One goal – find a way to play in the World Series of Poker – Main Event.
This story starts at 5 A.M. on Tuesday, the 16th of June. We make it to the Parking Spot by 5:20. My gf and I sit in row 11a in car (as we are told) with the lights on because it is raining. One shuttle comes down row 12 a few moments later but keeps going. Then the next shuttle goes by, then the next one, then a fourth. Finally D calls the front desk and gets a rude a-hole that just responds, “They are coming! Hold on!” A few minutes later another shuttle zooms by in row 12. Finally the rain stops and D calls again half yelling, half crying because we have waited patiently for over a half hour and now we are verging on missing our flight since it takes off at 7.
Luckily we got their attention because the next shuttle came directly to our car so we loaded up and had a direct path to the Southwest gate. I had hoped this wasn’t the start of a bad trip and more bad karma headed our way. Read more…
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You could call it a party, but since it was an all day event, it seems right just to call it a ‘Day.’
Today started in great fashion because I had a bunch of server upgrades this morning for a client from midnight to 7 A.M. I was up around 2, went out, got some lunch and by the time I got back, the marmot mobile was in my driveway, ready to head to the K. Read more…
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I was lucky enough to be drawn for the second round of tickets..apparently a lot of people bailed for one reason or another and had to release their tickets. The seats I picked up were at the very top row of a corner section. The benefit to these seats are that they were located on the end of the row, nearest the Men’s room and very close to a concession stand. The sight line was not bad at all either…obviously anywhere on the side would of been better, but I can’t complain too much. I liked where we sat, if for nothing else, the convenience.
As per usual, the Sprint Center gets an epic fail for their security issues. They just cannot get people in the door fast enough. Blame the people all you want for waiting so long to enter but let’s be honest, a majority of these folks had not been in the Sprint Center and probably had not heard of all the issues they have getting people in on time. Just open more doors people! Every single time I go there, ten minutes till the game starts the doors swing open and the security goes into panic mode. Why can’t we do this 20 minutes earlier? Anyways, I digress. That is my only consistent complaint about the Sprint Center and the rest of the post will be shown in a positive light. Read more…
nickthenerd Fun Family, Sports
Well…it wasn’t exactly unexpected by any person who follows college basketball. Kansas State lost to Texas tonight. They lost by three in a defensive struggle.
The cats had a hell of a time scoring, which is also not a surprise. These last few conference games, Kansas State has averaged a whooping 29% field goal percentage. That is horrible, folks. At the same time, our opponents usually shoot 50% , give or take 5%. The good news is that Kansas State is good at both offensive rebounds and defense.
Unfortunately tonight was not the night for Clemente when he went a bone-jarring 0-7 from 3-pt lan in the first half. I feel like if we could of just hit some points here and there this game wouldn’t of even been a contest. Kansas State really needed to win this game to make a push for the NCAA. Since we didn’t win, it is pretty much a guaranteed ride into the NIT now. Read more…
nickthenerd Fun Family, Kansas State, Sports
Some friends and I had decided that it was time to take a trip to Colorado for a short vacation this year. Let me give you a run down of what we did/saw…
We started by heading for Idaho Springs, CO. Once we were there, we ate at a local pizza place called Beau Jos, which I definitely recommend for everyone that goes through the mountains on I – 70. The pizza was fantastic! Afterwards we just had a few beers and b.s’ed back at the cabin. Read more…
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Ahhh….Vegas…one of two favorite cities of mine that I had previously visited.
We flew direct from KC to Vegas and one of the most interesting things of the flight was flying directly over Wamego and Manhattan. I had seen the Kansas River from the window and noticed the curves. I’m a huge map dork so I recognized the curves from the air and followed it right into Wamego. I bumped my gf and said, “Hey, I think that is Wamego” and she brushed me off as crazy because we had not been in the air for very long (~30 minutes) and sure enough, I looked further ahead and saw Tuttle/Manhattan.
Now normally I wouldn’t of be ‘THAT’ excited about seeing my old stomping grounds from the air, but this just happened to be a few days after the recent Tornado that blew through the west side and exploded the Amherst area of town. It was pretty obvious, even from the plane, where the path of the tornado went through, scattering a brighter yellow color all over it’s path. Read more…
nickthenerd Fun Friends, Vacation