it's my blog and i can pepper it with pictures if i want to

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just two: unhappy jason and halloweeny jason.

it's been a week

A busy week, but a fun week. Jason is healthy - he's gaining weight again. Debbie's doing well, she's slowly adjusting to it, figuring out ways to pick up a couple of hours of sleep. Her mom was here this week and that helped us a lot. My mom will be down next week to help, but we'll have a couple of days on our own, which will hopefully be fine.

In the interim, here's a picture. We're ready for the Buckeyes game today.

it's 8am...

...and I'm blogging one handed. Debbie just got to sleep.

It's been a bit of a long nght. Debbie is frustrated/concerned. Meanwhile Jason is fast asleep in my arms as Sportscenter plays on my TV for the fourth time. I am very well informed.

Debbie and Jason are home

We left the hospital a little after noon today. If you're in the Columbus area and are having a baby, I highly recommend Riverside Methodist Hospital. Absolutely phenomenal - not a single bad thing to say. The staff was extraordinary, they were very helpful with Jason.

Of course Blizzard is extremely intrigued by this new thing here. He's very keen on being around him. However, he's starting to accept him, rather than just be curious of him. I was laying down on the sofa with Jason in my left arm and Blizzard went into his 'cubbyhole' on the right, and he was calm for the first time since we came home. That was good. However, afterwards Debbie went to lay down in bed for a few minutes, so I put Jason in his bassinet and helped her out. We put Blizzard on the bed, but he was anxious and wanted down and then went and immediately checked Jason out again. It'll be some time till he's completely accepting of Jason.

I get to go back to work Sunday, unfortunately. However, Debbie's family will be coming down that day, and her Mom will be staying for the week, which will really help Debbie out.

I'm having a blast.

I'll try not to pepper my blog with too many pictures

But I may fail.

Here's the proud papa with his son. Papa needs a haircut.

Debbie and Jason are due to come home tomorrow at noon. Blizzard's life won't be the same, that's for sure. I'm confident he'll adjust in time.

hi. i'm a dad.

Jason King Hoagland Jr. was born at 12:31 PM October 18th. He weighed 7 lbs 10 oz and was 21 inches long. Mom and baby are doing well, I'm about to go back to spend the evening with them.

Not a very good day

My grandfather passed this morning. It hit me pretty hard today, much harder than really anything else has hit me. I think an awful lot of it is that he was about to become a great-grandfather for the first time and was really looking forward to it incredibly. Another significant part is that he was doing so much better that I thought he'd be fine, then out of seemingly nowhere he passed. So, as you can imagine I didn't have a very good day, but I was able to leave work early and take Blizzard to the park and have a nice long walk to clear my mind, which really helped.

Obviously, as you can infer from all this, I'm not yet a father. I have no idea what I will do in regards to his funeral. It's going to be really tough either way.

I had a much longer entry that I planned to write out, but when I decided to finally start typing this up, it was pretty tough to do. So we'll leave it short. Mom said that she told him to pick out an angel to send down through my son, so hopefully for her sake he'll decide he's ready to be born this weekend and REALLY help lift her spirits.

the old trifecta!

In limit play a 'trifecta' is when you check/raise a player on the flop, on the turn and on the river - and get action on all three streets. I don't think this is a PURE trifecta, since he 3 bet twice, but I don't care, I'm taking credit for it.



Full Tilt Poker Game #1091967406: Table PDX (speed, 6 max) - $5/$10 - Limit Hold'em - 22:15:04 ET - 2006/10/11
Seat 1: lamone4 ($123)
Seat 4: THEOSU ($253)
Seat 6: DMongooseY ($712)
THEOSU posts the small blind of $2.50
DMongooseY posts the big blind of $5
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to THEOSU [6c 5s]
lamone4 folds
THEOSU calls $2.50
DMongooseY raises to $10
THEOSU calls $5
*** FLOP *** [6s 9h 5c]
THEOSU checks
DMongooseY bets $5
THEOSU raises to $10
DMongooseY raises to $15
THEOSU calls $5
*** TURN *** [6s 9h 5c] [Ks]
THEOSU checks
DMongooseY bets $10
THEOSU raises to $20
DMongooseY raises to $30
THEOSU calls $10
*** RIVER *** [6s 9h 5c Ks] [7d]
THEOSU checks
DMongooseY bets $10
THEOSU raises to $20
DMongooseY calls $10
*** SHOW DOWN ***
THEOSU shows [6c 5s] (two pair, Sixes and Fives)
DMongooseY mucks
THEOSU wins the pot ($149) with two pair, Sixes and Fives
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $150 Rake $1
Board: [6s 9h 5c Ks 7d]
Seat 1: lamone4 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: THEOSU (small blind) showed [6c 5s] and won ($149) with two pair, Sixes and Fives
Seat 6: DMongooseY (big blind) mucked [Ac Kd] - a pair of Kings

In other news: I'm still not a father

In other other news: I've learned that a particular avid reader of my blog was, in fact, born on a Wednesday the 13th. I'm not worried that my son will be born on Friday the 13th, as a matter of fact I hadn't even thought about it until this particular avid reader mentioned it after my last post. I then mentioned it to my father, who must have thought I was a bit worried about it.

