Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Spent the day packing up for my trip tomorrow, making cowboy cookies for Nicole and her family and Kevin and his mom. Maybe we can make butter tarts for Neal and Karin. Packed light and got a new book to read.
Day - 932
Monday, June 7, 2021
Dead quiet at work today. I gave a presentation at our Monday admin meeting for an Open House in the fall, showcasing to friends and family what we've been doing this past year. Could be fun.
Day - 933
Sunday, June 6, 2021
A day of rest and relaxation. We made hamburgers and air fryer french fries for dinner. So good. Breezy again today. Just hung out in the back yard and continued reading my poker book and watching videos. So much to take in in this game.
Ideas stirring for a middle grade story of a kid who loves a girl who happens to be a poker phenom. Kid's dad is a poker coach and tournament master. So much overlap and life lessons in this simple card game. Poker has evolved much like life has evolved. It's more complicated, difficult, challenging, but also endlessly fun and interesting.
Day - 934
Saturday, June 5, 2021
Spent the day taking care of the Wu list, including buying a new humidifier at Home Depot, picking up a new outdoor umbrella at Home Depot, checking out propane tanks at Home Depot. It was windy today so no biking. Instead, read my Modern Poker Theory book. It's like reading a dense math text in school.
Day - 935
Friday, June 4, 2021
Let the weekend begin! We started the evening with an Eerie St. Theater horror film at Richard and Lisa's...Deathgasm. Super silly and hilarious horror flick from New Zealand. Definitely inspired by Peter Jackson. Hadn't seen one of these in a while.
Day - 936
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Quiet at work today, allowing me time to watch a few hold'em training videos. Learning how the pros handle C-bet decisions post-flop has been helpful. That's where I sometimes struggle. I'm identifying consistenly tricky spots to practice so that when I'm actually playing I know what to do. Because there are so many different situations that come up, it's impossible to know all spots, but having a general idea of the decisions I should make give the texture of the flop, opponent tendencies, my holding, etc. should be enough to navigate the tricky spots that will come my way.
Day - 937
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Wednesday morning meeting at 6 a.m. It was good. Lee was in Hawaii so we did not see him. Dorian arrived late but joined in the conversation without missing a beat. Tulsa has loomed large this week. The tinder box Greenwood was under suggests the outcome was inevitable. The KKK was on the rise in the 1920s. The messaging of so many generations allowed the masacre to happen. America doesn't do a good job of addressing that and the continued messaging that allows white supremacy to endure. That's what's tough about this topic. Many white people don't see white supremacy as a real thing, and yet, we go about our lives in full benefit of this fraudulent system.
Day - 938
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Alice came over to Oakland today and we went over to the Youngs for Lisa's birthday. Rossana cooked a few yummy dishes for Lisa, including a wonderful chicken dish that used a tangy, yummy marinade. We hung out in the back yard sipping mojitos. A wonderful evening!
Day - 939
Monday, May 31, 2021
Very relaxing Memorial Day. I played bridge with Alice's bridge group from 1-4. That was fun. I wish I had more time to study bridge. It's so complicated and so much of my time has been taken over with poker.
Day - 940
Sunday, May 30, 2021
We hosted a lunch for Jay and Cecilia today. I make cowboy cookies in the morning and we put the back yard together. We had poke bowls with hamachi, chicken katsu, cauliflower from the air fryer, pork belly cooked on the Korean BBQ, and cheese cake and cookies for dessert. I made them lattes. It was a wonderful visit!
I received a wonderful handmade pen and pencil set from Auntie Karen this weekend. So nice! Made of two different kinds of wood. I'm hoping to fly to Calgary in August to attend Connie's wedding. We'll see if Canada is open by then!
Day - 941
Saturday, May 29, 2021
We drove tp Redwood City and spent the afternoon at Patrick and Soren's house. They made a delicious lunch for us that included these flat onion pancakes that were so tasty. It was a bit windy but warm enough. Patrick and I played four games of cribbage. All good.
We came back home around 6 and didn't have dinner we were still so full. I spent the rest of the day reading.
Day - 942
Friday, May 28, 2021
A year after George Floyd and 100 years after Tulsa, we're still grappling with race in America. At work, I witnessed a fairly quick complacency about race, a strategy that leaned into "let's not talk about it." The anti-racist drum beat is loud this year. Here's a clip from Tucker Carlson, firebombing White Fragility and using every white male trope to dimish Robin DiAngelo's message:
Tucker is an interesting white guy. He comes across as the earnest anti-smug crucader for the little guy, but really he's just a disengenuous bully. He is so offended by White Fragility that he resorts to namecalling and insults while completing missing the major points of the book, that racism is not good/bad, but pervasive and all white people enjoy the unspoken privileges of their elevated caste based solely on skin tone. The denial here is something, but it exists throughout the country. It's what makes talking about race with white people so difficult. White Fragility is not a perfect book, but it captures certain truths about race in America that I haven't seen in any other book. Whenever a white person gets defensive about race, a red flag should go off. Tucker is a classic example, the guy who espouses replacement theory ideas on his vapid, insufferable show.
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