Well, here I sit in my chair on Tuesday night after a long productive day. Before I get into the rest of the post, I just watched a segment on “Second Life” a few minutes ago. All I can say is that anyone who thinks online poker players are degenerates or addicted to the computer needs to read about these crazy fucks. If you live your life vicariously through an avatar, you have issues.

Anyhow, let’s get right into the WSOC. On Sunday my good friends and neighbors celebrated the first annual labor day World Series of Croquet. My wife was thrilled when she found out I mowed a croquet course in our well maintained front yard….. Apparently she doesn’t realize the importance of “The Rough” when playing in a world class croquet tournament. Camouflage shorts were not mandatory, but highly recommended as you can see.

The field was a tough one that consisted of myself, “Neighbor John”, “Neighbor Jay”, and our special guest “Dave”. No doubt this was probably one of the toughest groups of croquet players ever to come together in Illinois. Not too mention the course was amongst one of the top in the country. We’re talking rough, bent grass, driveways, sidewalks, mulch, and streets. Here are the competitors posing for the fans before the match.

The first match proved to be the most difficult. There were several lead changes and the entire field struggled on wicket #5 on the front nine. I actually took a full back swing and clobbered Dave’s son in the leg with a croquet ball on #5. So if you see a new member named Dave at Poker Affiliate World, there is a good chance I got sued and he now owns my equity. The winner of the first inaugural match and more importantly, the winner of the coveted Beer Growler was none other than Neighbor Jay. Let me be the first to say Congratulations.

The following two matches were dominated by Neighbor John. These wins however are still under review pending an investigation on illegal enhancement drugs that may have been used prior to the tournament. At the time of this writing John is still refusing to piss in a cup. He offered to piss in a shoe………we really don’t know what to make out of this. Perhaps it was because his maid was sitting in the box seats spectating.

When it was all said and done the Results were written on the driveway as can be seen. Yes I was skunked in croquet, but I do feel there was a bit collusion and shenanigans going on throughout the evening. Nonetheless, it was a great tournament and a fabulous way to cap off a Labor Day weekend.

As many of you know I had a shitty week last week for multiple reasons. Well, the good news is I have shaken all that off and I am very excited about the next three days of this week. There are so many exciting things going on in my business and personal life right now that I am not going to let one bad week or bad event ruin my mojo.

Not only is today a new week, we are starting a new month. I have never been more excited about a month than I am Sepetember 2007. I expect some very big things to happen this month. In fact tomorrow I am going to write a business post about one of the things that have guided my success throughout the years. That thing is “expectancy”. If you do not expect great things to happen in your business or personal endeavors, they never will.

There is a big difference in “hoping” something will be successful and “expecting” it to be a success. I hate when people throw a new business idea, and say “Dude this could be huge”…..I hate could be’s

Oh one last thing, I funded the first studio recording for an up and coming band. If they go big I’ll be pimping around the country on a tour bus with groupies…… (I hope my wife doesn’t read this post)

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