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| January 29th 2007
Monday Morning, I think back. Monday night I look ahead. |
"When
you play one of us, you play all of us"... |
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first time in the history of the team name Get in the Hole.
We won the first week of the new season. Please, don’t
think-I-think this is a good start for us or I am making a passive-aggressive
statement of a gloating nature. Nor am I saying it is a bad karma
that we got four wins ether, it’s just that, this has never
happened to my team before, ever, in any of my (our) years; even
when we were named Rumble fish. Every team that I know of, who
gets a head start in the first couple of weeks of a new season,
some how or another always ends up not placing, or struggling
for third place, why? Let go my Ego? The dark side of over confidence?
Lose of team momentum? Sitting in the vanity chair in front of
the mirror to long? Who knows; that’s just my years of
experience on the NYC APA. Hm? I could be wrong; this could be
a good thing. It could be that some team some were in the world,
won, every week in their division and their player’s
handicaps never moved up or down, what a dream. I will never
ask my players to sandbag or throw matches. --- |
Though,
I think, the APA Handicap system could have an element of inadvertent
design of an unpleasant result, of course this was not done
on propose. Any team with all eight players with big hearts and
ambition for a win, all players getting along with each other,
respecting each other and its management from both captain and
co captain might be doomed simply because the one thing we are
suppose to do for the big win will cause us to fragment due to
ruling technicality; 23 points. No matter what, when everybody
on the team gets along, synergy, with that inevitable win, will
get broken up, due to the rulings. When
you play one of us, you play all of us, the APA advertises
and pushes us to develop teams this way (having a 25.000.00 dollar
incentive) but at the same time, the rules are designed to break
us apart if this actually happens; maybe, I could be wrong. But
when players handicap goes up, and I expose my line up with the
very first player I throw out into the breach cause the only
possible players that can following the first player due to the
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Captain Larry of Los Macho's
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"When you
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Just looking back ....
not so far back though....
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| January 28th 2007
Sunday. About Saturday. |
Oops...
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I am resisting the
erg of my of late winter whiskey sopping. It’s
been a few days of my useal bumbling and stumbling around
like a weekend russian cowboy and I feel good. I think it’s
almost out of my system. I mean I’ve been drunk since
last November. I am going on day four with no booze in my system.
I'll subsitute my Whiskey for Sushi for
now
If your wondering...The snooker pics
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I played some snooker last night. First, some
nine ball @ BBC, then went off to china town for some
Snooker. Second time I ever played it in my life; Snooker.
It’s a
very relaxing game. Though one who engages in the sport
must know one has no room for sloppiness in there approach
and stroke on that kind of table (Snooker table) if
they intend to win a match or even a game. Man; after
a few hours on the football-sized table, I will never
view a nine-footer pool table the same way again. After
playing Douglas a few rounds of snooker I played on
a standard size pool table with Jason, it was like
a bar table, it was so so small, and the ball are so
close together and huge and primitive. Now, Just because
the table is smaller does not mean the game is going
to be easier.  Yes
for sure, you will pocket a ball across the entire
span of nine foot table a great deal easier, smoother
and more confidently with a much higher probably of
getting it in the hole, but you still would have to
play with the same amount of respect you would apply
on Snooker table. Wow! Man! I never thought I would
look a nine foot table like a bar table; ever! Later
that night, I went to the bar and the bar table was
like a toy. With all the balls compressed together?
It’s a whole
different game to me now; I was still not missing a shot
though. But my position and shape was less to be desired,
LOL. Yet still, I found myself trying to compensate for
size and weight of the balls. Did I mention I wasn’t
missing?
How you look at any pool table
is a state of mind.
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Hi My name is William Fuentes, and
Im not an Alcoholic.. A pool aholic maybe
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| January 26th 2007
Friday. About Thursday Night. |
D'uh
Hitman |
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Sometimes you shoot not to win...But just to
shoot.
   
Execution is key…. When done right, getting
the ball in the Hole is the inevitable. The inevitable shouldn’t
be the goal. The discipline in your execution should be.
   
