UB IS ONLINE

Although UltimateBet has a notice that US players are no longer allowed to play on the site, I read an article on CardPlayer.com that said it was up and running. I checked it out and sure enough, it worked! So I can still play my beloved online poker albeit there are much fewer tables and the interface sucks. As I always say, it's better than nothing.

I did a lot of nothing today. Just a lot of television and a lot of entering old golf scorecards into Golfshot, an app for the iPhone/iPad. My bro said he paid $30 for it, but I got it free since I jailbroke the iPad. Do I feel bad about this? A little, but not enough to stop me from doing it.

My adventure in software piracy began at a pretty young age. The Commodore 64 was the first PC I ever got, and all I wanted it for was to play games. Atari and Intellivison were relics of the past at the time, and PC gaming was the next platform.

I had a friend who lived up the street who knew a lot about software. He knew how to copy games illegally and hooked me up with copies. Before I knew it, I learned how to copy my own games though it was much more difficult back then because you actually needed to know someone who had a copy of the game before you could actually copy it.

Jailbreaking is different. All the cracked software is available for you and all you have to do is search for it through Installous, another app/interface that allows you to do this. I saw Golfshot and it was a no brainer to download that baby. I was a little worried it might not work, but it worked just fine and now I've got over a dozen scores logged into it.

Oddly, my handicap is just below 12 at 11.8. I know as I enter more scores, it might change, but I'm shocked that it's that low. I guess I haven't lost much talent even though I've pretty much divorced myself from golf. Now and again, I always feel like we should get back together, but we still haven't figured out the money problems we have. I always tell everyone, she keeps taking my money and not giving anything back. But when I get those birdies or hit great drives and have a good day, I always wonder if I made a mistake.

Other than that, I watched some basketball games and more tv. I think I'm finally getting confident enough to start working out again as my back isn't giving me the kind of pain I was having a few weeks ago. Maybe all I needed to do was rest it and allow it to heal? I really hope it doesn't come back. Today I began wondering if it wasn't the bed that messed up my back but that maybe my back has always had issues all along.