Poker and the Art of War (Part 2 - Five is the magic number)

More poker related thoughts on, “Sun Tsu’s Art of War - A Modern Chinese Interpretation - Bold-faced wisdom to guide you through life’s daily conflicts” by General Tao Hanzhang (Translated by Yuan Shibing).  Throughout this post (and later posts) I’ll refer to quotes/suggestions from this book as coming from “TAOW”.  You can buy the book at Amazon.com [...]

Poker and the Art of War (Part 1 - Preparing for Battle)

While in Mexico I devoured a book called, “Sun Tsu’s Art of War - A Modern Chinese Interpretation - Bold-faced wisdom to guide you through life’s daily conflicts” by General Tao Hanzhang (Translated by Yuan Shibing).  Throughout this post (and later posts) I’ll refer to quotes/suggestions from this book as coming from “TAOW”.  You can buy the [...]

On Vacation

Yesterday marked the start of a much needed vacation.  I awoke at 4:15am to eat breakfast, shower, and run 3 errands (drop off some appraisal biz, get gas for the car, and hit the ATM) before picking up Kevin and Katya at 5:30am for our 8am International flight to Mazatlan in Sinaloa Mexico.
Holy crap is [...]

On Hiatus

This is one of those times when the sh*t just hits the fan and you gotta roll with it.  In a nutshell:

Zack’s cancer has returned…aggressively

I’ve decided to discontinue his chemotherapy and put him to sleep as soon as he starts to exhibit signs of physical pain/stress.  Right now things appear to primarily be cosmetic (lumps [...]