Ramblings

It's been a week and a half since I have blogged, even though on at least three or four occasions I've considered posting. The topics at hand just didn't quite seem like enough to make a blog entry worthwhile on their own, but since I still haven't found anything that I want post, I'll lump them all together as some random thoughts.

• The Flames picked up Jiri Hudler and Dennis Wideman in free agency. They also re-signed Blake Comeau and Lee Stempniak. Wideman was the guy I was hoping we'd (realistically, in fantasy land I'd obviously love Parise/Suter) target in FA, so my wish was granted even though I think his contract is a slight overpayment. The Hudler signing I'm mildly happy with. Not thrilled with Comeau being back, but it's not the end of the world as long as he's being given fourth line minutes and nothing more.
• Two weeks into the season in which the "changing of the guard" at quarterback has taken place for the Stampeders, and the new guy (Drew Tate) has already blown out his shoulder. Maybe we shouldn't have traded Burris, but you can't always be handcuffed by the worst case scenario in sports or business.
• Ray Bitar surrendered to the DOJ, which suggests very heavily that something must be getting down on the FTP front. On the other hand, a semi-reputable source was tweeting recently that the Pokerstars bid to buy FTP and settle with the DOJ was a huge bluff to blow up the potential Tapie deal and simply keep FTP down and out. I guess we'll see in the coming months. I certainly haven't agreed with a lot of stuff Stars has done recently, but I really doubt they'd stoop that low.
• In the past three weeks I've written a ton of code working on the engine for my indie jRPG. I'm really happy with how well its coming. It's a bit strange, after I left my job at the end of 2008, I wrote virtually no code up until this project. That's a three and a half year break!

I've been experiencing some runbad at the tables lately, but nothing too serious. At the worst, the variance has motivated me to put in more volume than I was planning - it's been a while since that happened. I may play the Stampede Classic poker tournament on Monday, it's a $1000+$100 donkament held every year during Stampede. I'm certain the field will be lolsoft, but the structure sucks and every time I play a live donkament I'm reminded how boring live poker is.