I am one of the worst Bejeweled Blitz players you could ever imagine. Like, imagine a one legged frog on crack trying to jump from lilipad to lilipad without drowning. That's me playing Bejeweled blitz. My brain just isn't wired for the task. Yet I have a few friends I'm pretty competitive with who are fairly decent at it, so I can't stop till I'm good too. The game can feel like Chinese water torture at times though.

For as long as I can remember, I've always believed that listening to certain types of music produces different effects on my brain and its effectiveness/focus. I've found some songs result in more of a focused-trance type feeling and are good at drowning out all other thoughts from my mind other than whatever the task I'm focusing on -- kind of like how they always say to listen to classical music when studying.

Anyway, I've been testing out a lot of different songs with Bejeweled, and I think I've found a winner -- a song that actually gives me a chance at competing. It also happens to be one of my recent favs for poker since it's fairly hypnotic and repetitious -- great for clearing out my mind:

Here it is:





Poker has went well since my last blog a month ago. Don't got too much more to say about that really other than with a little bit of patient game selecting, I'm finding plenty of games to play in online, though it's not nearly as much $200/400 as in the past. Fine by me, I'll take a few tables of $100/200 and $50/100 any day if they're good games.


The Twins have had some amazing comebacks already this season. If the starters and relievers can pull it together, we can really do some damage in the playoffs I think.


I did actually create a video tour of my place, but wasn't happy with the quality of it because I shot it during the day light. I'll try another day sometime at night and hopefully there'll be a little less glare.


Finally, I really need to have a notebook and pen on me to jot down random thoughts. I always have these great moments of glory where something happens or I think of something and it makes me go, "that'd be a great thing to throw into a blog," then whenever I'm around a computer I've got no shot of remember whatever it was, meaning this blog sits here un-updated way too long. I'll really try to not let the next update be a month away.


One more song since one night I was playing and had more than one person say they wanted to see more music links/recommendations in my blog entries. Yup, these two songs in this blog are the types of music I'd generally pick to listen to while playing poker -- I think these styles best get my mind where I want it to be: