dreams

 well its almost 3am, and im waking up in my room at Boomtown that i went to sleep in before 5pm.. instead of waking up multiple times in the middle of the night to use the bathroom i only woke up 3 or 4 times. good news is this being a friday night, ill still be able to find a poker game somewhere, the bigger problem might be getting a driver to come all the way out to boomtown, or maybe the normal $22 fare will be a $75 fare. their live BJ tables here close in the middle of the night at 1am, and dont reopen til 9am. and the vbj i used to play here in the middle of the night i no longer want to because its now 6-5 and it wasnt on my previous visit. 

Imagine how much of our lives are wasted sleeping 8-10 hours per day. we could be living almost 40 percent longer lives. 

I had a shit ton of different dreams tonight. In the final dream i just woke up from, I was in one of these huge houses i dream about (which always are ones my mom owns) and i hadnt been in the house, which is often the case. (is that because i dont go visit like she wants?) To her her house isnt really big nor were any of the ones she rented when i was under 18 that i grew up in, but to someone like me whose been homeless their whole life and lived in apartments and motel rooms much smaller, all houses are big. 

there are people in here to play poker, and i see the front door not closing properly and someone i dont know coming down from the stairs. and i see her bringing catered food from somewhere and i wonder whats going on. and another young black girl sits down nearby her to play poker and im picking up a shit ton of change off the floor, so much so that it never ends and i cant pick up all the money and then im shocked the girl is listening to gospel music and i congratulate her. 

in the earlier dream i am outside a building and i am talking to a young guy who was watching me and giving me shit in a casino and im telling him that i grew up in a way different era than him and thats why i believe so differently than him, and he tells me thats not true, and says do u know that people who are religious believe there were 4 different virgin births in the 1800s and to look it up. 

and then im about to be thrown out of a poker room by the police and im talking with the poker room manager, and she tells them to throw out Gary instead of me and i hear her telling Gary "ive never liked u, and u are not going to tell me who im going to throw out". And this lady has turned into Cathy woods. and im hiding under a blanket because we are outside and Gary is going to be irate with me, and i dont want him to see me when he walks by after grabbing his chips and then im inside a dark room and Gary comes by but hes turned into an alien with a very odd bony structure like from outer space and i think he is leaving but then he comes back and reaches out with his hands and i think he can feel that im under the blanket and i wake up. Gary is actually a real person who is quite hostile and unfriendly and helps JB start up the morning PLO game some days at the Peppermill. 

before this, my memory is starting to fade a little, but im some earlier dreams i was again in one of moms houses (truth is she only has 1) but im in an unknown room, and finding all kind of packages in there ive gotten in the mail and old mail i need to open and im trying to find all the $20 bills and checks that im trying to grab before the strong winds that yes are inside, blow everything away. and i see a big package that says this is your notification from a publication called singles scene spirt and life. now this is a publication that existed in TN 25-35 yrs ago and was sold primarily thru the mail. 

and another dream in which im flying up in the air and have just left a place where the people with me turned a howitzer on an airplane and i was afraid of getting in trouble with the government but then instead they went up and away and im flying over a plane that fell into the water

and also my cat got string tangled up all over and cant get loose and its caught in a shirt or 2 and a fan and i dont know how to get it loose and my mom is giving me a pair of scissors. 

i'm actually not getting anywhere in reno. i thought that i was when i was up 2200 in the first 5 days i was in town but im still 200 less than the 26200 i arrived off the plane from Houston with. and most of the trip except for last weekend, ive had free housing. that took a few hundred off the roll for housing and another 200 off the rolls for a few Ubers to carson and back. 

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well at least things are better, and im finally back to $1600 better off than when i first flew to reno, and ive got my room taken care of for the next 2 weeks set up. imagine how much better off id be had $1900 not been wasted on a 6-5 VBJ at boomtown over the weekend i stayed there. (if the pit was open between 1am and 9am, id have played their 3-2 live tables instead). 

have tickets tonight for Oreo speedwagon but dont plan to attend. i wonder what theyre worth? also i hear the room in lake tahoe will be open briefly all 7 days a week again sometime around november but only when a major wSOP tourney will be going on. then it go back to being closed 2 days a week. 

there seem to be many new AP machines i dont realize how they work. too bad Mickey or Yoshi arent still available to walk me around. 

i couldnt even win money finding a machine lit up with all 3 bags full of jewels. even lost $53. i do better when i find 2 bags full. but at least i seem to be winning almost every session of poker 300 or more. one day i won 1100 total at poker, 300 300 and 500. 

theres no reason i didnt post this blog a week earlier, except that i thought the post was too short. but its better to make short posts than none at all. 

