Free Right

Almost 4 weeks. That's how long I've been in California. And I'm finally starting to make some progress. I'm going to lock up two jobs this Tuesday: Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) and Clean Water Action. Between these two gigs and my ever growing hair, I'm well on my way to being a quintessential California hippie.

Despite my bad luck with internet poker in January, I began playing again yesterday. The poker bug bit me again after I played a single-table tournament with some of my brother's co-workers on Wednesday night. After playing with a small stack most of the night, I sextupled up with a full house on the flop. I went on to win second place. As the only person under 30, I represented the early-20s demographic. And represented it well. Thus, I couldn't stop myself from gambling online.

I'm playing a tournament whilst I write this entry. So far today I have placed in the money 50 percent of the time-- two 1st places and three 2nd places.

Soon I won't have to do this to subsist.

The Weather and the People of the Bay

In the month I've been here, I've noticed some odd behavior from the people living in the bay area. NOTE: These observations are from the POV of a person from rural, temperate Pennsylvania. The people living in Oakland and San Francisco wear parkas in 40-50 degree weather. Unbelievable. In mountainous central PA, we wear shorts when it hits 32 in the winter.
In addition to the overdressing, these people freak out when precipitation falls in forms other than rain. Hail covered the city today with a 1/4 inch of M&M-sized ice balls. It was like 28 Days as the people, as though possessed with a mind-altering disease, danced in the streets and threw handfulls of ice at one another. I suppose going mental when it hails is a small price to pay for the otherwise beautiful weather in the Bay.

Stay tuned later this week to see if I'm actually employed after Tuesday!