If life is a musical, my life is a cartoon

In the glory days, my head was filled with Metallica, Miles Davis and other spots of metal, with maybe a little hip-hop and pop music.
Now it's Little Einsteins.
"You can do it XX (I forget), you can win the race because you are an amazing music car!" (Sung to the tune of that classical music song they played over "Masterpiece Theater.")
Or it's Winnie the Pooh.
"My friends Tigger and Pooh, we're always here for each oooootherrrrr."
Or it's "Handy Mandy."
"Blah blah blah blah...Se Vamonous!"
Kill me now.
OK, so, yes, our toddler probably watches a little too much TV. But the goal of our existence right now is to try to make it past the twins' first year without killing ourselves, each other or Jayden. Jayden is the easiest part. I'm not sure if we'll make it through. We probably will. You don't have to recommend anyone for us. Or call the police.
So, unfortunately, TV keeps Jayden at bay for a bit while the girls get fed, changed and given some sort of sleepy drug so they zone out for ah hour. I'm just kidding on that last part. Or am I?
And so we pay for our bad parenting by having the song dance through our heads all day. They so inanely catchy that they stick there, like flypaper to our brain, and nothing gets rid of it. Not Rihanna's "Umbrella," something screamy from "Headbangers Ball" or jazz music. Nothing. Because I still keep up with music, but now it's just downloaded into my iTunes folder, where I can listen to it during my runs or workouts and that's about it. So that aforementioned "Umbrella" song is still new to me even though radio stations have played it about 1,893,238,987,983 times. Or so I've heard.
This does, at least, motivate us to turn the damn stuff off and read a book to him. While holding a twin. Which usually works. Jayden's even wanted to "read" to the twins himself, which is really damn cute.
Maybe I can develop a show where the music is hair metal from the 80s. They can put cute lyrics to "Rock You Like A Hurricane" if "Little Einsteins" can put lyrics to classic classical music.
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Well, I moved up on Ultimate Bet to .25/.50 NL after building my bankroll there playing $.10/.25 (I started at $200) and got it up to $1200. Well, I lost a bunch, so I'll have to move back down for a bit again. Actually, I only lost $100, but that was in three days, and that makes me nervous. Of course my losses were to a bunch of suckouts (guy getting his two pair on the river, AA cracked by JJ, that sort of thing). I don't know why I always manage to get in a downswing just as I move up in levels. It's really discouraging. I don't think I'm playing scared.
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I realize Bodog is a sponsor of this site, but Tuesday's blogger tournament honestly seems like a good deal and one worth pimping for reasons other than sponsorship. If you are one of five bubble spots, you get your money refunded ($11), and if you finish in the top five, you get $109 in tournament dollars, which Bodog says is an entry to its big Sunday tournament but I think can be used for anything. Top three finishers get bonuses in cash.
There haven't been a ton of bloggers show up to this so the overlay could be pretty sweet. It starts at 6:35 p.m. tonight, which sucks for me since all three kids are still up, but I'm going to try to make it tonight. I can't resist that deal. See you there.

When it's correct to play below your bankroll or ability

Last night totally justified my many efforts to get money back into Bodog, going so far as to beg friendly bloggers to do a transfer with me, only to find out that Bodog doesn't allow transfers.
I finally got some cash on there with a credit card, my first option that was intially rejected and then accepted.
I sat down at Bodog to kill a little time last night while waiting for Kate to get home from her workout. I knew we were going to feed the twins soon and I didn't want to start playing a SnG or a level on "Black" and have to quit in 20 minutes. So cash games on Bodog won out.
I won $40 in 30 minutes.
And I did it playing $10 NL.
(On a side note, there are some video games that just don't take the parents of twins (or any parent) into account. On "Black," an older game that I just started playing because, um, I've been a little busy this summer, there's no way to save your progress through a level without making it throught the whole level. If you quit you lose all your checkpoints. That means unless you have two or three hours to spare playing nonstop video games - something that just doesn't happen anymore wtih twin infants in the house - you inevitably lose all your progress you've made in that level. That's just ghey! I mean that second time goes a lot faster because you know the level, but still...don't they realize that parents play their games?)
I play that $10 NL level more than any other on Bodog. I started when I was clearing a bonus for Poker Source Online. You earned points only if you put money in the pot, so I played that level and played practically every hand.
But I kept it up after the bonus was over because the players are so horrible there.
I mean they are really, really bad. They will shove their whole stack in with a pair. And it doesn't have to be top pair.
I call far more big bets there with hands as basic as top pair than any other level or site. I took one guy's stack with my QQ when he called me with a flush draw and didn't hit. I took another stack when a guy shoved with lower two pair after I got the nut straight on the turn. Another guy shoved all in pre-flop when I had KK and he had...Q,K. A fourth guy called off $5, half his stack, with nothing but King high. He didn't even have a draw.
Granted, I had good cards, but no way, and I mean no way, do I get paid like that on all my hands even at $25 NL on Ultimate Bet, a pretty reliable fishing hole. And shoving a harmless flop with QQ at higher levels will just get you stacked. Players are way too grindy these days, even at the lower levels.
Normally $10 NL is far too low a level for me to play. When I started playing real money two years ago, I didn't start there. But the games are just so darn juicy on Bodog. When I finally pulled money off the site right before Neteller, I was $800 ahead playing strictly $10 NL and a few tournaments in just a few months. That may not be big money to you all, but that money will pay for a trip to Vegas this October when my wife and I celebrate five years together.
If you're wondering, I haven't noticed the $10 NL games being nearly as good on other sites. I don't know why. Maybe the players on Bodog are the worst. I have played $25 NL there too and I'm beginning to wonder if the site truly does have the worst players. It's almost like those players were all transported back in time to 2004 and can't escape the void.
I really don't think, as some of you might, that I'd be making twice as much by playing a higher level. I just can't see that kind of action at higher levels. So my question to you all is when is it OK to play lower than your bankroll and for how long?