In other other other news: for the second Wednesday in a row, we spent a significant portion of the evening without power. No giant hailstones today, but another rather nasty storm rolled through, and cut our power for a few hours. A few tornados touched down around Central Ohio, and Debbie saw something that appeared to be a funnel cloud as I came home.

Words you like never hear me say:

Mad ups to Michigan! Well, a particular city in Michigan.

LANSING, Michigan (AP) -- The State Board of Education on Tuesday approved public school curriculum guidelines that support the teaching of evolution in science classes -- but not intelligent design.

Also, I'm not a father yet.

monday update

I'm not yet a father.

I'm mad at poker again.

That pretty much sums it up!

baby's room

So Debbie and I painted the baby's room a couple weekends ago. I finally got around to taking a couple pictures of it... this one's pretty good...



Debbie is still not due for 2 weeks, but she could go any time now. There may be a picture or two of Jason Jr. posted here when he arrives.

hailstorm

This evening Columbus saw it's worst hailstorm in quite some time. I was about to step in the shower when I heard pounding all around the house. I threw some clothes on and took a look - and saw massive hailstones falling all around. We lost power, and the siding sustained some relatively minor damage. Fortunately, no windows broke. Here are some pictures:

Pokerstars is running their annual World Championship of Online Poker. Today was the main event, $2500/100 to enter, $3M guaranteed prize pool. I satellited in Wednedsay, and have been very stoked to play since. I've been working very hard to get back to teh top of my game by today, and felt very confident. The turnout was unreal, 2510 entries for a $6.275 million prize pool. First place is scheduled to receive $1.157M, although likely will not because a deal is sure to happen.

Early on I was fortunate to get several big hands, and was able to chip up nicely. I flopped a set in hour one and took a sizable pot, though my opponent folded after putting a big chunk of chips in. In hour 2, I flopped another set with 99 on an AA9 flop, and my opponent (same one as before, actually) could not get away from his AQ. That gave me a very healthy 25k stack (we started with 10k in chips). I lost about 6k by the end of hour 2, including a hand at the end of the hour when the server skipped. I would have made a play on the river that would have worked, and it cost me 10k in chips, which sucks.

Unfortunately, from that point on, I really struggled to get hands. I was able to increase my stack steadily with an occasional hand and very good positional play. Unfortunately, around 8 or 8:15 my table broke, and I moved to a new table.

I hate table breaks. I had a very good feel for my table, and then I moved to this new table that everybody knew about everyone else and would now watch me. Ew. I ESPECIALLY hate table breaks when it's a sign that I will never ever receive another hand in the entire tournament.

I got up to 47.7k in chips after winning a pot with AK on hand 10 at that table. That would be my high water mark, as for the next 80 hands at that table I got very little service. In those 80 hands I got AJs once, JJ once, AJo once and 99 once - and the 99 was the hand I went out with.

As I just mentioned, I ultimately went out 55 spots shy of the money (330 paid, i went out in 385th) when 99 lost to AQ. It's been a while since I've whined about this, but... Yeah. I really really could have used a coinflip win there.

So, how cold was I? As I mentioned, I was dealt AK on hand 10 at that table. Here are my last 80 hands:

92s, 82o, T7o, 35o, A2o, 55, JJ, J6o, J5o, A4o, KQo, 36s, J3o, A4o, K5o, J6o, A9o, Q5o, J3o, 94o, J2o, 69s, 75o, A2o, KTo, A5o, 74o, A8o, K9s, K5o, 66, T4s, 85s, 97o, 89s, 36o, 65o, J3o, A6s, 47o, Q3s, J9o, 8Ts, Q2s, T2o, 97s, 8To, T2s, 46o, 59o, K7o, KTs, A5s, JTs, A2o, J5o, A6s, K9s, 74o, J3o, JTs, K8o, Q6o, Q4o, 49s, T5s, Q5o, Q3o, K9o, K2s, K2o, JTo, 27o, K5o, AJs, AJo, 97o, A4o, and 99

As you can imagine, those last couple of hands (AJs and 99) looked like AK and AA, respectively...