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Got my good deed for 2016 in nice and early this year; floods in York caused havoc from Boxing day onwards (many will be feeling the effects for the rest of the year sadly). In late November I'd purchased a new George Foreman grill and a new kettle, but never got round to opening them and getting them up and running. Our current ones work ok, so on New Years day I put a message out on a FB group related to the floods saying they were free to a good home that was the victim of the weather, and we delivered them to a very grateful woman later that week; she had lost pretty much everything and was without insurance as well. That was just a drop in the ocean compared to some of the work loads of people are doing to return York to it's all singing all dancing best.
Got a load of stuff lined up for this year, kicking off with Vegas a week on Saturday, with a night in Gothenburg beforehand. Menorca and Thailand to follow later in the year (the plan for Thailand is to not lose my debit card on the first night!), gigs including the Manic Street Preachers (supported by Editors no less), a one day festival in Derby, Ocean Colour Scene in Leeds with Shed Seven and The Bluetones on the same bill and a few other bits and pieces. Determined to make 2016 a good one, partly due to the following....
Around a year ago, a mate of mine passed away. He'd gone to the hospital complaining of a bad headache and tunnel vision. The doctor who saw him gave him some migraine tablets and said to come back if it got worse. It got worse; he went to sleep later that day and never woke up. He was 27 years old. I think that qualifies as a bad beat. To people who like nothing more than to whinge and complain about such trivial matters, or moan about how their AK was beaten by AQ, think on yeah.
Thanks for the kind words above gents and lady Duck.
Off to Manchester, come on City!
Any link between the 2 is pure coincidence.
Gonna be covering some miles next week....
Tuesday, York to Gatwick
Wednesday, Gatwick to Kiev
Thursday, Kiev to Chernobyl and back
Friday, Kiev to Gatwick, then London to Nottingham
Saturday, Nottingham to York
Sunday, York to London and back again for the league cup final.
Tired just writing it all! As some will know, a rush of blood to the head a couple of weeks ago meant my finger clicked the 'book' button on Expedia and I'd committed to see the not so super City in Ukraine. It will be cold, we'll probably get beat, and I doubt the Kiev fans will give us a warm welcome, but I'm very much looking forward to it. Doing a day tour to Chernobyl as well whilst there, it's something that has interested me for a while so couldn't pass up the opportunity of going.
A happy quirk of the schedule above meant that I'd be passing through East Midlands Parkway on my way home on the Friday. So instead of completing the journey through to York, I'm heading over to Nottingham for the night to see some old and hopefully new faces at the UKPC. I'm flat broke, so if anyone wants to buy me a drink then a pint of lager will go down nicely
Last time I was at Wembley was when the mighty Wigan beat us in the FA Cup final, so it would be nice to banish those memories with a victory over Liverpool, though confidence is hardly flowing at the moment. Will probably be a tight game, they battered us at Eastlands this season but I'd be surprised if we make the same mistakes again. It might take a moment of genius to win it, and both teams have game changing players. At least Clattenburg isn't the ref!
I'd happily take 1-0 with Sterling netting a last minute winner.....
See you all a week on Friday if I don't die in Ukraine
Edit.....didn't win a bean in Vegas, standard.
Was tinned spaghetti on toast for brekkie today, no pints after golf and a beetroot salad when I got home.
Off down Morry's in a bit to get some things for tea. Any recommendations?
Oh and as it's poker chat, best dressed player yesterday was LmfaoAllin who assures me he was wearing a highly polished pair of brogues while DYMing it. New entry at number 62 is NAVYGAL who has had shiny buttons on her tunic 3 times in the last 5 days.
You're not fooling anyone with that 'no pints and beetroot salad' airball.
too many aters.
The transformation to DYMs continues. Comfortably made the leaderboard last fortnight, it's a bit touch and go for this fortnight but gonna put in a couple of hours today and that should see me home. Various things (gigs, football games etc) mean I couldn't match the previous volume, but did put in a full session yesterday. 25% ROI on the day, ez game
Sadly it's not an easy game. I make loads of mistakes, have loads of spots where I'm clueless as to what the best line is. Played plenty of sats over the years so I think I understand the basics of DYMs well enough, and maybe with experience I'll be able to avoid getting in confusing situations. One thing that is patently obvious is that volume is key, how Dev ended up just playing one a day in his ''challenge'' is beyond me.
Playing 8 tables inevitably leads to mistakes; I've folded to an away player more than once, and also done folds when a micro stack has shoved 210 on my 150bb for example. It must look silly to others at the table! Accidently did a mild slowroll on Jimi yesterday as my attention was on a different table. He consoled himself with a takeaway. A man after my own heart. Someone did fully slowroll me when I shoved an ace on the button, they had AA in the bb but took most of the timebar to call. I enquired why they did it, to which they admitted it was a slowroll but wouldn't say why. I am more than petty enough to slowroll them at the first opportunity and look forward to doing so.
May is looking good. Menorca kicks it off tomorrow, then I see the Manic Street Preachers (supported by Editors no less) in Leeds on the 20th, and then The Coral in York on the 21st, then fly to Verona on the 26th for ''sporting'' reasons.
Is that ^ enough self ego boosting drivel or should I add some more?
Got back to sunny York yesterday evening. 5.15 in the AM when I got in on Thursday night, we had to vacate the apartment by 10 that morning, I am far too old for this behaviour. Great week though, plenty of laughs, loads of sun, met some fun people, what more can you ask for?
Apparently I'm quite funny and a Thomson rep we met out there complained of a ''sore jaw'' the following day. First time for everything. The season in Menorca had literally just started on 1st May, the day we arrived, but various holiday reps we encountered had been there for a couple of weeks already in training, so we picked up some good tips and local knowledge. All the best beaches got circled on the map, and they didn't disappoint. Glorious weather too, timed it perfectly as it was raining when we drove to the airport yesterday after 4 days of solid sunshine. Nice to feel smug sometimes
Gave a lad a lift back to the airport. Called Josh, young guy at 21, is a policeman. We'd drank with him a few times throughout the week and was a good laugh despite his southern accent. Our flight to Manchester was 13.00, his to London was 13.10, so it worked out well and we agreed to meet at 10.30 yesterday in a local café. All fine sat having a coffee.....until he pulls out his flight confirmation and it says ''boarding closes 10.45, departure is 11.30''. Quite how he got it so spectacularly wrong I have no idea, and he had work later that day at 4pm to complicate things. I think he got lucky as his flight was delayed, last we saw of him was him running up the stairs to departures. I hope he made it.
Back to work and reality on Monday. Manchester tomorrow. Might play some poker in the meantime, rekindle my love affair with DYMs.