I’m sure you don’t want to hear about my personal life, but I’ve been kind of in a depressed state for a while now, and thought I’d let you in on what’s happening in my life. The depression I’m talking about isn’t so much the ‘life sucks’ type, more like a big rut.

Taking a look back, I basically narrowed my career options by failing to get university-sufficient grades in high school and have been kind of wandering aimlessly since. I have been working on and off with small jobs, the biggest being the landscaping that I do in the warmer seasons, and playing poker and/or drinking with friends on my spare time. As I’m sure you can imagine, being cooped up in my mother’s house doesn’t help. She’s reacting to my idleness just as you would expect, with constant nagging and all that fun stuff. She’s not so much trying to get me out of the house as she is trying to get me to go to school and get a career going.

One of my good friends is in a similar situation, and we’ve been talking for the last while about moving out. If everything works out soon enough, then we might have a place by October!

I’ve lived my whole life in the same house, switching bedrooms every few years to survive the boredom and same old routine, and this’ll be the first time I’ll actually be living somewhere else. It’s going to be a big change, and as you can imagine, I’m very excited.

I’ll be starting my second of a few courses for my electrical program in college, and will have to find a new job with landscaping slowing down with the season. The ideal job would be an electrical apprenticeship, and although I’d love to get one, I most probably won’t. Getting your foot in the door (ie getting your first apprenticeship) is the hardest part of getting into trades, or so I’m told.

Anyways, wish me luck! Any tips in the comment section would also be appreciated too

As for poker, I’ve been playing a little less, probably on par with keeping my silver star status just barely. I’ve switched down to 4 tabling the $16 STTs after realizing that while I can keep my attention on 6 tables, I’m losing a much bigger edge than I’d like. So much that I’m only barely breaking even. I’ll probably log another 500 games before I either move up to more tables per session, or up to the next stake level. Hopefully the grind will help me out with rent once in a while and bring in enough profit to get some new toys occasionally too