Grinding Back

Had a great day yesterday, made back a little under 900 of this month's 1600-1700 in losses in like 20 games.

Made another 150ish today, so I'm within a good day or two of getting back in the black.

I can't wait to get back to the 200-220s, I'm thinking about playing some 200 regular speeds again, 2-3 tabling them. This latest downswing has really made me realize the amount of variance in the turbos, even for the top players (not saying me, but looking at the top ppl's stats/ROIs).

It's not that I'm afraid of the variance, it's that I don't play enough games to completely disregard it. If I could play 25-30 games a day, 6 days a week, I think I'd handle the variance fine. I can't or don't do that, at least not at this point.

Another thing that favors going a lower variance route is my business. I'll be starting up in about a month and a half, so I'll be playing a lot less in April, but probably will be playing just slightly less than now once things fall into a groove.

I just really don't want to have like 5 losing days in a row, that shit is really annoying, especially when you feel like you're playing well. The only solutions I can see is to play more games or play lower variance games. The lower variance games are probably better for my hourly/money anyways right now, so there's no reason not to do those. I might try to do like 10-15 regular speed 200s a day, then 5 220s as well. I'm not really sure yet, I need to make some of this loss back from this month first.

It's been really cold out, I've been in a fairly crabby mood the last few days. I'd really like to walk a mile or two a day, especially since I quit smoking, it can really suck just sitting around all day in a fairly small place.

My girlfriend got her new car, her dad finally gave her the money he was supposed to in early January. It's an 04 Concorde, we got it from my uncle who owns an autobody shop. Much better than my Cavalier she's been driving for the last year and a half. When I say driving, I mean tearing apart. That thing is lucky if it can last another 5k miles.

Today we realized the full extent of our landlord's stupidity. It's tough to call him a landlord, he lives about 45 minutes away, owns a ton of real estate properties, and manages none of them. He owns a very successful sports equipment/clothing store that supplies a lot of Chicagoland with that stuff. I've never met him, he was supposed to come out here like a dozen times since June, but no dice. He never calls people back, it's really hard to get him on the phone.

Anyways, yesterday we got a message from the realtor lady that found the place for us. She said that our landlord wanted to evict us, but we could pay our rent or else or something along those lines. A real bitchy message. Well we paid our January rent, our February was due the 6th I guess, but we were supposed to be called about concerns we had with the place, mainly that we cannot use about 60% of what we are alloted bc a drug addict steals stuff from the storage. That and we are missing like 6 storm windows, are owed for a water bill from before we lived here and a few other little things. The realtor lady was supposed to call us back about that stuff because the landlord never did.

Long story short, we talk to the landlord today on the phone, he never got the January check. After digging around in his store, he found it. That is what this problem was about. We paid the rent January 6th, and he never fucking called us when he didn't receive it. We told him we were dropping it off, but nothing for a whole month about it, just a bitchy call from someone else.

So he SAYS he is going to call us in the next few days to address our concerns. This is yet to be seen. In the meantime, I am getting free lessons on how not to manage a rental property.

Speaking of which, still haven't found our first investment. I've probably seen about a thousand properties online, of which maybe half were liveable areas, and about 2% of those have met the minimum requirements to make some decent money. It's pretty ridiculous around here, what newbies/ignorant people will pay for rental properties. People are actually willing to operate at a loss in order to have a "cheap long term investment." Like a high risk, low reward retirement account, lol.

Anyways, that's about all from the Diary.