poker, traffic and football

Just a few ramblings before I get to the business of washing my truck, designing a logo and playing some poker.

Poker
I held my first poker night here a few weekends ago. I invited 16 people and by the time all was said and done, two showed up. I even extended my invites to people I didn't think would show up anyway. I was right. Funny, they all said basically the same thing. Sounds like fun, keep me on the invite list. I have to tell you, if I invite you a few times, let's just say THREE, and you're a no-show all three times... right. Off the list. Maybe two! I fared well against a tough player, Wesley. And we taught Brian the mechanics of Texas Hold 'em. He broke even after three games, so I think he was catching on. And I think he had fun, too.

I'd like to start a monthly game and take a rake to send the yearly champion to Tunica for an all expense paid trip to the WSOP satellite for the tournament. I figure the buy in is $100 and the room is about $50, so we could take $20 a month toward the poker champiion prize and then have a year end poker weekend party and use the rest for food and booze. Of course with only three players that would be difficult. I figure a few of us would even pay our own way to Tunica (or wherever)and make it a poker road trip. THAT WOULD MAKE FOR SOME GREAT BLOGGING!

Traffic
Traffic in Atlanta is so awful! It looks like I'll be traveling to the North end of town to work again. I'm excited and bummed at the same time. There's no bigger waste of time than sitting in traffic or sitting at the MARTA station waiting for trains to break down, skip your station, be too crowded, etc...
Someone needs to run for office and fix this mess. New York is a perfect example of how it can work. What are some others?

Football
Spat on. That's how I feel. T.O. spat on D Lo. He might as well have spat on me. I like the sound of the word spat. Funny. I'm still a believer that Atlanta can make the playoffs. And lose in the first round. Mort and Vick both made it into the record books last night. They kept us in the game, The defense kept us in it the first half, but couldn't make the stop to give us a chance to pull it off. Mora said those stupid things last week. I truly believe he was joking, but it wasn't funny. I hate the play calling: 3rd and 17 run, 3rd and 1 run, 4th and 1 pass, 1st and 20 run... just no strategy. Hand-off to Dunn, pitch back to Vick, pass to Dunn for 17 yards... ingenious! Dangerous, but ingenious none the less. Ok, enough football. I'll be back sooner than I was last time. Go Falcons. Carolina and Philly to get in. Hope Philly gets beat by New York today... they should.

Tom Johnson — Graphic Designer — TJ Studio