Not all Girls are Created Equal

After starting back up again with poker in June, I can feel myself getting sucked in again.  I really enjoy playing and have a high level of sustainable focus, so end up playing/thinking about/studying the game a lot.  Even when I'm not doing anything poker related, my mind will often drift to thoughts of poker. The downfall of this is that I tend put my other interests and projects on the back burner.  As a web developer I want to keep expanding my skill set and as an artist I would like to keep creating.  I tend to cycle through feeling really good about my time spent at poker with feeling bad about neglecting my other pursuits.  This trend is then compounded if I am having a bad run.  Been there done that, don't want to do it again.

As we enter July, I realize that I will need to make some kind of effort to keep things balanced so I don't fall into that pattern if I start a losing streak.  Last month I logged about 67 hours (not much compared to the reg ginders) but it's a good chunk of my time after FT landscaping M-W and doing web dev. work the rest of the week.  

On a side note, how cute is this?  I don't necessarily agree to keeping wild animals as pets, but this little primate is something else.  (credit to my bf for sending me the link)