Well I guess I missed my monthly update last month, so maybe that means there'll be two this month, who knows it's still early. I was able to go see Candlebox recently and let me tell you it was a great show. I can honestly say, it's the most fun I've had at a concert ever. They are out right now promoting their Greatest Hits Album, and if you have the chance to see them I would definitely recommend it. It's amazing how many people I've talked to lately who don't even know who they are, it's a shame because they put on such a excellent show.

I've also had the opportunity to see a lot of new movies in the past month. My Super Ex-Girlfriend was a decent movie, by no means spectacular but a good show -- probably more worth seeing once it's out on DVD. Superman Returns I rather enjoyed, yet most people prefer Pirates over it but I personally liked this better. Pirates of the Caribbean, I was able to see this movie twice once at the midnight showing and then the evening of the opening day. I enjoyed it, but it just didn't seem as great as the first one... I can't really place my finger on why though. It's definitely a hit at the box though, as at the time of this, it's already tripled it's budget of $225 million in sales. A couple movies out right now I'd like to see but will probably wait until DVD are Scoop and Clerks II.

DVD-wise I've seen within the past month or so Stoned (decent movie), ATL (so-so), Final Destination III (made the second one look good), The Benchwarmers (friggen hilarious -- still as funny as when I saw it in the theatres), and V for Vendetta (very, very good!). It's actually been rather slow on good movies being released on DVD lately.

And I'll leave you with this priceless picture from USA vs. China game on August 7.

After taking out $400 for my 2 new 19 inch LCD's I got 3 months ago, leaving myself with only $200-ish left online, I finally built it back up to what I was. I did this just by playing the small ($5+.50) SnG's following some bankroll management while learning in ways to improve my game as well. I have finally decided to move up to the $10+1 SnG's, which in my opinion are fairly similar to the $5+.50 ones, except there usually aren't as many loose cannons, but generally if you play tight in the beginning you can easily make it until half the field has been eliminated. From there you just have to base your play upon how your remaining opponents play.

If you're against someone who is overly aggressive, wait until you have a monster, and punish them. For people who are a bit too passive, play aggressive to them, but definitely be wary if they push over you that they probably have you beat. Anyways, I'm sitting at around $650 right now and have definitely learned a lot more about my game and keep trying to improve it each day. I may spend some FPP's some day soon on a book, since I have yet to read anything yet.

Following the jump, you can see a couple hand histories from today's tourneys. And if you are interested, here's a cool link that I got from a friend. I think the beats are catchy and that chick is a crazy cat.

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It seems that a few people have been able to find my site by searching on MSN for myspace.com sucks. I've decided to elaborate a little bit more on why my reasoning is for this and if you must use the site, at least follow some basic rules to not make it suck as much. (Please notice, I cannot emphasis enough as much.)

First and foremost, I must let it be known that I do in fact have a Myspace account (not hard to find if you have somewhat of a brain) but I prefer to not reveal too much about myself there. If you want to know more about me, I suggest e-mail OR AIM.

Reasonings for MySpace.com suckage

1. Users are vastly uneducated when it comes to linking of images and often just link to an image that someone is paying their hard earned money to host. Not such a big problem, but when you have the people that have so called 1000+ friends, that can add up to some bandwidth issues eventually.


2. Too much music - yeah it's nice to hear a song once, but I don't want to hear it everytime I load your page. (Yes, turning it off becomes a nusance.)


3. Spam - who the hell are you, and why are you wanting to be my friend? Send a message before you send an "Add Friend" request, but I guess some people are caught up and think the more friends you have, the more popular you must be!

WorstOfMySpace has a good help section on ways to not suck at myspace.

Don’t list your income. I repeat: Do not list your income. I can’t believe how many people do this!
First of all, it’s just incredibly tacky. Do you walk around in a bar telling people how much you make?

