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…
nickthenerd Fun gf, Poker, Vacation
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…
nickthenerd Fun Friends, Vacation
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