home

Back in Saint Paul. In Maryland, the raccoons reportedly haven't made their way back in the basement. Here, I'm tooling around outside and at work too much to get any poker playing in. Maybe on the weekends.

I'm living in the dorms until August 1.

raccoons III

We apprehended the mother today. She was extremely quiet. There are at least two more children about. The marshmallows came through as the winning bait. Apparently they come through chimneys and chew their way from the fireplace to the duct system where they can get "anywhere in the house." I need to get a digital camera that records video with sound.

raccoons II

I haven't caught any more in the past couple days. In short, the trap that I borrowed from the town of Cheverly pretty much sucks. Two nights ago I put chicken in there, and the raccoons waltzed in and ate it and left the trap unharmed. Last night, they ate the pancakes, and then somehow the trap tripped but there was no raccoon in there.

I have to keep telling myself they aren't outsmarting me.

My father, in his infinite wisdom, left the laundry room door open last night. The mother raccoon made another expedition upstairs this morning, scaring the hell out of my mom while she was blowdrying her hair. "I shrieked," she said. "She [the raccoon] looked surprised. I didn't realize they had expressions."

What's the new plan of action?
1. Fix the trap somehow
2. Get a new trap somehow
3. Figure A

blub blub blub

from last night's second place finish

PokerStars Game #17580890927: Tournament #89107530, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVII (2000/4000) - 2008/05/21 - 00:58:08 (ET)
Table '89107530 16' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: HoboJaws (82706 in chips)
Seat 5: easymisi (94140 in chips)
Seat 8: joel7300 (93154 in chips)
HoboJaws: posts the ante 400
easymisi: posts the ante 400
joel7300: posts the ante 400
easymisi: posts small blind 2000
joel7300: posts big blind 4000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HoboJaws [Ac Qh]
HoboJaws: raises 6000 to 10000
easymisi: calls 8000
joel7300: folds
*** FLOP *** [Jc 5d 3c]
easymisi: checks
HoboJaws: checks
*** TURN *** [Jc 5d 3c] [2h]
easymisi: bets 12000
HoboJaws: calls 12000
*** RIVER *** [Jc 5d 3c 2h] [3s]
easymisi: bets 20000
HoboJaws: calls 20000
*** SHOW DOWN ***
easymisi: shows [Ts Qs] (a pair of Threes)
HoboJaws: shows [Ac Qh] (a pair of Threes - Ace kicker)
HoboJaws collected 89200 from pot

nosedive

last night

PokerStars Tournament #89107530, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $1800.00
Tournament started - 2008/05/20 - 20:34:43 (ET)

Dear HoboJaws,

You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $360.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 190.75 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

Account: $723.34

raccoons

There are several raccoons in our basement. Here is one that I trapped. There are at least three more. After this little guy was caught the mother found her way upstairs to our main floor and tried to knock over our trashcan before scampering back downstairs. My dad thought it was our cat until he remembered that we don't have a cat anymore.

catching up

I used to be here:

http://foldedandtold.livejournal.com/

I am now here.