That’s what William said several times last night when we were at the hospital. Upon seeing her, he walked directly toward her with his arms outstretched. The third picture on her site is a small sampling of the hugging that William did last night. He even got to give his baby sister a big smooch. Obviously one of the big concerns with bringing home a second child is the reaction that the firstborn will have. To this point, it looks like William will be a really good big brother. Of course he’s always enjoyed babies, so maybe it’s just an extension of that.

Otherwise, not much time for anything else. I did play a quick poker tournament last night that was kind of fun. Second hand in, I had a small pair on the button, and the big blind raised it up to 15BB, then subsequently called by everyone at the table. Normally I wouldn’t play it, but I figured that if I hit my trips, I would easily triple up, so it was worth the risk. I hit the trips, but not only that, there was an ace, so I figured I’d have a good shot at taking some serious money on the pot. Small bet to me, chased a bunch of people out of the pot, and I called. Turn paired the board, so I had a full house. One guy bet it moderately and was called by three others, so I raised all in. Three of them called me, which had me a little worried, even though I had them all covered by a couple of hundred (see, they all played too loose in the first hand and lost some money, so I knew they were kind of loose in the first place.) Two people had aces, one guy had a flush draw. None of them hit, and I more than quadrupled my stack early. Not a very interesting story, but I had to establish the fact that I had a crapload of chips. A couple of hands later, I was dealt K10, and saw the flop cheaply, hit a pair of 10’s, but there was an ace on the board. Checked around to me, I tried to bet a little over half the pot to scare out the posers (nobody raised preflop, so the subsequent checks made me hopeful that there were no aces out) Instead of betting 90 though, I bet 920 (missed the delete key) Whoops. Not a biggie, should make everyone fold. Didn’t though. A guy with an ace came over the top. I think it was only another 300 to me, so I called him right away, even though I figured I was probably facing an ace - I still had 6 outs, so about a 25% chance of hitting one of them, which made it a cheap call to try and eliminate the guy. Sure enough, a king came on the river to put me in an even more commanding chip lead after having taken out four players in a 9 player tournament. I tightened right up after that, and managed to win it despite my betting blunders (Later I bet 60 instead of 600 etc.) It’s pretty easy to play tournament poker when you’ve got that much bigger of a stack than everyone else - the key is to not get too loose on the calls thinking about how big your stack is…

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Whatsamatta Homer? You’re not your usual effervescent self.” - Moe