1)

His acute fashion sense

Many thanks go out to Stephanie, who got him that fashionable top.  The Austin Lounge Lizards would be proud.

2)

His ability to sleep

Yes, that’s my boy, who was crying and carrying on while we put him down to nap one day.  After about five minutes, he quieted down.  When we checked on him, we realized that, while sitting up, he fell asleep (probably mid-scream) and just folded in half to go to sleep.

3)

The eyebrow

I don’t think I need to say any more.

It’s a year of firsts – and it was the first Thanksgiving as a family.  Of course, we spent it with Ash’s family as we would have had we not had our own child, but there was definitely something different anyway.  A potluck style meal, every aspect was delicious.  But probably most exciting was seeing Landen eat Ashley’s sweet potato soup and him nibbling on my stuffing.  I don’t know that I’ve ever seen Landen in such a good mood for an entire day before.  He was smiling from wake-up to laydown.  He didn’t even cry when he got up from his naps.  Must’ve known it was a good day.

It was all slightly marred by the knowledge that I have to work tomorrow, which is assuredly an eye-brow raising proposition, as my entire job hinges on me being able to speak to attorneys, approximately .09% of them who will actually be in tomorrow.  But I’m seeing it as entirely likely I’ll be able to skip out early.  We’ll see.

I will eventually have some pics that will prove quite definitively that Landen is my son, but I don’t have them yet.  It’s late and I’m pretty tired.

Another reason why it’s time for bed?  I played five very quick poker tournaments tonight.  In these, I was either all-in or called an all-in 10 times.

My hand vs. their hand (and flop if it happened already before the all-in) – % to win – what happened

J9 vs 89 (flop 9 7 4) – 78% favorite to win – split the pot on a runner runner two pair

AK vs J10 – 59% favorite to win – lost to two pair

88 vs A9 – 57% favorite to win – lost to a runner runner flush (I had trips)

AK vs AJ – 72% favorite to win – lost to a  jack on the turn

10 10 vs AJ – 57% favorite to win – won with the pair

JJ vs 22 – 82% favorite to win – lost to trip 2s

55 vs 54 – 79% favorite to win – won with a pair

AJ vs K10 – 62% favorite to win – lost to a pair of Ks

A7 vs QQ – 28% favorite to win – lost to two pair

10 4 vs 33 – 48% favorite to win – lost to the pair

As you can see, I was ahead (in 4 cases dominating) in 8 of the 10 cases, and ended up winning only twice.  Some nights, it doesn’t matter how smart you play, you’re just bound to lose.

I just had the ultimate WTF hand in online poker.  It’s a $10 table (fairly big stakes for me online) and it’s a 9 person table.  We’re down to 6.  I’m the second biggest stack at the table.  I get pocket aces.  Sweet.  A few calls of the blind (50 – I have around 3000 chips for comparison’s sake, so it’s obviously early on).  I raise to 150.  Everyone gets out but the bigstack reraises to 250.  I reraise to 500.  He reraises to 750.  I push all in.  He calls.  He has 8 5 off suit.

8.

5.

Off suit.

Guess what happens?  If you guesses he hits the straight on the turn, you’re right.  I’m still absolutely flummoxed.  Worst play I’ve ever seen online.  Hands down.  And it lost me 10 bucks.  Unbelievable.

I’m overwhelmed with the new house, a recovering baby, and the workday.  I posted Part 1 of 6 of my Theme-mail Noir short story to Will.  I’ll do one a week.  Hopefully you like it as much as I had fun writing it.  It’s not cute baby pictures, but it should do.

Head on over here.

Oh yeah, did I mention that it glows in the dark too?  ‘Cause it does.

You can go over here to see our pumpkin as well as a video.