Ten Miles Back

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This was on eof the best nights I've had in a long time.

My friend and I get back from walmart around 10:30. We get back to his place and his roommate who also happens to be a friend of mine is in the living with with his girl who he's on the rocks with (weird story). so we barge in all, "What now fucker, we got Christmas shit". His roommate stops dead in the middle of the conversation and just stares at us with this glint in his eyes. He has something planned and it is going to be amazing. Quick backstory on him; about three weeks ago we rushed a frat around here that is famous for being douches because we got wasted one night and felt like ninja-ing something. Anyway, he's just standing there, staring at us for a good minute; no one has said a word. He looks my friend dead in the eye and says, "We're getting a tree. Tonight." We all look at him like... dude... its 10:30 at night, in Maine. Where the fuck are we going to get a tree. He just keep staring at us like, wtf are you guys waiting for, lets go. That's when we get it. He wants to get cut down a tree, right now.

Fast forward 30 minutes. We're in my jeep, which is a peice of shit, with a 16" bowie, a saws-all with a half dead battery, a flashlight and 3 pairs of work gloves. The only problem is where are we going to find a tree? It's Maine so there are too many options. Eventually we head down a dirt road I used to take to work. Along the way we immediately start finding candidates in the lawns on the side of the road. Eventually it turns to dirt and we're surround by woods. My friends roommate hops out and on top for lookout while I'm coasting down the road. We stop many a time to check out the prospects, but none pass, they're either too small or too sparse. After around the 15th stop the roommates girl yells for us to stop. She's found it. We all look at her like wtf are you looking at? about 30 feet into the woods we see it. This beauty of a tree. A 6 foot white pine. Nicely filled in. A beauty of a tree.

"Grab that fucking saws-all, we're doing it." The three of us hop out, tell the woman to get in the drivers seat and we bolt off into the woods. I have my bowie, my buddy has the light and his roommate has the saws-all. We get up to it and is even better up close. The perfect Maine pine. We clear the dead carasses of what I can only assume were maples and cast the 15' javellines aside and get to work. I hold the light while my friend holds the tree. There is only one problem... the saws-all is not half dead, its fully dead. So we say fuck it and spend about two minutes using the serated side of the bowie to saw it. That's going less than swimmingly. That's when we get an idea. A saws-all is called a saws all for a reason. It's a fucking saw. Who cares if the battery is dead, it runs on elbow grease too. So about 20 seconds later we're sprinting back to the jeep with the pearl of the woods in hand. It's only about 20 years old and light as a feather. so my friends hold it in one hand above his head. We open the trunk and through it in back. In haste we snap off the extra foot from the top to make sure it fits and off we go.

About 200 feet down the road my engine temp is red lining. We hop out and the engine is steaming. It's midnight and around 15 degrees. My engine is smoking. This is not good. Luckily, I had picked up some antifreeze about a week ago and my friend is handy with cars. So we pop the hood and fill the resivoir and the line and pray. Luckily it did the trick and we're off to the homestead.

My friends place has a simple layout, its a duplex and he's on the right side. The entryway is a hallway with the stairs as well. Dead ahead is the kitchen and the living room is on the right. In the back right coner is a small room with nothing in it. Normally its the beer pong (baerue?) room or work room. Now it is the official Christmas room. The tree is dead center and we have the lights. One major problem arises however: we have nothing to decorate it with other than lights, and not tree is complete with just lights. During the manly standing of the tree, the woman has been in the roommates room for quite a while. I'm just starting to download the soundtrack to the amazing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964 edition feat. Burl Ives), and she storms down the stairs demanding we close our eyes and appreciate her hard work. We oblige and moments later we are staring the beginning of a beautiful tree.



Yes. PBR. On a tree. Can it get better. yes it can:[

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My apartment doesn't have heat and neither does my friends house where I spend the majority of my nights on his couch... November in Maine with no heat kinda sucks.

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I really want to play and I really want to get good at this game, but it is taking forever. I beat nl2, had a roll of 250 and was ready to move onto nl10. That was 4 months ago, now I'm back grinding nl2 and running like garbage. Yeah I'm playing like shit and I know my leaks, but they don't consist of stacking off deep with marginal hands. My leaks cost me ~$2 a session, yet somehow I always manage to break even or down and quit after less than 1k hands. I'm sick of watching my premiums be destroyed. I know it will end and I'll get through it, I also know that I'm bad at this game and if I was better how I'm running wouldn't matter at these stakes. However, I suck at poker. I know how to beat nl2, I can play ABC poker decently, and I know I should be making ~$20 a day if I played as long as I'd like to after work. The only problem is I come home only to run into setup after setup after suckout. Yeah, some of my hands hold, unfortunately I have not had a hand hold for over half a buyin in the last two weeks.

FML, I want to play this game and I want to be good at it, but right now I just don't have the drive to do it.

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Marginal winningsBreak Even feel like shit when you can't fucking win a showdown.

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I'm currently making $15/hr working inside with my dad. I do autoCAD. I sit in front of a desk for 7 hours a day. It's easy work and it's just the two of us so it's generally a pretty laid back atmosphere and it is enjoyable enough. However, this being my first year living on my own, I'm not exactly in the best shape of my life. The past three summers I've been working labor. Everyone there likes me and I'm almost positive if I were to go back I would be hired without any hesitation. The only problem is the last two years there I was making $10/hr. I would be working 6 days a week with probably around 45-50 hours a week and would be having to leave here at 6:30 instead of the 35 and leaving at 9:30 working with my dad.

Yeah, it sounds like an obvious choice, omfg stay at your job now. The only problem is I feel like shit. Since leaving to be a waiter in September of last year (I made like 300 a day easy there) I have lost over 20lbs and am basically a skinny white kid. The last three summers I have been in fantastic shape. Not to mention I have a problem with acne on my shoulders, but sunlight has cured that for the last three summers.

So now I'm really really considering going back to harder work and less pay to get myself back into the condition I have been for the last three summers. I think it would do wonders for my ego.

Also, I'm going to college in the fall so I would be leaving both jobs around the end of August.

UGH. IDK what to do. $5/hr doesn't seem like much, but when you go from $15 to $10 it seems like the world.

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Total BR is at $252 so as soon as I get my moneybookers set up I'm switching over to somewhere with rakeback and going from there

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Note - I've lost my comp a couple times so this is all of the hands I have, probably from somewhere in early-mid January.

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Moving roll @ $250. AKA, hopefully sometime this week :D

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hit $200 tonight. I have to head back to my hometown tomorrow for my mom's birthday, but sunday night = nl10 :D

Not much to say about the session other than Fish Say the Darndest Things.

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