Bar league poker

I've been playing poker in some local bars, and am getting into the swing of things. It took me a couple of weeks to get a feel for how the games go, but I'm picking up speed now. Monday I got to a final table in an MTT with 30+ entrants. Last night was sit 'n go night. You get to play in as many single table tourneys as you can during the given time. I played 5, and got points in 4 of them (two 1st, one 2nd, one 3rd, first 3 spots earn points). If you're the points leader for the week, the league sends you to a local casino on Sat morning for a $90 buy in tournament. I'm debating whether I should play tonight. As far as I can tell, I'm sitting in 3rd place for the weekly points competition, at 165. The leader and 2nd have 232 and 182, respectively. 1st in tonigt's tourney is ~180 points. It's conceiveable that I could get the weekly, but you need to buy a membership to the leage to be eligible for that competition. Jenny also has planned a 30th birthday party for me that starts Saturday afternoon. Crap. What a dilemma.

More chemo

Brown's blood work was fine, so it's on to round 2. I started it yesterday.
We didn't notice him acting strange or anything. He did very well last time. I don't expect things to be any different for this round.

Chemo for Brown

Hola, amigos. What do you hear? I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya, but things have been crazy. I can sum it all up in one word: work, and the dog. Okay, that's more than one word, but I think you get the gist of it.
Sorry for the above. It's the Jim Anchower in me. I couln't help it.
Brown had his appointment with the cancer doc today, is going to have chemo. Fortunately, it's just pills, and it's pretty low key stuff. There are very few side effects associated with this medication. The Dr. also said that, given the surgical reports and her own examination, it's likely that he has 18-24 months if he has no additional treatment. Even though that brings him up to normal large dog life expectancy, we're going to do the chemo because of the low incidence of side effects and the fact that he acts so damn young. However, at the first sign that this is causing him any grief, I'm stopping it. The only reason to do this, as far as I'm concerned, is to extend the QUALITY of his life. Also, the doc doesn't recommend radiation. Yay!
For the work part, well, work is a pain. I wish Brown could maul it for me.