Almost done with Real Estate

It's the end of the summer. I haven't played more than a couple low buy-in donk-fests lately. This is mostly due to the fact that I moved into a new house...with no Internet connection. I can actually get a connection from some yokels wireless router...the connection seems to be better at night....late at night. I bought a new house and sold my vacation condo./investment property. I still need to sell my old house (grandfather's old house in Lawrence, MA...I bought it in 2002). So I'm 2/3Rd's done with my RE month from hell. I have never known stress like this...or have met so many stupid people (Real Estate Donkeys) in such a short time.

I MUST BE STUPID.....

Not only am I buying a new house and selling an old house and a condo in NH.....I am doing this at the worst time of year to sell Real Estate. Not only am I doing all of this at the worst time of the year...it is the worst time of year of THE WORST YEAR IN 20 YEARS to buy and sell all of these properties. I'm not taking a loss in any of the properties yet....but the stress is kind of a drag. I'm also working full time and my wife just started a new teaching job the day after Labor Day. My daughter just started at a new daycare too!! The more I write down here the more crazy I think I must be. I just got caught up in the shit-storm that is RE buying and selling. I'll tell you that I am much more happy to live in a town that reminds my wife and I of towns that we grew up in. I can actually feel safe going to sleep at night for the first time in five years. My priorities have certainly changed since the arrival of my daughter. We had to get out of Lawrence and find a town to live and raise our daughter in. Wakefield seems to be a great fit. I've been packing up all my stuff...my wife's stuff..and my daughter's stuff. It seems endless....I'm going to have to throw some shit out. I have to let go of my Guitar magazines with probably 20,000 songs transcribed in tablature. That's how I learned how to play guitar...number on lines....endless hours of practice reading numbers on lines.

I'm going to have to face up to the fact that my online poker days are going to be very limited. Small buy-in tourneys is all this kid can afford....small buy-ins. Playing poker online is and has been like learning to play guitar by tablature. Lots of practice...with some satisfactory results once in a while. They mostly consist of making a final table here and there. Or chatting with some fellow online warriors....like Julius_Goat. He actually go me to fire up the old Yahoo Chat (I haven't used it for like 8 years...I used to get so annoyed with it at work). It's actually a pretty cool thing to rail while somebody is going pretty deep in the 28k. I think Goat witnessed some of my most awful beats. Not only is Goat one hell of a player...he cracks my up with his blog. He also seems to be a genuinely nice person. The guy that handed me a wicked pissa beat in the 28K made me think of a new profile for the Goats list......THE THREE OUT LOUT.....or THREE OUT KRAUT. I don't know...it is food for thought. I will have Verizon Fios installed in my house next week....I just my have to get back to the grind....the low-limit grind that is.........