You’ll all be happy to hear that I’m two-out-of-three so far on my new year’s resolutions:

1. Okay, so I haven’t gone to the gym at all so far this week. But it’s been open shorter hours, and will be back to regular days on Monday, so I’ll start going then. Yeah.

2. Tobacco: It’s been a rough week, but I’ve done alright!

3. I’m a little ahead of target here. I had a good week at the ring games.

And now a word on the dreaded “suck-outs”, “bad beats” and “awful players” that are so in fashion to complain about:

Yes, it is indeed cold out there. I’m starting to seriously miss having a car, because riding my bike to work makes it feel like someone’s poured acid on my cheeks. Fortunately it’s a short trip, so it doesn’t kill me, but it’s still cold. Brrrrr.

Between work, christmas and new year’s, trips to parents, anniversaries and the sudden fanatical interest in a video game, I just haven’t gotten around to playing a whole lot of poker. I’m still trying to manage 1000 hands played per week, but even that seems to demand slightly more time than I really have available.