We spent most of the day getting ready for our trip. When you have kids, vacations are a lot of work. Not only do you have to pack your stuff, you also have to pack everything your kids may need (which ends up being more than your own stuff). This time around, we're splitting up the kids so we had even more things to consider.

Since we've had kids, we haven't travelled much. It seems like every "family" vacation we've had have been disasters, so the week-long vacations start getting further and further apart. We had been mostly going on 1-3 day trips in the area.  Now that G is six and a half and we're leaving D behind, I'm hoping that this one will be more enjoyable. Not holding my breath tho.  Series of trip reports to follow.

But the timing's pretty good because I could probably use a break from poker. The downs of the poker grind don't affect me, but considering I went thru a 120K hand break-even, a small boom and now a 30K hand breakeven, maybe a little time off is good.

Obviously, I'm going to try and enjoy Orlando with my family, but my plan for some of the down time during my vacation is just to watch some poker videos on my itouch and reviewing some of my preformance stats in my Hold Em Manager. I find that pretty relaxing and entertaining. I suppose a good test of whether you *really* enjoy poker is whether you're still interested in it when things aren't going well.  I've already started thinking about future adjustments and am looking forward to getting back.  So for now, it's a YES!

Oddly, I take more interest in poker when things go poorly than when they go well. It's probably related to how I keep wanting to play when I'm down. I'm a good loser, but I hate to lose.

 

WHAT'S FOR DINNER?

 

Mrs. Fly makes a pretty good meatloaf.  It may be hard to believe, but I actually do try not to eat "too much" red meat.  Seriously.  So as good as Mrs. Fly's meatloaf is, it feels a little wasteful to use up a serving of red meat on meatloaf.  I suppose my trinity of beef dishes is probably (not in any order): 1) steak, 2) beef bourguignon/pot roast/braised short ribs and 3) corned beef /pastrami.  When you can hire Charlie's Angels, you're really not going to be happy seeing  Inspector Clouseau at your door.