{"id":8659,"date":"2011-01-14T17:51:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T23:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=8659"},"modified":"2011-01-14T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T23:51:16","slug":"tonights-plans-just-changed-from-reading-to-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/tonights-plans-just-changed-from-reading-to-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight’s plans just changed from “reading” to “beer”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week a package arrived… the latest book by poker pro Dan Harrington, Harrington on Online Cash Games; 6-Max No-Limit Hold ’em<\/a> $\"\"$ . I took it to work so I could read it on my breaks and at lunch. By afternoon break today I was down to my last 100 pages. “I’ll stay home tonight and finish it, and then start applying what I learned tomorrow,” I thought.<\/p>\n

As I came back from my afternoon break, I thought to myself, “It probably doesn’t look good for me to have a poker book sitting on my desk, given that I work for a company that sanctions bridge.” So I stashed the book under my desk, out of sight, on top of my computer.<\/p>\n

Bad idea. I hid the book too well. I forgot to take it home.<\/p>\n

So, reading plans canceled for this evening. Time to catch the last hour of happy hour at the Saucer. Possibly other bars on the agenda later tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"