Weekend of joy ;)

Ok, not that much because it was mostly painful, but still. I'm now in my new place, bigger, better, nicer, 10 minutes closer to work. I won at the poker satellite, I have my free place at the QPT (150$ inscription). I will get my FTA receiver this week and the 2 last DVDs from my order, everything seem to be good so far.

The moving saturday was perfect, no problem at all. The weather was 5 degree celcius, I couldn't ask better. Like today it's minus 10 and raining/snowing terrible. I was so LUCKY on that one. Probably the best day of january (really special for winter). Everything is at the new place, there still a lots of work to do, but during next week, life should get back to normal.

The only thing is that Internet is not working yet. Usually it's 2 to 5 days, it's been 4 days, damn thing can't wait to get the net back.

Poker:
I subscribed at the QPT (Quebec Poker Tour) Sattelite sunday. 25$ + 5$ (for the place), to have a place, 6 peoples at the table. The winner - 150$ (Free QPT inscription). There was 40 satellite, so there will be a minimum of 6000$ in cash for the tournament. It's the first time I do a satellite like that, and it's VERY fast. Every 10 minutes the blind go up. You start with 5000tokens, the blind at 50/100, then 100/200,200/400,500/1000,1000/2000,1500/3000,2000/4000.

After an hour it's 1500/3000 that's mean the 5000tokens you have don't last long. So most games finish around 1-1h15. (Or before). That's also mean you have to be a bit lucky and a bit agressive, you cannot just sit tight and wait.

And of course, I won ;)

The résumé of my game:
Guys in front of me (right) got the one in front of me (left) out really early, he doubled his stack then he got the one at his left (top of table) out too after a while of playing (his stack was getting too small). From there he had like 60% of the tokens on the table (T17000 or so), I was like at T6000, the guys at my right T4000 and at my left like T3000. I put the guys at my right all-in, and got him out, so I was around T10000. There I was in good position, with only 3 of us left. The guys at my left went all-in vs the chips leader. Very lucky he got like T6000 (3000-4000 tokens from the leader who got down to like T13000 or so). Way better for me, then in a hand he put like T4000, I call all-in, he fold, I got the lead there, I was around T14000, he was like at T10000 and the guys at the left like T6000. A couples of hands after, we go see the flop, he put like T4000, I call ALL-IN. I had J-7 i believe, He had like 9-6 and the flop was like J-9-3, K, and something like 2. I won and got his huge stack of chips. Putting me in big lead.

Heads-up, I was around T24000, and the left one at T6000. I thought I would eat him alive, I had a huge lead, The blind was 1000/2000, I do an all-in Ad-6d, He got K-K, and got another K on the flop. Right after, I got Qc-Jc suited, all-in, he got another K-K, after like 3 hands (where I got some blinds), I do another all-in with like J-7 because the flop was J-9-3 or something, well he show me his KK (3 times in 5 hands...). I was really getting low and lost the balance power there (less than T7000). After a couples of hands, I was more agressive, stealing most blinds I did another all-in with a real bad hand (I needed to raise my stack bad). I win with some luck (he didnt had anything too). From there I got more than the half, I got back the power. I did some more agressive move, I get back to like T21000, So I was finally after a while back in command (because I was SO close to lose). I go All-IN with As-8s, he had like K-10, the board was 7-7-6-6-4, I won on that one.

That's it :) Im happy and I have my place for the big tournament.

For my TV toy (FTA Receiver), I checked on UPS, the box left Los Angeles 2 days ago. Im hoping that's will take 7 days max to deliver (the expected delievry date is like 06 feb. which is monday next week. But if they can delivery friday before the weekend that's would ROCK ! (I know that UPS, I expect it to have it in 2 weeks in reality).
I can't wait to see how good that thing really work ;)

FTA receiver and more !

While checking new providers for TV and Internet, I decided to check every possibilities. The new coworker here talked to me about his FTA receiver. I checked HDTV OTA, FTA, normal cable prices, etc. Ended up buying a PANSAT 3500SD, HDTV output, SD card reader to flash and play mp3, all the goodies possible, the lastest version. I got a good deal on ebay. Im waiting my shipping confirmation, can't wait to have my new (illegal) toy. The lucky thing is, where I move there is already a dish installed ;)

This is the remote provided with the FTA receiver, look quite ok to me, the other thing too is, when checking different website for the same product, some peoples don't offer any remote or goodies with it.

Like me I got this extra data switch and a 128 megs SD bonus card with it, quite a nice deal if you ask me. I paid like 220$ CAD all included (shipping too) and most websit got the product at like 210-260$ CAD shipping not included and nothing included.

On similar news, my moving don't motivate me at all but I have to since it's tomorow. I fixed most of my addresses already and I got a better deal on my ISP DSL provider (I will save like 150$ at the end of the year for the same product).

Another Picture of Mexico (Gajuento I think), maybe at this rate in a year I will have posted them all.

