Buff in 6 weeks???

Ok, maybe not. But this weekend, we ended up buying the Bowflex at Costco. I always feel retarded when I pull up with a convertible and I ask them to throw this gigantic box in the back seat with my top down since that's the only way I could take it home. Fortunately, it was like 70 degrees on Saturday so I could justify having the top down. The weather recently has been crazy. It's like mid January and I could walk around comfortably in shorts and t-shirt. It's nice but I wouldn't mind seeing some snow before the winter is done.

Well, the Bowflex is very intimidating to put together. It comes in this box that's probably about 3ft x 6ft and maybe a foot high. There are all these random looking parts and a huge booklet which is the assembly manual. Well, me being who I am, I did plenty of research online about the Bowflex and one of the comments I read did address the issue of putting it together. The way the guy put it, he said that if you have basic reading skills and basic mechanical skills, there's no problem putting it together. Well, after spending a few hours, I concur. In total, it probably took me about 3 hrs to put that thing together. Pretty neat. Now, we just have to actually use it. If not, it would make for a nice clothes rack though.

This was also a very big weekend in the NFL. I was shocked to see the Ravens lose to the Colts. Especially considering that Manning is looking like his usual "playoff Manning" self, I thought the Colts would have a tough time getting by the Ravens who I thought had a good shot at going deep. Well, I was obviously wrong. And it was great to see the Saints win. What a story. And how about that game between San Diego and New England. Tom Brady and Bill Belichek is ridiculous. I kinda wanted the Chargers to win but it's hard to root against the Patriots. It will be a nice classic matchup between the Colts and New England next week.

On the poker front... I really have nothing to say. Surprisingly, I didn't really play much poker at all this weekend. The main reason was because I got hammered last night (Sat night). It's been a while since I got drunk like that and I was paying the price for it all day on Sunday. One of my friends is moving to GA so we planned a surprise party for him and his wife and we drank like the old days when we used to go downtown every weekend and do shots after shot... So we started with the honorable shot of Soco since that was our shot of 2004. 2005 was the year of the Jagerbombs so we did that. Then we stopped going out like we used to in 2006 so we had to think of something. So we did Soco lime as recommended by our waitress. And then we did another and then another.... Honestly, I don't remember anything. Hell, I didn't know the Saints won until I checked the score online this morning. And the beers were $1. And yet my tab.... was a shocking $144... I don't even know what the hell I ordered. Those shots obviously add up. It's like 11pm on Sunday and I'm finally feeling better/back to normal. I'm ok with not getting drunk like that anymore. Too painful for me the next day. It's not like my younger days when I could do that and then come back strong the next day. I'm all disoriented. So, needless to say, no poker for me today.

I am headed to New Orleans for work tomorrow morning and I'll be down there all week so I'll probably be playing less online and a lot at Harrah's down there since the casino is like 2 blocks away from my hotel. Hopefully, I'll have some positive things to report from down there.