Diary of a Poker Journeyman - March 19th, 2008
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04:19 pm
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Easing back in
So here's how my life is different than your average guy. For one thing, my work week is offset from the usual, in that my days off are generally Monday and Tuesday, with Sunday frequently being in there. This gives me a weird conception of "weekend," as well as giving me strange blocks of free time for poker, so there's that. Also this unusual version of "weekend" gives me an unusual version of "week." The other thing that's weird is working nights, which, while better suited to my sleeping habits and, generally, overall lazy lifestyle, gives me a lot less useful time than one might think.
In any case, the reason I bring this up is because, now that I've settled back into something of a poker-playing rhythm, I'm now also trying to work out what to do about the poker-blogging rhythm. The way things usually go is that, on my days off, I get up, take my time puttering around at home and taking care of business before I head off to start goofing around at poker. Then, once I hit the games, I generally keep at that until I'm tired, and I head home. When I get home, my brain has turned to goo, and I'm too beat to think about blogging anything. I think to myself, "Eh...I'll get to that after some sleep." But by the time I'm waking up and getting some coffee in me the next "morning" (and by that I mean afternoon), the vividness of my session memories are faded and grainy, and I'm not even sure I remember everything I wanted to talk about. It's usually best to blog when things are fresh in your mind, and that doesn't mean after a night of sleep.
So I figure I have a couple ways to go on this. I could try and put in the extra effort of writing before I hit the sack, while things are still fresh in my mind. What that will most likely mean, though, is maybe cutting the session a bit short, so I still have the time and brainpower to get that done in some kind of coherent fashion before I pass out. I could also go back to trying to take notes actually during the session, just so I have something to go back to later. This often has the side-effect of taking frequent breaks at the table, which I'm not a big fan of, or else looking like a complete nerd and actually taking notes right there at the table, which I'm even less a fan of. We'll see. In any case, something's gotta give, because if today is any example, I'm not going to have a lot of blogging success by going to bed right after a session. :) I put in a pretty significant stay at the tables last night, and I know that when I got home, I was brimming with things to talk about. Now that it's the next day, though, and I'm sitting here at my computer actually typing, I can't think of too much. :)
( Let's see what we got )
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