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Yeah of course I remember The Stone Temple Pilots. Think I have their CDs somewhere in one of my many CD boxes yet to be unpacked, must dig them out tomorrow. I'm currently rediscovering some CDs I haven't listened to for ages. At the moment I'm on The Cooper Temple Clause, Sunhouse (short lived Folk Rock band who are best known for the soundtrack to Shane Meadow's first full feature, 24/7, a film well worth checking out IMO) and the best of Frankie Goes to Hollywood. I kid you not, look beyond Relax and Two Tribes and there are some tunes there.
I can sum it up with the scene from Chariots of Fire where Ben Cross sits in the dressing room, sullen, detailing what's gone wrong in every event so far just before his blue ribbon event. That's pretty much where I am. I haven't been able to play the last two nights (still mixed feelings on skipping the High Roller). I'm already in for tonight and the main tomorrow. Time to find the gears.
So what do people do on a Sunday morning? Seriously, I feel massively out of place right now.
LOVE that line.,.....
"....hope is a beautiful thing....."
We are so blessed in life, if we did but know it.
Bruce Lee's in it
I love the dancing ducks myself.
Yup, I'm definitely getting old.
Why? Well tonight I will be mostly playing poker and watching the U.S. election. I've had my mind warped by the News Media. They have so been constantly banging on that this is 'too close to call' that I'm starting to believe it. While I think the popular vote will be close nationwide, I think those key states are staying with Barry O. Either way, the American's put on one heck of a show and it should be good popcorn viewing.
Morning Tommy.
Any idea who won last night's Sky Poker Main Event?
PS - Congrats!
It's funny how MTTs run, I had a lovely bink just before UKOPS and this two days after. In between when I was really hoping to kick on, not a sausage. You can't pick when you run good in MTTS, all you can do is just play as well as you can and see when it comes together.
Last night was one of those beautiful nights when everything came together. Most decent MTT players will occasionally have that tourney where everything is just so simple, it's like you can see everyone's cards, you're in complete control and mentally totally relaxed. It's wonderful when you hit that perfect mood and I just enjoy it as they don't come around often.
Thanks to all you lovely people who railed me again as well, always a lovely crowd
Hit a purple patch in the MTTs lately. The most ridiculous being Sunday night when I came back from being down to 8.5 chippies at the start of level 2 in the 9pm £110 BHer to go on to finish second. The greed for the bounty fuelled the spin up, and of course running like Mr Bolt all of a sudden.
Strange tonight. The result is I FTed both the main and the £110 BHer, making a little over a grand in the process. The other way of looking at it is I held the chip lead on both FTs at one time and finished 4th in both. I think I'm maturing as a player and a person though. In the old days I would be cursing not taking at least one of them down. Right now while there is a pinch of annoyance, I'm much colder at looking at the results. First up, in the 9pm I got silly lucky in a few spots in the middle part of the tournament. Run good kicked in. Also I butchered my exit hand. I noticed a clear betting tell as obvious as a tanning salon deciding to open in Newcastle but I still plundered my stack in the middle, ignoring what I had seen. Over in the main, just a cooler. 2nd in chips I 4bet with Kings and get a call from the chip leader. A 7 high flop leads me to shove and I get shown AKs. One over and the NFD, we're basically flipping and I lost the flip.
Haven't done a full review yet but right now I'm thinking in the main, played pretty good. In the 9pm, engaged the box of luck. They don't put an asterisk on the money though, value is always the same. I'm just going to enjoy the hot run as I always do, they never last but then again they never leave for good when they go.
That was back in the early summer and the thing about that time of the year is you don't get too much constant rain usuallyl. The thing about Autumn and Winter is you get plenty. The mini-dish is fixed to the outside wall of my office (The Grindatorium). Imagine my surprise when I see water running down inside the painted lining paper and the corner of the wall, then bulging pregnant near the floor spreading its way across. After spending plenty of time checking the roof, ceiling etc my attention finally turned to the mini-dish. My friend with a sweet tooth had total success with three of the holes to bolt the dish on with. The fourth, well not so much. The hole is caverness to the point that the bolt isn't touching the sides and provides less purpose than an Off Licence in Qatar. To make matters worse with no rawl-plug in there for some reason the hole has become a funnel. Water's been collecting and working its way through the brickwork.
