the cube

Been to sleep yet??...

NOT ME!!!

who has time to sleep when there are hundreds of dollars to be lost playing internet backgammon. Last night I got it in my head that I was great at backgammon and I should in fact supplement my income by playing backgammon after work.

Assuming this isn't complete gibberish because I was up playing backgammon all night lets take a look at the holes in the decision making process leading up to me signing up for a backgammon gambling sight.

Obvious Problems:

1. Gambling sights are generally evil and at the very least unregulated. I should probably avoid becoming involved in even less responsible activities

2. I am not that good at backgammon. Actually until I randomly played a game the other day I probably hadn't played backgammon in 2 years. In the 3 games I have played this year I 1. beat Ross who I consider a crappy backgammon player
2. lost to Ben who I also consider to be crap and
3. beat Hemmat (barely) who has never played before ever
Before signing up I probably could have imagined a scenario where I might encounter players who skill level exceeds that of Ross and hemmat. If I could of signed up for RossGammon.com where I only play Ross all day I might have had a chance at making money (although Ross does beat me a good percentage of the time) but I didn't sign up for RossGammon but an actual backgammon website with crazy turkish backgammon geniuses.
I do remember a time when I wanted to become good at backgammon and even picked up a book on how to achieve this but then I dropped it when it started to get all mathy.

3. I always drink after work. I forgot that when I am drunk I am incapable of not accepting the doubling cube. This means that a disproportionate # of games where I am already losing I agree to double the stakes of my likely losses.

4. you know what screw it I am done with this list I am just pissed off that I lost $50 us playing backgammon for 5 hours and now I haven't slept . I knew when I was signing up that it was stupid but like all the stupid stuff I do when I am drunk I just went ahead and did it anyway. It is like watching a really bad movie of yourself doing the dumbest stuff ever and having no control to change your ridiculous course of actions.

I am going to bed.
this post is going to need some pretty heavy editing tomorrow (today)
come say hi to me at work. If you come during the first 4 hours you can enjoy the time I am essentially working for free to neutralize my gambling debts.