Via the Evil Genius Chronicles, an update on James Slusher’s run in the WSOP. By the numbers:
Congratulations, James!
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Frequent tbbs commenter and all-round good egg James Slusher is in Las Vegas this weekend, playing in the World Series of Poker Event #27. Via the Evil Genius Chronicles, an update on how he’s doing:
At the last check-in, the field had shrunk from 2700 to 600 and Jim had about an average stack. Something like the top 270 will get paid, so he was getting awfully close to the money. He hasn’t called lately so that has to be good news.
That sounds like a commendable performance to me. I went out to WSoP’s event website in search of more up-to-date news. All I could tell for sure was that there are now 350 left standing; I didn’t see James’ name in either the eliminated list or the chip count list. I don’t know what that portends.
So, James, if you’re still in the running, rock on! Try not to do any belly flops on the river, or whatever it’s called.
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Last evening, SWMBO, Dave, his wife, James, their mom and her husband, and I had a magnificent meal and a large schooner of some fine micro brew at the Liberty Steakhouse and Brewery, which is in the Broadway at the Beach section (I guess that’s the right term) of Myrtle Beach.
After dinner we walked around the boardwalk, fed the fish from a bridge over the water, stopped for a cone at Ben & Jerry’s, and generally enjoyed all the touristy splashiness. I had a ball; it was a cross between the midway at a state fair and the souvenir trailers at a NASCAR event. Being amongst good people you haven’t seen in a while was the best part, though.
Today, we have a portion of the day to do more touristy stuff, before the birthday celebration begins later this afternoon. Right now, I’m torn between visiting the historic section of Conway, which I’ve seen and read about on Dave’s blog, or heading to a ginormous outlet mall just down the road a piece. I suppose one could say there are outlet malls everywhere, but man this one is a monster.
Whatever we do, we’re gonna have a bunch of fun.
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Thus far the PODS experience has been great. SWMBO made the order via phone (could have been done online), I confirmed and agreed to the order online, a confirming mail-o-gram promptly came back, and tonight, on Pod Eve, this via email:
The PODS computer has finished calculating the delivery truck schedules for tomorrow. It is estimated that we will perform the job described below between 8am and 11am:
I’m tickled pink, and trust that the attention and just good old-fashioned good service will continue.
And, I’m locating the liniment; James has discovered that work-related discomforts are not an exclusive province of us old coots.
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I’d volunteered some excess tbbs bandwidth to host some of the late Acidman’s songs. There were plenty of volunteers, and my offer of bandwidth still stands for whatever tributes his family, friends, and loyal minions see fit to organize.
In the interim, I’ll try my first embedded audio in a post, and leave you with some pickin’ and singin’ from Rob Smith, the Acidman his own self; this one is entitled My Door is Always Open:
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H/T: James, at The Chair and Automan, from whom I stole the “embed” stuff he used in his first embedded video post at his place.
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