So in an effort to torture myself, I decided to try to run up the 2k that was left in my account. I started off at 2-4 buying in for 80, and ran my account up to 8k moving up in stakes. I took a shot at 10-20 and 5-10, but lost money there. Absolutely crushed some HU cap plo, so that helped a lot. I find that I do rather well there, maybe I will just sit HU cap plo all day and you guys can come challenge me.

It felt good winning, but I find that when I do this I automatically run like god. By do this I mean, have a crappy day at higher stakes, then try to refocus much smaller. It is kinda neat how it happens, but I guess it makes me feel a lot better that I am not a complete scrub at this game. Well, maybe I am, who knows.

In other news, I went to the doctor today to get an MRI for my shoulder. I ripped it out of socket senior year of high school causing me to quit playing baseball, but never got surgery. Why I didn't get that surgery is beyond me, as it will be a much bigger hassle at this point in my life. I think I was just depressed I couldn't finish off the season and was just pushing all ideas away, even good ones. Over the last couple years I have been more active, and it has been giving me problems, sublexing easily if my arm gets in certain positions. Quite problematic if I want to throw a baseball, do some jiu jitsu, or even try to do a pullup.

Anyways, I am paying for that now. I went in expecting to just go through the tube for 20 minutes or whatever, but I got in and had to fill out 45 minutes worth of paperwork. Then I went back and the nurse started talking to me about injecting fluid in my arm blah blah and I'm like whoah, I thought this was a glorified photo shoot. Turns out it wasn't. 2 hours later I am told I have to rest my arm for 3 days and can't pick up groceries. It doesn't feel pleasant.

Tomorrow I have a nice lazy day. I am going to get some stuff in order, run some errands, and get ready to head back to school and Santa Fe Friday morning. I am still moving into my house there, and currently have fold up table and chairs for furniture, but will have that stuff in order within the next couple weeks. Turns out it isn't so easy to buy and move into a house while going to school. Who woulda thought?

Some of you may know that I took up boxing when I started school. I have really been enjoying it, and am going to start taking it a little more seriously. During the fall I would have boxing club practice twice a week, and I would swing kettlebells around or play random intramural sports the rest of the time. I am planning on signing up at a boxing gym and adding in a few workouts there per week. It is a great workout and I love the competition.

At the end of the semester we had an exhibition. In total the club has around 25 or 30 members, and 16 people turned out for 8 fights, including 2 girls. It was a lot of fun, and I had a reason for once to focus on my training. I get lazy sometimes when there is little goal in sight other than just staying in shape. This time I was trying to prevent getting my ass kicked in front of a bunch of people. Luckily, we got it on video. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZIzBdQTG6s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSJAmzMHTzA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEmedyVE8ig&feature=related

-David Benefield