Yea I gotchya. I only have about 40 buy-ins for the $11 tournaments. But I only play about 1 a day, while playing a few $4.40s a day will keep me afloat until then. Also if/once I hit a real dry spell, I'll go back to grinding some DoN's at $5 if I have to.
Well...I played very under rolled for $25 NL and had almost all of my money on the tables last night.
Just got back from Turning Stone Casino today (central NY).

Played $200 max ($1/$2). Bought in $150 and turned it into $540.
You keep using that word "grinding." I don't think it means what you think it means.