Yesterday we all got up early and took Dad fishing. Pretty much every vacation my family ever took was a camping trip. We didn't get to do much fishing before typhoon style storms hit. We literally went from the sun starting to peek through the clouds, to lightning, thunder and rain coming in sideways in the span of twenty five minutes. We'll get some time to fish when we go to Montana at the end of the month for the family reunion though, so it'll work out. Half the fun for him is getting the gear out and playing with it anyway. We went home, got Mom outta bed and got breakfast.

TJ came back to the states last week too so we got to hang out and play cards for the first time this year pretty much on Friday. He was in Thailand for the last six months or so for his job. We stayed up pretty much all night playing cards. Good times.

Over all good weekend, but not much sleep. Add to that having to come in early this morning and I'm flagging some. Plus the Cubs and the Sox play next weekend, so I'm working all next weekend so not much catchup there. Cubs Sox is always a very busy weekend. Sunday is a night game though, so I can sleep in. Night games during the weekend can get ugly.

Weekend after that family reunion.

It's world series of poker time again. Another year I won't be going. Not that big a deal, it's not like I made an effort to qualify but one year I'd really like to go though. What is pretty cool though is that ESPN has been broadcasting some of the final tables live. Daniel Negreanu, one of my favorite players and the owner of the poker website I spend time on won a bracelet last week and getting to watch that was pretty cool. Unlike watching poker on tv they obviously don't show the cards, because it's live and could still effect things some how. It gives a different look for studying things. He's in another tonight if I get back from Jitz in time I'm probably going to check it out some.