Keys To The City

That's right I've got a new Ferrari sitting in my driveway right now. Be jealous, be real jealous. YEA RIGHT! Once again I've captured your attention using a youtube-esque headline to suck readers in. So now you're stuck reading this boring blog. I'll try to make it as interesting as I can... but I have to warn you guys that it's not "Ferrari" exciting.

Instead this blog is going to be "BMW" exciting. There's a new BMW sitting in my driveway. I picked it up about 2 or 3 months ago, but I haven't got a chance to write a blog about it. It's really not that exciting, your basic entry level BMW. However for me it's a pretty fun car to drive considering my last car was a soccer mom mobile. I went out the other day and took some pictures of it, so it was fresh out of the car wash at the time (hence why there is water all over it). Take a look at some of the pictures:


As you can see from the pictures, it’s nothing fancy at all. Car came with pretty nice stock rims which is a nice plus.


Final picture of the interior coming up:


As you can see the interior is really nothing special. It has a leather interior throughout with a small entertainment console in the middle. There is an iPod console in the flip up box between the two front seats which can be controlled through the entertainment console and the steering wheel. Other cool perks are auto-rain-sensing wipers and auto headlights (you can tell how low tech my last car was based on these comments).

I’m planning on writing an in depth review of the car at some point, but I’ve been relatively lazy as of late.

I’ve also been considering switching from a Blackberry to an iPhone lately. I don’t know whether I should give it a shot or not. Anyone have any feedback to contribute to help me make my decision? This is the phone I currently have (Blackberry 9700):



It’s served me well as of lately but I’m just debating whether an iPhone is more useful to me. I really like the personal hotspot capabilities of the iPhone, but I’m afraid I’ll lose track of my data usage (running an iPad off the wifi hotspot) and get absolutely screwed by my mobile company on data overages.

For those of you guys who haven’t heard the iPhone 5 is supposed to drop in September which is pretty exciting. These are still rumours however, so it’s all educated speculation (backed by reputable sources). The iPhone 4 already seems like such a complete phone, the only improvements I can see being made are improved screen resolution, higher megapixel camera, and faster processor. These all seem relatively unnecessary for the type of usage I would be subjecting the phone to though.

Anyways that’s all I have to write about for now guys! Thanks for reading my blog! I’ll try to make my next post more exciting!

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I’ve been trying to convince myself to start writing a blog for a while now, but I’ve managed to put it off for the last few weeks. I woke up this morning and had a list of things I had to get done… so far I’m making some progress. In case you haven’t figured out yet, there was no kidnapping.

If you’ve read this far… well I’m surprised to say the least. I thought most of you would have realized this blog will not be extremely exciting by now. Actually, that’s not true I’m selling myself short, I’ve got a lot of pretty awesome blog posts planned out for the upcoming week, so I think you guys should all enjoy it. I’m planning on updating it every few days.

For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Greg. I’ve been involved in the poker world for quite some time now, 4 years I believe. Some of you guys may remember me from the days of Baller Poker (when it was still around).

Supplements + Working Out

I put an order in for some new supplements last week! Over the past year I’ve gotten involved in working out a fair bit at the gym. Not to the point where I’m some big looking juice freak (not the look I want), but just trying to build muscle and generally stay in good shape. I’ve always thought guys who have really big muscles (and think they’re jacked) but have alot of body fat are complete fools. For anyone who goes to the gym you know exactly who I’m talking about! Anyways here’s a picture of the supplements I just bought (excuse the low quality blackberry pics):



I picked up a ten pound bag of ON Gold Standard Whey. This stuff is awesome, regarded as the best protein you can get your hands on these days. I picked a not so great flavour however, Rocky Road. Got a little too adventurous, I know to stick to the straight chocolate from now on. Usually end up taking 1 shake before my workout around lunch and one within 30 minutes after my workout.

I also picked up some ON Casein, which is a protein which takes longer to digest. The idea is that you take it right before bed so that your muscles don’t start breaking themselves down throughout the night! Went for cake batter… turned out to be an okay flavour, but not great.

I also bought a pre-workout because it was on sale. I’ve never been a huge fan of pre-workouts, seems like most of the time you’re just buying a powder loaded with caffeine (not a great thing to be putting in your body). One of my buddies that I work out with says he can feel his concentration increase and he gets a way better pump when he takes this stuff… I’ve yet to feel anything. Any of you guys use stuff like Jack3d?

Also got ON Multivitamins and Glutamine capsules. Pretty much just your standard multivitamin, but has higher amounts of various vitamins than normal multis since they are for working out. Glutamine just helps your body break down protein and build muscle. I’ve never actually taken Glutamine caps before, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to start taking them.

I’ve hit a plateau as of late in terms of building muscle. I’m 6’4 and around 215 pounds and I’ve been stuck between 210-220 for the past month or so. I’d like to add 10 pounds perhaps, but really not looking to bulk up much more than that.

American Players

I had a pretty awesome week last week. I helped a poker player I met from Miami come down and relocate to Canada (for the purposes of his Full Tilt Poker account). To be clear, he didn’t actually move down here, he just flew down for a few days so that I could help him set up a moneybookers account and get his Full Tilt account switched to Canadian residency status. Pretty pumped to say I got everything set up so that he was able to cash out the day after he landed!

So all in all he was pretty happy with the trip, and I was happy that I could help him out. It’s pretty incredible that Americans can’t cash out their Full Tilt funds, yet I was able to help an American who flew over to meet me get access to his funds within 48 hours! Needless to say I have a few more American players that I will be helping out over the coming weeks. I really feel sorry for all these Americans who are falling victim to all this ridiculous stuff going on with legislation and Full Tilt. At the end of the day PokerStars comes out looking like a real gem from all of this!

Grapples

I was out grocery shopping yesterday and I came across something that I had never seen before! I’m sure alot of you American guys have seen this already, but it’s new to me:



Grapples! Supposedly they are apples that taste like grapes! I wasn’t really sure if these are some sort of genetically modified foods or if they are something else! A friend was trying to tell me that they are just apples that are soaked in grape juice, but that didn’t really make sense to me. Anybody have any idea how these things are made! They cost $5 US for 4 of them. I figured I’d give them a pass since I already had some apples at home.

Anyways that pretty much does it for this blog! I’ve got some pretty exciting posts coming up, so keep reading! Thanks for your time guys!

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