Adam Winter

I was extremely disappointed by the entire last season, and especially the finale of Lost. Why did a great show that lead everyone on such an amazing journey have to end in such an unsatisfying way?

The first 5 seasons were full of so many mysteries, scientific and mythical elements, spirituality, and of course deep character development. The ending simply ignored 3/5th’s of the show and only focused on the spirituality and character elements.

We get no explanation of why the island is magical, why jacob and his brother were special, what the numbers mean, where the island is (on earth even?), etc. etc. I could go on with another 100 interesting things that were major storylines for multiple episodes that were never resolved.

The final resolution is simply once everyone dies, they all end up in a purgatory which leads to a supposed afterlife?

Half the characters killed and tortured others! Many, many times! We’re supposed to believe the only one not worthy of heaven is Linus? What the fuck!? There was killing, torture, cons, beatings, stealing, kidnapping, forced imprisonment, cruelty, etc. etc. Are you fucking kidding me they all go to heaven or some kind of blissful afterlife?

Dana and I got back from Phoenix Saturday after being out there since Tuesday. The weather was terrific – sunny every day and about 90-95 for a high. Mornings and evenings were fairly comfortable at around 70-80.

We drove around downtown Phoenix the first few days and realized the downtown area is very very ghetto. Lots of boarded up houses, graffiti, “massage parlors”, strip joints, bail bonds, loan stores, dumpy fast food places, etc. etc. When we ventured into Tempe and Scottsdale, we liked those areas a lot more.

We found a nice 2 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom condo in southern Tempe, about 4 miles south of ASU. It has a nice community with pools, gym, sand volleyball and tennis courts. The place might be a bit small but it is really nice on the inside, a fair price, and in a really nice area.

We were both super exhausted from all the driving and searching around by the end of the trip. We’re both glad to be back in Madison for now so we can rest easy until moving time.

Today I got 3rd in an $11 turbo MTT for $2487. Sunday night I got 4th in the nightly $23.45 hyper turbo for ~$1550.

Overall this month I’m up almost $6k. If I keep getting good scores I might be able to hit 10k this month. I’ll be in Phoenix for 5 days next week, and I’ve got some other random stuff to take care of, but I should have close to 2 weeks worth of grinding left for this month.

April was a good month, I won ~4825.

Overall I am up ~18200 on the year.

Yesterday I played for around 10 hours and won ~550. Today I made 3 final tables, but didn’t hit anything big, so only a small win of about 150. I keep getting to final tables and losing coinflips, which is super frustrating. I had the chip lead briefly in two 12/180s today and finished 5th and 6th. At both final tables I never got action on my big hands, and then went card dead and blinded down to around 10bbs shoved a medium pair, got called by AJ/AQ and lost.