Matt and Rhya’s New Workout Plan

No, you don’t need to check your weave. With a bun in the oven, Rhya and I decided to add an elliptical trainer to our basement home gym for Christmas.

We went around to a few different places and jumped on some, and the FitnessQuest Elliptical 4100HR (here is a picture of ours) was the one that hit our price/performance ratio just right. To tell the truth, it was manufactured better than most ellipticals twice its price.

By the way, Galyan’s is having a pretty massive holiday sale. Just don’t expect them to be quick when you check out.

5, 6, 7, 8…”Hello, my name is Rhya from Peoria, Illinois….and with Matt and Rhya’s new workout I was able to get a baby daddy, get new windshield wipers put on my Accord, and what’s most importantly….I don’t have to drive down to the ghetto-plex no mo’”….work it….”mo”

First Snow (End of Nov.)

I’m definitely late with this one, but we had our first snow on November 24th. I snapped a few pictures, but I was too cold to get very many.
Here is a sample that links to the album:

I had to go out and buy a snow shovel and new windshield wipers for the cars. Incidentally, the next day (Thanksgiving), the Hofers counted 44 cars in the ditch from Bloomington to Princeville (about an hour drive). Speaking of the Hofers, here is a quick picture of Brooke and Bennett (our niece and nephew) riding home with us.

It’s kind of dark, but we’re still getting used to the camera.

CSS Christmas

CSS makes it really easy to turn mattandrhya.com into mattandrhya.com:xmas. I’m thinking of trying new colors for every major holiday or season. Any comments?

You can use the CSS Validator at the bottom right to check this page, and to learn about style sheets in general.

Day Late….

BrandonsWorld: When was Pearl Harbor, Price, or don’t you know that?

I hope you were all able to take a moment to reflect on Pearl Harbor yesterday. I had forgotten until I read Brandon’s post last night.

The Cub Reporter: It’s Official

Cubs sign Nomar

I linked to another blog telling the story, because it is the best Cubs site that I’ve found so far. I’ll add a link over on the right, also.

Police: Football Player May Be Campus Flasher

ClickOnDetroit.com – Sports – Police: Football Player May Be Campus Flasher

For those of you too lazy to follow the link, a University of Michigan Football player was arrested for indecent exposure on the porch of a house full of girls (maybe a sorority?). Basically, from all the reports that I’ve heard, he threw a bunch of rocks at the windows, and then proceeded to “take care of business”.

The kicker? They don’t think this is an isolated incident. They believe he can be linked to around 16 more of these “flashings”.

Chip: It’s going to be awfully hard for Michigan to win one-handed.

ESPN.com – NCF – Bowl Schedule

ESPN.com – NCF – Bowl Schedule

I’m glad I’m not an alumnus of Auburn or Cal. What I don’t get is that every year people complain about the BCS system, but then the same screwy hijinks happen the next year with no resolution in sight. I wish I had a link to the ad that Nike ran early this year, with the brackets.

Tourney Loss, Tourney Win

Alone time. This is a thing that is in abundance when your wife has a little one growing inside her. Why? Because when the baby wants to sleep…the baby wants to sleep. And, I think the baby takes after Rhya because he/she presents a very persuasive argument and leaves Rhya no recourse.

This happened last night (in the smack-dab middle of Elf). Rhya’s out like trout. So, I played a game of NCAA 2005 (last game for Wesleyan’s 2006 season: IWU 20, Tenn. 0, and my CB got the Heisman…maybe time to bump up the AI). When that was all over, I tried to wake Rhya up (she usually only likes to take hour naps, so she can still try to sleep at night). Nothing doing last night.

So, I think, maybe I’ll jump on UB for a bit to play some penny poker. Then, I changed my mind and started playing the $.10-$.25 no-limit table. To put that in perspective, the average pot size is around $4.00 per hand. I played on a table for about 25 minutes, and was up $22. People started leaving the table, and I decided to take my winnings and play in a $10+1 sit-n-go tournament. The $10+1 refers to the amount paid to play…$10 goes to the pot, and $1 goes to the house. There are 10 players (at least at this sit-n-go..there are 6 person and 2 person sng’s also). So, that brings the prize pot up to $100. The distribution for winnings is as such: 3rd place gets $20, 2nd place gets $30, and 1st place gets $50.

I got 5th.

Boo. I was pretty upset with my play, but truth be told, I kept getting good cards, but really bad flops. That will eat away at your stack in a hurry.

So, I decided that I would use the remaining $11 of my winnings to see if I could get in the money again. Maybe it was a stupid idea, but there have been only a handfull of times that I have been shut out twice in a row.

So I played. You start out with 1000 chips, and the person with 10,000 at the end wins. I got hurt a couple times early, putting people on the wrong hands, and my stack whittled down to 483 chips, at a time when the table was 6 handed (which means that most people have over 4 times the number of chips that I do), and was in danger of going out on a hand that I held A3 as the dealer, and the BB held K8. Of course, I didn’t know what he had, and the flop came Q38. He bet small, I figured he had squat, and that I could make a move and take the pot. Unfortunately, when you are that short-stacked “making a move” means throwing all the chips in the pot. I blanched when I saw his pair. Then, the turn and the river came, making the board Q383A. My bottom pair turned into a full house. I quickly doubled up, and was able to build my chips up enough in the later rounds to bully a bit.

I won.

So, net winnings for the night: $50. Don’t think I’ll be quitting my day job soon. Unless someone wants to bankroll me