Big sigh, the place only got decorated a month ago and now some touch ups need to be done. Sky are sending their 'field inspector.' round soon. Now I think that these things happen and I'm not that annoyed about it. As long as we get some sort of apology and fair compensation for fixing it I'll be cool. Then there is the expectation of the GF. Her expectation is somewhere in the region of free Sky TV for life and an airplane trailing a 'We're So Sorry' banner in the air over the house for about a week. She's constantly been prepping me with 'haggling training' for a couple of days. Well I say prepping, in reality she's been constantly changing the conversation with no warning to reminding me to 'be firm,' 'be really firm' and 'be really really firm.' I think nothing of spewing on the poker table but turning the screws to get all I can out of this sort of spot is alien to me. I can see me folding like a cheap suit now, my attempt at haggling will probably end up with subscribing to another package and costing me more money. I am seriously thinking of ordering apology flowers for the GF right now just to save some time. Sigh.
Similar situation happened to my friend he phoned CS and was overjoyed that he'd receive a visit within 48 hours.
He took the day off work, waited in all day but no-one came.
Slightly annoyed he phoned CS who apologised and gave him another date.
The date was confirmed on his answer phone the following day.
He took another day off work, waited in and no-one came again. He phoned CS who told him It was his mistake. even after replaying the ansaphone message, he was still made to feel it was all his fault.
Two weeks later the engineer arrived, sorted the problem in minutes. Then said he would have come earlier but he'd been told to concentrate on new installations.
My mate was not a happy bunny! but that was ten months ago and his set up is now perfect!
Sadly, he didn't receive any compensation nor apology from CS
Now Grant seems to be in pretty good nick, clean, healthy coat of fur, happy and wide eyed. The problem is he doesn't have a collar. Now I assumed he lived somewhere on the street but he's begun to turn up at funny times of day. I've seen him at one in the morning before and I've only just now seen him again. I heard something a silly enough I opened my office door, Grant shot inside before I could do a thing about it. Not great, he seemed to explore the office then attempted to jump on my lap. Now I'm not that used to cats so I was pretty rigid, until the point his claws reached out and then I made quite a loud yelp. But he is really friendly, keeps rubbing against my legs, keeps raising his paws to get stroked on the head.
Now my problem. I don't know if he's a stray or has owners who let him in and out all day and night long without bothering with a collar. Now it's getting cold, winter's coming. Tonight he eventually went to the door and walked out of his own accord, but should I be taking him in at night. I honestly don't know, never had a cat. What do you think?
She has now given birth to 4 kittens and they are living in a shed (not ours) at the back of our house.
As a cat lover (got 3 myself) i have been putting a little food out for the kittens.
They have now all taken up residence in our back garden!
Its looks like the mother is now pregnant again so i've contacted the Cats Protection League who are coming today to set some traps for them all.
I hope Grant has been "done" as he will be spraying all over the place!
May be worth taking him to vets to check if he has been chipped.
Yesterday was the first day he turned up twice in a day. The problem is I think he's a ninja cat, I never hear him coming and don't notice until is right upon me. The lad has assassin skills.
Cheers again, probably going to keep putting the health food stuff out for him. He looks up at me after couple of bites with that 'Come on, where's the good stuff?' but I am yet to produce the John West.
Oh and Geldy, keep telling yourself it's a skill game
BUMP
Tommy,
So you win another sky main event and then forget the fans and stop posting in the diary!
Poor, poor show!
Matt
For anyone reading right now, Matt and myself are both on the Thursday Roller FT if you fancy a rail. Be quick, I doubt we'll both be there for long.
gg me....6th!