2013.

poker is a struggle at the moment
struggle to be motivated to play, and to play well when i do play.

i'm going back to basics and grinding out a roll from scratch. well, kinda. I'm going to grind 10buyins from each level and then get back into it. Or start looking for a normal job ;_)

poker in 2013 was a bit of a trainwreck for me. Made some $ and whatever but lost a lot of psyche (one month i played only 14hrs and somehow managed to lose $2k) and for the first time ever messed pretty hard on the bankroll management front. It will be interesting to see what 2014 will bring. At the moment it feels likely that 2014 will be the first year since 2008 that poker won't be my primary source of income. Then again, that would mean finding another source of $.

life in 2013 was eventful. I'm now fully recovered from the climbing accident i had 13 months ago, crazy to think that 11 months ago i couldn't walk far, couldn't do much, couldn't even drive. Now i'm running and climbing and riding, and it's about time to get my board out and hit some waves again. In the downtime I got better at fishing.

I got involved in local enviro-politics. We took it to the man. And we won. It's a pretty big deal. It's absolutely fucking awesome. I put over a thousand hours into that movement that we started back in march, I ended up on a first name basis with half a dozen members of parliament, I learned a lot about dealing with media, I built a bunch of bridges (and burned a couple of others i guess), I gained yet another perspective on how this country works. And it all ended in a simple press release and a few beers to celebrate: http://beehive.govt.nz/release/restr...uthland-remain, http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/28...g-stays-people

xmas eve was 25 people here having a good ol' fashioned bbq and session. 2014 is underway. And i'm excited to see what it will bring. As always, I have a few fun plans...