Month: December 2007

I never usually participate in memes at all, but since all it requires me is to quickly copy and paste and mark stuff as bold or not, I’ll play along since I was already working in my HTML editor anyway.

Dave, Jen, and Keeneye have all done it, so what the heck. Everything below that’s in bold is something I’ve done. If you have questions or are curious about any of them, comment below.

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So tonight our office had our annual staff holiday party. We always have two traditions at our parties: A white elephant gift exchange and a poker tourney. During the gift exchange, I got the dreaded coonskin cap that’s been passed around for the six years I’ve worked at the company — which I guess I deserve for wrapping up a paint mixer that you hook to your drill and giving that way.

Last year in the poker tourney, I was out in about four hands. This year, I was nearly out again in four hands, but got a lucky draw on the river in hold ’em to stay in. A couple hours later, I had won a few more big hands in a variety of games, I knocked off co-workers, and when the game was called, I had the most chips, which meant I got the first place prize of a cool $75.

I’m quite positive the reason I won was because I was the only one at the table that was still sober, as most of the folks at the table had put down a few beers already. But I’ll take what I can get. I was pretty proud of myself, though I’m sure that Chris could still very easily beat me since he got second in the Jake’s Diner tourney. But at least I can say I didn’t get beat by a pre-teen.