To do:

Brainstorming about things I want to do in my unemployment:

• Design a new excel tracking sheet for poker that will be more useful for my new situation. Specifically I want to easily see weekly trends, and come up with a clear design to support my cash-out plan, which leads to my next point...
  
• ...Design a cash-out plan. If poker is my only source of income for a while, I need to perfect my plan for what money is bankroll and what isn't. I don't necessarily need to completely avoid mingling the funds as long as I keep track somehow of how to allocate wins and losses and expenses. Hopefully there will be wins.
  
• Create a resume and post it on Monster and other such places.
  
• Set a poker goal ($x,xxx by mm/dd/yyyy) that if I reach it, I buy a silly multiple monitor system like this. If anyone has set up one of these and can help me with it, let me know. I'd hate to spend a crapload on the monitors and graphics card and then find out my computer isn't compatible or something. I drool about nerdy stuff like this, but I have no idea how it works. I'm a wannabe tech geek. This is an investment though, since I could expand to playing up to 8 tables at a time.
  
• Domestic whatnot. I need to give my house a big brutal cleaning. I'm not good at continual upkeep, so I'll have to do a thorough cleansing occasionally. There are a dozen little things that need to be fixed around the house. I'm not handy at all, but I should be able to figure out most of them.
  
• Establish workout habits. I had been running every other day for several months, but stopped when it got cold. I was fine with stopping because I had basketball or soccer 3 nights a week. Basketball is almost over, and I'll have plenty of time, so I might as well do something daily.
  
• Establish a daily routine that gives reasonable time to: poker, job/career pursuit, exercise, reading, socialization, pillaging small coastal villages, and other leisure.
  
• Figure out my food plans. I had been spending $10/day commuting and about $8/day on lunches, so I should save a lot by cutting those out. I figure I'll eat most of my meals at home, so I'll need fresh groceries more often. I suspect I'll be eating a lot of sandwiches and hot pockets.
• Make sure I don't become a total hermit. Can't you just picture me disappearing into my weird isolated online poker world, emerging at sporadic intervals, sometimes months apart, wide-eyed and unshorn? I'd become some kind of urban myth, a cautionary tale about the dangers of never leaving your house. (This is going to be awesome.)
• Start to give school a serious look. What are my different academic options? Fall 2006 would be the earliest realistic target to start any full-time program.
• Start watching more NBA games. Abandon hope of ever getting back into baseball. Continue to care less and less about college basketball. Await NFL season with enthusiasm disproportionate to my actual enjoyment of the NFL. Await NFL fantasy drafts with enthusiasm disproportionate to my actual enjoyment of fantasy football. Continue to not care at all about college football. Revel in the success of my plan to destroy the NHL. Watch more UFC. Become an ultimate fighter. Live through my first fight, barely. Retire from ultimate fighting. Spend 3 months in hospital. While in hospital, watch lots of NBA games.
• Listen to the Junkies again. Ever since 99.1 WHFS abruptly switched to Spanish programming (which was seriously traumatic - how can the HFStival be dead??), I've been deprived of the show that revived my enthusiasm for talk radio. I haven't been able to listen to them during their 10am-1pm slot on 106.7 WJFK because I can't get reception at work. Problem solved. SILLY!
• Oh, and I need to hook up some kind of rakeback deal for online play. More on this when I figure it out.