It is now 2006, and I had some interesting days coming up to New Year's Eve. I got into town on Thursday night and called my buddy Dan, he informed me they were going to his sister's apartment and that I should stop by, so naturally, me being the beer lover that I am, I got there as soon as possible. When I got there they had the beer pong table setup and ready to go, WOOHOO! Now I just had to wait for the first game to end and find a partner, my partner actually ended up being Dan's sister Carly, and we played against Dan and Curt. Here was my problem tho, I love playing beer pong, and we were playing 12 cup instead of 6, and I was putting two beers in my six! Hmmmm...this could get dirty, I was actually quite pleased with Carly's performance at the table, most girls are god awful at beer pong, but she held her ground well, and actually bailed me out a few times. Now the night gets blurry, after my 8th or 9th game of beer pong I wandered upstairs (to puke I think?) and passed out in the bath tub, come to think of it, I wonder if I even puked upstairs??? Well, anyway, then Curt and Adam came upstairs and started doing shit to me, so that was when I decided to go down stairs and take a shower, I remember getting in the shower and nothing else. I woke up in the morning, and man did I do a number on Carly's apartment, I don't even know if I did all the damage but, I am pretty sure it was me. I felt really bad and tried to help clean up a bit, but I was so damn hungover everytime I moved I felt like I needed to go puke again. So I gave Carly some money for the damage (hopefully enough :-/) and hope to be allowed to drink with her again at some point in time.

I got home and have essentially played zero hours of poker again, all I do is play XBOX 360 with my bro, hangout with friends, watch tv, or walk the dog. So I don't have any poker stories :-( But I did finally beat my brother at Call of Duty, WOOHOO!!!! I found my bread and butter, the trench gun, he can't touch me when I have that sweet baby, I look forward to thrashing him again today.

On Saturday, me and my bro went to Duluth and watched the Ringer, it was an ok movie, not super good, but had some funny lines in there. It's prolly worth the trip to the theater if you're bored. We then got back and played some games, watched some movies, and I waited for Dan to call me, he finally called me at like 11, and I was on my way to Superior. Luckily, Dan scored an extra wristband and I was able to get in the bar and get my drink on. It was pretty fun, I saw a ton of people from Two Harbors, including a bunch that I haven't seen since high school.

So that was pretty much my New Years', nothin too exciting, but it was nice to hangout with the Dornfeld crew again, and visiting the family. I should be headin back to the cities either Sunday night or Monday sometime, then its time to get back on the saddle again. It's now 2006 and my earnings start at $0, I closed out 2005 just under $25,000, and frankly I have no fucking idea what I did with any of my profits. I know I need to work on my money managment skills, and plan on implementing a system to help me with it this year. Pure and simple, $25,000 shouldn't just up and disappear, but hey, my family always has been good at blowing money, heh. Hope 2006 has good things in store for all, talk to ya!

-Bakken