reno trip report

 one of the nicest things about having an extra phone (although only 1 has a sim card in it with the tmobile network and can work to receive texts and browse the web and be used as an emergency wifi hotspot if i get stuck in a place the wifi wont work) but now if i play bejeweled for hours and it drains all the juice, i do it on the spare phone which is useful for nothing else. u see bejeweled doesnt need any internet connection. and this way i dont drain the power on the good phone. all i need to do is remember to charge them both fully while i sleep. 

not only this, but since the phone isnt doing anything but playing bejeweled i think the power is lasting longer since its the same as if it was in airplane mode since its not connected to a wifi or a simcard. 

that phone still shows the Houston time instead of the time here in Reno though. but at least now my computer is finally no longer 2 hours behind on its time clock. the new phone thats used for texts, calls, Uber etc, it shows the right time for reno. but i still dont know how to make my yahoo emails on the phone automatically type with much larger sized texts. my mom said to ask tmobile but i guarantee u they wouldnt want to figure it out. Lightning claimed he couldnt show me because he didnt know how, and Ray promised to show me if im ever in Toledo but he doesnt have a working car anymore and i wish Vince would buy him one. if i ever get back over 30k i need to go do it. 

no matter how bad of shape a new car under 3000 would be in it would be better than the old one with 300k miles on it. 100k and 300k miles could make a difference.. 

ive actually recovered money since coming to reno (only been here 3 days) but i won 300+ poker, $500 plus on a new EV advantage machine i dont understand yet (and neither did any other slot pros on twitter). guarantee u i just got lucky since i dont have any idea the correct numbers. then after that the following days i won another 300 at poker again, then 300 on another machine that i already knew the numbers on, and 100 more at poker. so yeah im up at least 1500 on the trip and still havent paid cash for a hotel room here. 

i was getting really tired of paying 400 a week for a not so great hotel and 650 a week for a really nice safe hotel in Houston. that is a real drain and i really miss living at Vinces house and Rays house. 

i really am going to miss bomb pots and PLO. u wont find bomb pots here in reno and very little PLO. 

also moving from one hotel to another continually (without a microwave to cook with and a large sized fridge) really limits what u can eat in the room without paying big prices at restaraunts. Uber fares are higher than i last remember here too now and its too unsafe to ride a bus even during the day. but thats only because i remember a guy starting a fight with the driver the last time i ever rode a bus in reno and ive never wanted to since. also im carrying too much cash on me in case i run past a machine in a huge plus ev state that might require a large investment. or i might need quite a few more rebuys in the poker game than i intended. i am going to really miss the long term hotels that are like apartments even though i can no longer afford them. and of course in Reno they would be like 170 a day instead of the nice one lightning found me in when he arrived that was like 90 a day. 

theres many cities around the country its unaffordable to get a place to live and where a large majority of the city is homeless due to it. think of spokane, seattle, bozeman, missoula, and almost everywhere in the far north except michigan and ohio. 

So many other countries around the world in Europe, Russia and China have such a better standard of living than the USA we really need RFK in office or we are just going to continue the downhill slide until we get bombed for not minding our own business in the Ukraine. the cost of a place to rent the cost of gas and the cost of food, would be far less than half of what it is now if it wasnt for US military spending in the Ukraine and on other useless adventures. 

now that i finally created a burner facebook account under a different email, i can now play games on facebook again and join groups for cities poker club groups. people without a facebook account are basically cut off from any kind of normal life in public. 

one piece of bad news for my longetivity in reno (which i wont exactly want anyway im only here to cut out hotel costs) but the games here not only suck because its mostly all NL, but the games are a bit more nitty and tight than i remembered previously. About the only good thing about Reno is there is more than 1location of a huge chain not offered in most cities that is a large sized low priced 24 hour grocery store similar to walmart or HEB. 

i also seem to have lost most of my spoons and ive only got 3 stainless steel spoons to eat with left. and ive hated plastic silverware my entire life. 

i think i left them in other hotels and they got mixed in with the hotels silverware. yes sometimes i took much nicer long term kitchen type places and the higher priced options include silverware. 

also none of downtown reno feels safe anymore to walk around outside in at night. 

i still need someone in reno to show me how the new regal riches machine at the atlantis works. (didnt see it elsewhere) the one with the new blue and orange levels and the extra money on the micro gray level (used to be colored blue on the old machines) that now includes dollar amounts on the wild symbols that increase the payouts. i know theres slot pros here such as Jaime Navarro who used to run the atlantis mix game. its a shame Yoshi is no longer with us. without the correct numbers i could lose my ass on it. but im sure theres plays left on it since its new. (although maybe its a trap to get people to take the plays way too low in which case they isnt plays on it). but then how did i win $500 on it? got me back from my poker loss at the atlantis that day.