<p>Garland, when I was younger, an acquaintance dropped out of college one unit short of graduating. </p>
<p>Our kids have to find what works for them.</p>
<p>Just enjoy the journey.</p>
<p>Good luck to your son.</p>
<p>When I watch poker on tv, and they mention the poker players’ biographies, it will be easier to figure out which poker player is your son. :)</p>
<p>Whatever garland is drinking, I am buying.</p>
<p>special to m&sdad: Perry has been known to hang around for oh, say, 10 years. Take it from someone who knows. Get to know the guy; he’s quirky but he keeps things interesting. Along with the red convertible, you might want to invest in: aspirin and sweatshirts and sweaters that are easy on/off (for the m&sspouse), a remote control to change the heat/ac settings moment by moment, Patience and Understanding, Sense of Humor… </p>
<p>Well, you get the idea.</p>
<p>garland,
Good luck to your S with his decision. I hope that things will work out for the best for him. It is so hard to watch this as a parent of a young adult child.</p>
<p>Smiling here. I was just at a dinner where the woman on my left said it was freezing in there, the woman on my right was so hot she was taking her jacket off (she was sleeveless underneath), and I thought it was just about right. Perry was very much in evidence.</p>
<p>Thanks, all. Yes, the understanding comes in chunks. have to squelch the urge to get just a teensy, um, over-reactive at times. H is especially working at that. </p>
<p>Dstark–he says, his goal is to make a living. It will be nice to make the poker show level, but he claims not to be aiming at that. He says most who make it quickly have a large stake to start with, and he’s starting from close to scratch, so…a living would be fine (and finishing that degree along the way would be nice!)</p>
<p>Thanks Jmmom.</p>
<p>Got the sense of humor down pat. Still working on the patience and understanding, being a Black Irish hothead and all…</p>
<p>So far, body temp is less the issue than minute by minute emotional swings.</p>
<p>I have taken to hiding in the basement on the treadmill. I can run a 10K already :)</p>
<p>“Yes, the understanding comes in chunks. have to squelch the urge to get just a teensy, um, over-reactive at times. H is especially working at that.”</p>
<p>Yeah…I’ve been known to get a little over-reactive at times. :eek:. </p>
<p>I understand your husband’s feelings.</p>
<p>Garland, an Irish bar it is. Quitting some fancy college to go play poker is something the Irish would understand. Understand and applaud…</p>
<p>St. Patrick’s Day is coming up. I’ll be working on the green beer.</p>
<p>It’s funny, I’m the only non-Irish in the family. H is totally, kids are half but claim it as their primary background (and with their names and faces, it only makes sense). but I have somewhere an “Irish by marriage” t-shirt, and funnily enough, people look at me and think I am. Plus, I adore Irish music, Irish Lit, and Irish ale. And, I make a mean corned beef and cabbage, too!</p>
<p>Alu-
A toast to your bro in law-- with best wishes and healing thoughts. </p>
<p>Garland,
So sorry DS is taking the circuitous route through school. But, as you said, his GPA is intact, so when life redirects itself, he can return. For now, let him take care of himself and his needs. </p>
<p>Sybbie,
I forgot to ask you… will you adopt me? :D</p>
<p>Hey, Gar – he can always join Beard Team USA and go up to Anchorage for the next World Beard and Moustache Championship (May 2009). Sluggson will be competing in the handlebar moustache category, and the guy with the long, flowing red beard (the current world beard champion and a UCSC grad)…he’s the bass player in sluggson’s band. 
I’m going to turn the garage into a shrine to facial hair.</p>
<p>[Beard</a> Team USA](<a href=“http://beardteamusa.org/index.html]Beard”>http://beardteamusa.org/index.html)</p>
<p>I <3 Beard Team USA! Can I be a groupie, please?? </p>
<p>And whoa, he’s a BASS PLAYER in sluggson’s band?!! Can TFSFH take some lessons from him this summer?? (TFSFH now plays bass in addition to drums, btw.)</p>
<p>/me is in heaven… (If you don’t know by now, I love hair. Facial, head, anything, give me HAIR, and lots of it.)</p>
<p>His beard’s probably not world class, but he’s got great long, curly hair–is there a ponytail division?</p>
<p>Well, if he’s going into Professional Poker, garland… maybe you can divert your worry time to fantasy time. About how you’ll spend your cut of his earnings once you sign on as his manager. Some male being took over the Remote Control on our TV last week; accordingly, I do believe I saw some gal in the Super Bowl of Poker (or whatever it was called) win $2,000,000. </p>
<p>Yes, that was six zeros.</p>
<p>garland, I sent you a PM</p>
<p>Nick Schulman was 21 YO when he won $2mil playing poker. Article today in the NYPost.</p>
<p>And think how Mary Gates felt when Billy decided to throw it all away to go live in the desert! </p>
<p>Is it too early to bring in the Irish dancers for a treble jig and a really loud jig line?</p>
<p>It’s never too early or too late in the Alley.</p>
<p>We will have to clear the bar off though if they are to dance on the bar.</p>
<p>Or maybe under the disco ball?</p>
<p>Garland, Another poster’s S was a professional poker player, but I don’t remember who.</p>
<p>as far as fame and fortune, S made a point of telling me not to expect to see him on TV–you generally need a big starting stake for that to be a possibility, which he does not have. He is fairly confident that he can make a living (as he says, “pay the rent”) but is not in it with the expectation that he will be on ESPN next year. (“If it happens, it happens, but don’t expect it.”) </p>
<p>Glad to know I raised a boy with a good head on his shoulders! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I just realized over on the wedding thread that it is hubby’s and my 21st anniversary today! He is out of town. We very often forget our anniversary because it’s at such an odd time of year.</p>
<p>I was hoping you would all raise a glass of champagne for us–might as well be something really expensive–and I’ll do the same for you.</p>