{"id":1690,"date":"2005-01-06T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2005-01-06T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T07:29:00","slug":"friends-only-cant-sleep-clowns-will-eat-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/06\/friends-only-cant-sleep-clowns-will-eat-me\/","title":{"rendered":"FRIENDS ONLY: Can&#8217;t sleep, clowns will eat me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s 1:30 am. I really should be asleep.. But of course I&#8217;m not. <\/p>\n<p>The reason this post is friends only is because it&#8217;d probably be bad for work to see that I am taking Thursday off for an interview.<\/p>\n<p>I relaxed tonight by going to a casino. I took $100 to a 3\/6 table. (A longer post will come tomorrow on my poker filter). The table was full of calling stations (people who pretty much ride a hand into the ground).. I went down slowly with a continual array of bad cards or good cards with bad flops. Finally, with a nut flush in my hand I went down to the felt, won and started to come back up. My best hand of the night was pocket kings. I pre-flop raised. The flop came down K66, And I took in about 100 for the hand. I got as high as $220. I left the table with about $200 in winnings. So.. doubling up not bad.<\/p>\n<p>As for Thursday. I have had two phone interviews with this company. The position is exactly where I am in my career. I have strong familiarity with the technologies and a strong balance of leadership for the rest. It&#8217;s going to be a grueling day tomorrow with 6 30 minute session with everyone from techs on the team to the manager, to the manager&#8217;s VP boss, to the manager&#8217;s peer that I&#8217;d have to interact with.<\/p>\n<p>Things have gone fairly well so far on this front. Like I said, there have been two phone interviews. Both seem to have gone well.I have to admit.. I want this one. It may have some strong reprocussions in my life. Which so as not to put the horse before the cart, I will deal with and talk about when the time is more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>All I can ask now is that anyone who reads this journal send happy thoughts of strength and success.<\/p>\n<p>I had a chat with Luck (or more accurately my HGA) at the poker table last night. As the Casino played wall to wall 80&#8217;s music (and some of my favourite stuff too \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Well, luck looked at me and said,<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s never smooth or what you expect. But if you know how to back off the crap and let someone else handle it&#8230; If you only bluff when you know you&#8217;re gonna take it all, and stick to the stuff you know is golden&#8230; You&#8217;re good. Start messing with crap you know damn well will bite you&#8230; and you&#8217;re gonna get bitten.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kids, the secret to kaballah isn&#8217;t adding it up. Kaballah is realizing that &#8216;it&#8217;s all the same&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So above, so below.<\/p>\n<p>I just have to tell myself I&#8217;ve already got the job. I just haven&#8217;t reached the date where I can prove it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, for now&#8230; I got the interview.. Wish me luck. Wish me a helpful HGA \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Hmmn. 4 hrs 20 minutes of sleep. 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