gl with ur new life.

gl Ron, sorry to hear it didn't work out for you.

Why do you feel you have to try to convince other people they should be miserable? Is it because you're miserable and you don't want to feel alone?

Sorry, but I don't have any plans to join you. You won't ever get the satisfaction of causing or predicting my suffering. You'll have to troll elsewhere.

I'm just trying to help you. You seem confused and lost going from one distraction to another.

Btw, did you travel anywhere other than Austin and Florida in the van? I thought the whole point of living in a van was to see some of the country?

OP probably just gone busto and/or got sick of bumming $$$ off his parents or w/e. I mean who "starts to hate poker" unless they are constantly getting their ass handed to them while playing way above their BR.

tru dat! if you are playing $50 max for 2 years, you are prob. not cut out for poker in the 1st place. So I guess OP finally wizened up. OP GL in your new endeavor. A tasty meal is one of the best pleasures in life, and if you do become an excellent cook/chef you'll make many people happy!

GL with whatever you end up doing, OP. Your blog was well written and entertaining.

That's part of it. I've been generally disenchanted and unmotivated to play and improve for a little over a year now. I probably should've quit sooner, but I just didn't know what else I wanted to do. I credit the living-in-a-van impulse to helping me realize how much I like cooking, and how much I miss it when I can't. I had always wanted to learn how to be a badass cook but I was complacent with the easy lazy poker life.

I was playing mostly 100nl and a little 200nl in 2007 and up until about April of last year. Then I was like **** this I don't care I don't want to invest any time or effort into studying or outplaying the regulars. So I moved down to 50 where the regulars suck and I don't have to think or try that hard. My winrate at 50 is the same as it was at 100, it's always around 4-4.5 ptbb/100.

Interesting development!!!

I emailed my brother to say I'm looking for a cooking job. He lives in Italy and I thought maybe he would know some chefs since his father in law is a baker, and because I most want to learn traditional Italian food. He replied:

"Don't know any chefs, but I do know a damned good baker who's going to retire in a few years. You could probably work for him for a while, he'd teach you everything he knows and if you decide you like doing it, the bakery would be yours after he retires."

Anyone interested in reading a blog called Ron Burgundy: The Italian Baker?

Make it The Italian Baker Who Lives In His Italian Car, then yeah.

i didnt get to read the blog, but read the cliffnotes

why didnt you park at wallmart?

they have one everywhere and they are open 24 hours, which means no cops to harass you

other than that, i am not surprised that you didnt enjoy the experience

i make tons of trips to nyc (a 5 hour ride) and spending day after day in a car definitely takes it toll on you

I like to learn the hard way.

I very much enjoyed the experience, and I'm still living in the van now. It's poker I don't enjoy anymore.

Uh... have you seen the cars in Europe? Gas is ridic expensive there. middle class people drive Smart cars and little tiny pieces of ****. I don't want to live in one of those.

Sounds like a great plan to me, learning Italian cooking from an Italian in Italy would be really good.

But it's not cooking, it's baking. That's the only problem. Completely different skills and occupations.

Baking. The only exact form of cooking?

just take the job as a baker or whatever you can get walter mitty.

I'm pretty sure I would get lonely in a while.

seems cool to me

http://www.google.com/search?q=allin...FR306&filter=0

Just click the 'Cached' links below the 4 monthly archives: November 2008, December 2008, January 2009, February 2009.

Just read the whole thing and enjoyed it. Thanks Ron, nice writing style.

Thanks for that dotbum, nice blog, wish it was still running.

What are you doing now Ron? Did the Baking work out?

Bring back the blog IMO

i'm sure this thread is dead by this point, but i've met someone who did this with good advice. Its easy to sleep in your car, you just have to park in a residential neighborhood with cars on the street, and immediately get to it. No lights no nothing, just sleep immedeately when you get there. You get hassled when you do other things in the car before sleeping... thats when the shake downs by the cops happen.

"truck stop stops are the bath houses of the 90's for many, many gay men"

There's Something About Mary, quote goes something like that, iirc, lol

Cheap camper best bet. Can stay anywhere then. $3 showers at campgrounds and truck stops. Most pop up campers can be towed by a car.
You can even do the wi-fi and save money at most libraries or outside coffee shops if you want

I can't believe people are still bumping this. If anyone is wondering what happened to me, I moved back in with my parents in Chicago. I'll be here for at least the rest of this year while I go to a pastry school. In the meantime, my brother said he'd try to get me a work visa in Italy.