A Vacation

It's been a while between blogs, so I thought I would post a little update.

I am on a vacation right now at Lake Tahoe. Now I don't ski, but I have literally grown up here. I have been here for almost every summer of my life and I've just now become winter rat. I am heading out soon to goto Paramount's Great America with my Mom and my sister.

I've played a little poker whenever I can get internet access (the cabin I am at doesn't have any) and it has been going well enough to pay for this vacation.

I think I am going to use this blog to expand a bit on my history to my faithful reader(s?). This is where my handle XA Kid came from.

I am a member (alumni now) of the national Jewish fraternity, Alpha Episilon Pi. I will state here that I am a big fan of the fraternity concept when done right (not Animal House style) and my chapter was great. I made great friends, learned a lot about myself, and had sex with a goat. Ok, that last part not true, but I had a great time. Anyways, one of my bros, Will, played America's Army, a free online First Person Shooter sponsered by the Army. I decided to play with him. I saw that his handle was Cal_kid (I was a student at the University of California - Berkeley) so I decided to pick a similar name, XA Kid. XA stands for Chi Alpha (CA), which is the name of our specific chapter of AEPi. I started using it on poker sites and it just stuck.

So there ya go, the reason for my nickname. I should be back on Friday night, so look for some more poker action over the weekend.