canada's tweny-one medals are GOLD!!! That's two more than the US, who have thirty-four in total!!!

I've been couch-potatoing, watching as much of the coverage as I can. As I'm writing this, I am watching repeat coverage of Canada choking, and ending up with silver in women's curling. But then I remember that we now have TEN gold medals!!! With the possibility of at least four more to come that I can think of off the top of my head - Men's Pursuit in long-track speedskating, four-man bobsleigh, men's hockey, men's curling.

I've been playing a lot of Lord of the Rings Online, levelling up lower-end characters, and playing poker. PokerStars has been having freeroll tournaments for a couple of events, one being a new North American Poker Tour. The problem with freerolls is that the majority don't take them as seriously, and will go all-in with 2-5 off-suit, and then catch a straight. If you get caught up in that and call one of these doughheads, and call them with pocket aces, and get them cracked, it can get pretty frustrating. If you can make through the morons, to the top third of the field, then you get to actually play poker. Then you actually have to think, because the people who are left after the doughhead carnage can actually play, which is why playing poker is clearly a game of skill.

Yeah, yeah, that was really lame, wasn't it. PokerStars is having a new promotion for those people who played in the World Blogger Championsip of Online Poker, and we have to write posts, and put in their sentences in your post somewhere, and a link to PokerStars in the process. Guess which sentence was the mandatory one ? I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. There will be four more....mwah hahahaha.

TTFN,

Union Administrative Committee election

The elections for our Union Administrative Committee were held yesterday. I was nominated to serve as one of the seven Administrative Committee members (re-election for me). The top four vote-getters also serve on the Negotiations committee for our new Collective Agreement (The old one expires at the end of June).

Not only did I get re-elected, but this time I will be on the Negotiations committee. I am glad that I got re-elected, but I'm somewhat apprehensive about what is going to be a very hard round of bargaining, with the budget cuts across campus.

Stay tuned..

TTFN,

C