Second, because:

- “Under $30,000″, and you look like a loser
- “$250,000 and higher”, and you look like a prick
- Anything else, and you’re just boring average Joe

Best to just keep them guessing and make them find out what a broke-ass degenerate you are after you hit it.

Let's get real people, MySpace was a great idea -- but just has too many retard users. Help to educate them, for the sake of all humanity.

It's been almost three months since I have last smoked a cigarette. (Official as of April 8.) When it comes to finally kicking a habit that you know is bad for you but you continually do it all it deals with is will power. First and foremost though, one must want to actually want the change. This is entirely important, because if you don't then you are only fooling yourself and you'll end up back in your same habits.

Once you've decided you want change, make the change. The first couple of weeks are the roughest, and if you can make it through these then you can do it. But it isn't hard to resort back to your old ways if you aren't careful. One must realize that it takes will power at this stage to not go back. After three months of not smoking I don't find everyday things to bother me and want to smoke, but drinking is the huge issue. This is when I think to myself how long and well I've done so far, and if that doesn't help I think of the reasons why I wanted to stop.

As time caries on these urges will be die down faster and faster until they don't exist anymore. (In some cases though, they may never go away completely but because rather small instead -- as if to be gone.) Overall, just remember that you want the change -- it's up to you if you succeed, as it is your life and you control everything and have no one else to blame but yourself if you fail.

The 2005-2006 NCAA Basketball season is officially over and the Florida Gators won it all. Some things of interest throughout the tournament and season are that Florida started the season hot and finished hot as well, they deserved to win. The Big East was by far the hardest conference of the year and got the most bids into the big dance, yet not one team made it to the Final Four. The ACC, who many announcers go on and on about, didn't even have a team make it to the Elite 8. The SEC, who was thought to be on a down year had two teams make the Final Four. Finally, Billy Packer still needs to quit or just shut up and sit there, he's got to be one of the worst announcers ever -- not to mention ignorant. When a guy can't even read off a piece of paper correctly, perhaps you should find another profession. (Referring to his foul up on the announcement of the brackets when he started reading off the wrong bracket.)

I've also finally updated the DVD List again, adding 34 new movies. Hopefully from now on I shall update it on a daily/every other day basis - this also depends on how frequently I get new movies.

This site is finally created and you may notice is uses the same design as my old site, which makes sense because I just moved everything over from it to here. The only considerable change is that I now have another domain to go along with No-Doubt.net and behind the scenes I have switched from Movable Type to WordPress.

Don't expect too much from me over this weekend though as I will be out of town but I have many thoughts that I think I may be posting in the near future.

List is completely up to date now. Although more will be added tomorrow. So check it out!

I'm tired, I got a gym membership, stopped smoking 4+ days ago, have a crapload more movies (i'll update my list sometime this weekend or next, whenever i get a chance) and cds now, love new laptop, kansas beat colorado yesterday (we r0x0r), played 3 sng's today (placed 2nd, 1st, 2nd), and now I will sleep.

pwn will be in the dictionary one day, bank it.

Don't forget that, it's the truth.

Surprisingly not a horrible movie... I'd definitely check it out if you are bored. Otherwise, it's way too late right now, I'm tired, and I wish I was asleep like I was yesterday (which would be already for 2 hours now).

The last 6 tournaments I have entered I have placed in the top 3. Half have been first places, 2 seconds, and 1 third. Overall my bankroll is now at $423. In the past 8 days I have won about $150, all of which is going towards my move to go back to Ohio. The plan is that I will be gone by February 5. I am going up to Ohio for New Years this weekend and will be going back sometime in the beginning of January to find the right apartment.

Poker is becoming exciting for me again and I am playing solid once again. I realized that after my bad slide that I was becoming a bit too loose and needed to tighten my game up some. It sucks though, because once this move happens I won't have any money in Pokerstars anymore because I'll have to withdrawl everything. Hopefully by that time I can have around $800 which will definitely be of great help.

Poker is now not something to take my mind off of her but a means to help me accomplish my goal and not owe people as much.