All that racking
   
Made me hungry
   
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Thorsten
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| January 25th 2007
Thursday. About Wed Night. APA, The American Pool Players Association |
Wed
APA Awards for Summer 2006 |
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"A player who has-ta-beat his own
drum about how skilled he is
most likely does not have much to beat"
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| January 24nd 2007
Wed. About Tuesday Night. APA, The American Pool Players Association |
Tuesday
APA Play off's Second round |
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Congrats
Pocket Aces, for winning week two of the January 2007 APA
season playoffs quarter finals.
Now I have to hope we dont meet each other
in the final 8 of the APA city finals 2007, being that almost
half the team (Pocket Aces) is team GET IN THE HOLE. |
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| January 22nd 2007
Monday night. APA, The American Pool Players Association |
Monday
APA Play off's. Second round |
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Team Get IN THE HOLE wins the Playoffs... |
 Get
in the hole played tonight with a thing Pete calls synergy.
We pretty much all acted as captains, all even, for the last
few weeks. All agreeing on the line-ups, the match ups and
the option we created with what and whom we had available.
And what we had available was all eight of us, a whole or
hole team, respecting, agreeing and working together and
putting our best efforts to reach the common goal for this
evening. All egos aside. I hope we can keep up the pace to
the end of the goal.
Synergy or synergism (from
the Greeksynergos,
meaning working together, circa 1660)
refers to the phenomenon in which two or more discrete influences
or agents acting together create an effect greater than that
predicted by knowing only the separate effects of the individual
agents. It is originally a scientific term. Often (but not
always, see Toxicologic synergy, below) the prediction is
the sum of the effects each is able to create independently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy |
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Captain Jim Forster, a grand and noble
captain indeed. |
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| January 21st 2007 Sun. About Friday
and Saturday night |
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Double Combo Triple Carom on the
4,3,2,1,6 with a bank masse.
Eight in the corner.
Leave your money on the table.
Shoot Stick....
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I did anyway.s
And I woke up ok...But that still does
not mean its ok.
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knob creek and pizza
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This is one
big ass table. |
Get In The Hole
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| January 19th 2007 Friday. About
wed & thurs |
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a little. Ate a little… Abby
does not mind if her husband has a hooker on the side. Pool
is not really free at the E. Update; Ronnie owns the bar and
the pool table so Ronnie still owns all the team spots at the
E-bar, all of-em. Public-relation-managerial-tactics-is-a-critical-science-for-small-business-profit
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Thursday: Played a little, no, more to the point,
paid 8bucks to rack and watch JQ play. Then afterward, I ate
so much, no matter how many shots I did, I could not get drunk,
what a waist of money.
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Apparently lt snowed last night
Pool & corner hooked her on the last
shot
Abby is pretty Hot Mild when it comes
to relationships. Wed. |
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Someplaces just wont let go of
christmas. |
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X2 I ate...yes I did ....
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tapioca. |
 
 
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last Tuesday night. APA, The American Pool Players Association |
APA
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| January 15th 2007
Monday. Also about Saturday and Sunday APA, The American
Pool Players Association |
APA
Playoffs Round one. |
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Captian Alison
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Yes
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Just becuse something looks pretty
doesnt mean its going to be satisfying.
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The sushi was great
but the meal was a wee-bit skimpy for my taste.
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Early evening
sushi
 
Long practise makes for hungry bellies
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Rich complete's it
Pia pours it
And I drink it
George saves the day...agian
Discipline
Practice
The return of Pauline
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Booze,
Birthday and Cake |
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| January 11th 2007 Thursday. About
Wed, Thurs and Friday-day. My Rice Crispy told me too.... |
Go to The Root of the matter |
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 My
Quizilla test of the day Results ... Which Tarot Card
Are You? You are the Justice card. Justice preserves the harmony
of the world. Working with opposite forces, Justice does not
seek to criticize or condemn but rather to accept. The idea behind
the card justice is that opposite forces are complementary; you
could not have good without evil or light without darkness. Justice's
position is to make sure that if a thing is out of balance, the
weight of its energy is realigned with its opposite force. This
card is also a card of humour, for it is in pointing out contrary
positions that humour is often found. The attitude that is found
in the humourous person, being able to shift perspective and
flow with an instinct, is important in the maintenance of good
balance. 16285 other people got this result! This quiz
has been taken 528350 times. 6% of people had this result.
http://www.quizilla.com |
Thursday Jan 11th
2007 2:15pm. The Root of the matter.
It was dying…No
matter how many time I watered it moved it took care of it,
this plant did not want to seemingly live. The out side of the
plant appears to be fading. Issues like this need to be handled
carefully. They need tending to in a professional and adult manner.
The out side of it appears to be dead or dying but the inside
has something inside of it that wants to live, I can tell. It’s
hurting, it broken, so you try to trim the edges. Dust the
leaves, spray bottle-sprits the body with misty love and attention.
Talk to it, hang with it, give it drinks, changed and exchange
dirt once in awhile; Ya-know, that whole love consideration thing.
But it wont changed, it won’t budge, nothing is
working, it is in its downward spiral of wilted ness, eventually
death will occur. So I decided to go to the root of the matter.
Everything in life always stems from a root. I took the roots
of the plant and replanted elsewhere. These roots are strong,
I can tell, I can feel it. It has always been in my nature
to see the subtleties of life, people, places and things.
People hate me for it, people love me for it, friends, family
and so on. I have used it in my art, in my game, in my ways.
I always feel better when I drink a tall glass of water.
I think I might spend this year going to the root of the
matters.
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| January 10th Wed 2007. About
last Monday and Tuesday |
STICK
IT IN |
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Nice cold day....
For Best results, STICK IT IN the fridge
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Monday. About Saturday... |
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| January 5th Friday night 2007 |
Again...
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Sometimes we come
to conclusions in moments that seemingly have nothing to do with it,
your conclusion that is.
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hursday |
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Is this the closest to snow in NYC am I gonna get
from now on?
I’m walking down the street going towards my new
Billiard and Bar spot and find myself opening my coat
and my unzipping sweater and saying “whew its nasty
warm out here”…then I get frosty the plastic
man
I have a theory… Polar caps
melting, centuries of bomb testing, colossal explosions
from war year after year. Earthquakes tidal waves,
floods. Yes with these massive shifts on the planet
and weight transfer on the corners of the world. I
do believe, the world calendar is not aligned with
the planets new unnatural alignment on its axis. Even
a half a mile shift can throw our calendar off by months.
I predict in February we will have a long cold snap
the kind we should have had already in December. I
hope. I really do hope, cause right now I feel like
crap. It is so warm today, so unnaturally warm. I do
miss the breath of Jack Frost and the jubilee of his
little sister.
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Two eight on the breaks. Thank
you Gigantic Pockets on pool table, Thank you!!!
  
