Crazy Month of August

Well August is done and is was probably the wildest month of my life.  Lots of stuff changed, I fell way short of some goals but I'm not too unhappy with how everything turned out.  My original goal for the month was to play about 300k hands and pick up some ground on SNE.  Well that was an epic fail as I got only 160k hands in, so now the last four months of the year are going to have to be around 250k hands each to make it.  Considering I'm still planning a Eurotrip for EPT Barcelona, and a ski trip out west at the end of the year, it's going to be a battle.

There's definitely a few good reasons why I failed hard at playing this month.  I was AC-less, internetless, and homeless for a decent portion of the month.  My AC in Atlanta had been out for most of the summer, and the maintenance crew could not figure out wtf was going wrong, so it was in the upper 80's every day in the apartment.  Always nice to work in a sweltering hot place.  Then the internet started going out, more on this later.  And then I was homeless for a few days, as I had to be out of my 90 degree apartment and hadn't set up another place to live yet.  I ended up grabbing another apartment in the same complex with DrLuck, which is turning out pretty well.

At one point during the month I was all ready to move to Miami with DrLuck and Nolan.  We were halfway there in Daytona when Nolan decided he'd rather live in Austin, TX, and had bought a place there during his cross country drive from Vegas, so Miami was put on hold for a while.  The plan now is to wait till the end of the year, and then have Speedle meet us down in Miami for the new year to find a place.  I was pretty excited for Miami, but was going to lose probably another week of playing, so maybe it's for the best that it didn't work out right away.

Back to this lack of internet ordeal.  Comcast is, without a doubt, the worst excuse for a business in this country.  Their customer support is garbage, their technicians are garbage, and they charge about 2x more than AT&T for comparable services.  Upon moving into the new apartment, we told them we needed 2 separate internet connections.  No problem they said, and a technician came and installed 2 modems from the same jack using a splitter.  The connection worked for a few minutes, and he left.  However, we couldn't both use our connections at the same time as the connection would bounce back and forth between the two modems.  This was pretty unfortunate as we were both trying to play, and probably lost about 5k combined due to this garbage.

After about 10 phone calls to comcast, and navigating through their horrid answering machine system, we were told that it's impossible to have 2 modems from the same jack.  Oh sweet, thanks for charging us for 2 lines, and installing them before you tell us it's impossible.  Eventually we went down to one modem and set up another network, but that one constantly crashed as well.  Comcast tells us everything is fine, but the internet was in and out every session we played and it was nearly impossible to hold connection for over an hour.  More technicians came out, of course it was working fine when they were here, so it appears we are just SOL.  Eventually we had enough and switched everything over to AT&T, so hopefully that'll work better for us when it all gets installed this weekend.

September should be a pretty intense month.  I've got a few tennis leagues starting so that'll definitely keep me busy, and I'll have to put in about 7 hours a day online to stay on pace for the end of the year.  Oh, and Amybug is attempting to win the UGL at 25nl, and she's set up a little grind station in our apartment so good luck, run good, be like notilt, portion control, take vitamin, etc.

However, we now have a pretty awesome apartment to relax in while not playing, and it has working AC which is always nice.  I'll post some pics of the apartment in the next post.

Awesome August graph things:

Hands from the desktop:

Hands from laptop:

Also made about 8k in bonuses, a little over 1k on my new laptop (Dell studio xps, seems awesome so far), and played once live and this happened...

So all in all, my best month ever in terms of profit, a pretty bad month in terms of volume, and a pretty hectic month in terms of life.  Hopefully things settle down in September, I don't have anything big planned, so likely I'll be able to get into a good routine and crank out 250k hands or so and maybe make some money while we're at it.