I broke down and joined facebook. We’ll see if I ever use it. They do make it really easy to find friends, join groups, and networks which is probably one reason its so popular.

I’ve been busy lately. I bought and finished BioShock already. Now I’m playing Team Fortress 2 which is excellent. If you haven’t seen the videos of it check them out, they are funny and I love the graphics style. They also kept a lot of the things that made the original Team Fortress so fun.

I’m also playing quite a bit of poker. The new house is pretty close to Garden City Casino and I feel like I can win at any except the very biggest game there which is a 40/80 limit game. My favorite games are the 20/40 limit and the 5-200 spread limit. The spread limit game is odd for non-regulars. It’s a $3 small blind, $5 big blind, and any raise can be a maximum of $200. So there are pots of $600 regularly. One bad thing about it is that the maximum buyin is $200, so if you bet $20 and get a couple callers then you might have just 1 more bet or 1 raise before you’re all in. That takes away some of the postflop fun and a player who hasn’t won a pot feels short stacked. I can see the value of a max buyin game, but I wish they’d raise the max buyin to $400.

We went to Cancun for 5 days last week. That was a nice break. We stayed at the Ibero Star Lindo hotel. It’s nice but because it’s an all inclusive resort, you really overeat while you’re there. Having 3 full meals a day is not good for the diet. Lucas enjoyed it too, he likes the pool quite a bit, but he got cranky on the plane.

The hotel was nice, the pools were beautiful. The beach itself was fine. We also went to Xcaret which is an ecological park, so a zoo with a beach more or less. The one day we went there was the only day it wasn’t insanely hot. There were some quick, cool tropical rains and it was a little overcast, so we were very fortunate not to turn into baked beans.