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Puru . com |
The pockets at Amsterdam Billiards
are very forgiving, the middle pockets are so wide
you'd think a bat was going to fly out of it any second.
the pockets are two and a quater balls wide.
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Olga
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Recovery.
Booze and Pool do not go well together |
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Sometimes I write things in my blog entries that having
to do with the images then again some times I do
its called sloppy blogging...sorry folks.
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of 2007 |
The
good the bad and the its ok |
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It’s
not me. Its you. December 2006. Lasting note about this past
year.
This past year (2006)
... I got rejected, the boot, pink slipped, kicked out, made
second too, MySpace-defriended, leftbehind, and fouled out.
By four different women. Beautiful, tasty, gorgeous, elegant,
loving, talented, enchanting looking young women. Four of
them, four women, and if you like, you can believe that it
was one per season, Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall; though,
it is not true, it still sounds even. But what is true is
each one was definitely a force or nature, earth, air, fire,
and water. I got keelhauled, walked the plank, booted, burned,
blown away or whatever you want to name denunciation. That’s
ok, that’s
my taste, and I only go for the best and never settle for
less, my self-esteem just wont let me.
I just don’t settle for less. My dear
If we were just friends or lovers or more of one thing and
less of the other, vise versa or barely new each other, and
we are no longer the way we were, that’s ok, cause
it always ends up the same way with my Karma anyway. And
what is that “ always ends up the same way Karma-thingy” you
might want to know? Hm? I will leave that up to you
my dear, but have no fear nor shed a tear, for me. Cause
I’m ok and I know you are ok to cause you have discarded
me. Still I am almost sure, Its not me its you.
Yeah I know,
when I say its you, I am disregarding some critical reasons
for our end here, like, I’m a rock head, stubborn,
got a big mouth, kinda Helter Skelter spooky sometimes, kinda
drama-queenly sometimes, kinda too nice sometimes, kinda
annoyingly laid back during situation that I should not be
sometimes. Got to many friends or not enough, got to much
propaganda on the Internet about me. Maybe my hygiene is
not up to your likeing, maybe my stomach is not up to your
standards of flatness, maybe I'm not the right color, race
or creed. Maybe I’m not the right
height, maybe I eat to much, maybe I did not spend enough
money on you or maybe I spent to much, maybe I’m not
bad enough for you, maybe I’m to spontaneous for you
or not enough, maybe I’m not enough of what you need
or want or not sure. But always know you are not the perfect
ether.
I am what I am,
at first I was ok but after awhile I wasn’t that ok, but I’m
still the same with or with out you; I am a little scared
about that. What you saw is what you got. What I saw is
what I got. I miss my grand mother. |
NOTE: THE
ABOVE TEXT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JULIE!!!! OR ANY OTHER
PERSON IN THE IMAGES BELOW!!!! GEEZZZEEE!!! |
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I start
to check out the maddog’s goods for
a bit, just a bit, hey I’m a dude, I’m
drunk, its d’uh maddog, it’s
ok, sorta,
but, I then notice and say out loud
“Hey
nice outfit and your ears are red…
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| December 30th and maybe the 27th
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About the last week or so |
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You know those moments. When you are in communication with
another person, and the conversation you are engaged in has
a panorama to lead to more adult conversations, debate with
rebuttal and/or congregation? You know? Later get together,
or whatever value, level of game, mission or engagement? Which
then leads to more of a possible bounding partnership-communication
of sorts? Do you know those moments? I get them a lot, so much
that I can already predict were we will go if we start with
the silly small talk. After a while of this repeated offense
of the my intellectual psyche, I just stay quite not really
ignoring you, but avoiding drab clichés of human verbal
commerce with no gain or lose or any kind of development. Does
this sound crazy? Maybe to some.
Motive will always disturb the outcome of most communiqué.
Experience will always be a tool for an anticipated verbal
outcome with no gain or consequence. But it is still always
up to you with how far you want to make any kind relationship
go.
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