PC Fixed !

Finally, computer is back at home. I wanted to order a motherboard on ebay to save some money but well I got impatient. I went to a small store close to my place, bought a cheap ECS 741GX-M (Not easy to find a athlon XP motherboard these day, it's outdated). 50$, work perfectly so far, all my problems are fixed, the other motherboard was messed up, doing random errors, random crash, random problems everything you want. At the end, it was booting up and was crashing right away.

After repairing and fixing stuff. Everything seem to work perfectly. Im happy too because vero was able to go on the internet, but not much else. Now, She has a computer for music, videos, games, web, msn, etc. Much better !

Also she will need a recorder for her french course. I was checking around the MP3 players, recorder, FM tuner, 1gigs, I saw the iRiVeR T10. Really cool product, Im looking forward to order that (mostly for the look because I saw some other kind that do the SAME stuff but hey the iRiver look good). I like this product so much more than a crappy iPod, Im not sure why peoples like ipod shuffle anyway, for the same price imo you can get better. Maybe I wait to move before ordering, because I will move this weekend. I was expecting to move before the 1st march, but it's better for my friend if I move for the 1st fabruary and the owner asked me too If I could move for date, peoples want it for the 1st feb. It's perfect with me, but that's leave me only 7 days. I have to start packing this week for this weekend. I have to check to rent a truck 20 feets and everything.

I know a really busy week coming up. I know I wrote nothing about Mexico, but this will take me a lots of time and I wanted to explain everything and make some good posts about my trip. Im going to have to wait after I move, so be patient and read my crappy updates for now (not like I do any good posts) :)

Moving soon !

Since Im too lazy to do any good posts and my PC at home is dead. I just do a quick post from work. In theory, we found a place to move. It's a friend house in Montreal, since he is a musician, he got a contract for 4 month outside and we would live with him at his place (and he want someone to watch the house).

I got my "Bail", whatever it's called in english signed thought until july. If I don't have any problem, the landlord (or something) will just break it and I will be abl eto move, else it might be a pain to either find someone to come live at my place, or like I don't want to pay 3 months for nothing.

Lots of more stuff to say, not enough time to write (especially at work with the overload of works and the new guy that doesn't help me much really still).

Since im broke from my vacation

I thought it would be good to orders DVDs so I stay home and save money.....

Might not be a good way anyway but I ordered that last night (Im trying a new provider too in florida, the other one was 10 min from home, but did bankrupt and I doubt about the new owner (was dvdsoon)). Im trying dvdpacific.com, everything was in stock except the dual pack (Constantine and Alexander was 10$, Constantine alone was 14$ go figure).

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Widescreen) 1 x $20.78
Rounders: Collector's Series Edition 1 x $13.41
Kill Bill Volume 1 1 x $13.41
Immortal 1 x $16.90
Silence Of The Lambs, The 1 x $9.24
Kill Bill Volume 2 1 x $13.38
Godfather, The 1 x $13.18
Elizabeth 1 x $9.17
Godfather, The: Part II 1 x $13.17
Godfather, The: Part III 1 x $13.18
Enemy At The Gates 1 x $5.88
Sin City 1 x $19.46
Pulp Fiction: Collector's Edition 1 x $13.41
Constantine & Alexander (Widescreen, 3PC, Side By Side Packaging) 1 x $10.30
Dark City 1 x $5.32

(Price in US)

You love or hate the list ? :)

Ok ok, there 4-5 pictures as a teaser (sorry I was too lazy to rotate the first picture):

Back from mexico !

There we go, yesterday I finally arrived back home safely. The return was a pain, stupid US custom took more than 2h30 (plane flight time between was 1h45). I missed my plane, took the next one to newark (NJ), then I was stuck there for the night, no more flight to Montreal, I had to sleep in a hotel like 4-5 hours. Got in Montreal in the morning... Missing 1 baggages. I still have to recall them today since I have no news from them yet.

The travel was awesome, I visited like 10 towns, took a tons of pictures and movies. Did so much stuff. (Tequila visit, Pyramids, Running bulls, Beach, Mountains, New year stuff, foods, shopping, etc.) I'm not sure when I will have time to update my blog thought. so MUCH stuff to say.

Back at work, with a LOTS, whole lots of problems and stuff to do. Really painful to be back here this morning. It seem like it will take me a month to be able to breath a little bit.

Oh and I got more UPS problems. God do I hate these companies that ship with this most crappy courrier ever.

Much more to come, maybe this weekend, else I start like my "Resume" next week then followed by parts, like 12 parts or so. I have to convert pictures, etc. Should help too.

Mexico stories incoming soon !

I'm still far from over, but I should post a lots pictures and stuff when I get back home in a week. I took already over 1 gigs of pictures, not sure what I will do with all that, but so many stuff to say, Ill probably split it in 10 parts or something !

Hopefully that's will be interesting !

Cya soon !