The Best Laid Plans of Mice & Men
January 12, 2008
“The best-laid plans of mice and men go oft awry”, a commonly used quote from the poem “To a Mouse” written by Robert Burns. Frequently used because of its prophetic accuracy and I’m using it as the title for this the first blog entry of 2008, for exactly that reason.
I set some targets at the beginning of the year, things I was to strive for in my (online) poker life. Nothing unrealistic, quite attainable with some application and discipline. To be in profit by $5k at the end of the year. Indeed I had achieved almost 25% of my target by the end of January and then as often happens, real life reared its ugly head and like so many men and mice before me, my plans went awry…. Read more
That time of year again.. humbug..
December 15, 2007
Lazy Winter Sundays’ …
It’s what winter Sunday’s are for isn’t it? Lazing around, open newspapers on the lounge coffee table, this morning’s breakfast dishes still piled up in the kitchen. Slopping about in sweats not really dressed, hair un-brushed and still magnificently vertical.
Warm cooking smells coming from the kitchen, some old black & white movie running unwatched on the TV. A pile of clothes washing sitting in the basket by the washing machine, waiting for someone (me) to make the supreme sacrifice of donating 5 minutes of their Sunday afternoon, spent in pushing said clothes into the machine closing the door and hitting the run switch.. hmm.. nope still can’t gather the energy for that one yet.
My arse is somehow magically glued to my computer chair and unless there is a sudden potentially fatal ‘cup-of-tea’ shortage it is going to remain glued until at least.. oh I dunno.. at the earliest dinner time I reckon.
.. Winter Sunday’s rock. :)…. Read more
If it don’t taste bitter to lose, it sure won’t taste that Sweet when winning!
November 27, 2007
Ok I am going to start off talking about poker just to be sure that I include it in this week’s blog entry. That said I think I am guilty of going on a bit, not sure if I knew where I was going with the post when I started hitting the keys.
I read Gophers blog recently, it is an old topic touched on before by all of us at one time or another. A good idea, there is still a lot of mileage in some of those older topics, in this case the apathy or lack-lustre attitude that can creep into your game. Gopher suggests getting back to basics and re-evaluating your game from the ground up.
Sound advice.
But, not for me, not this time. I know what my problem is with poker, it is not the suck-outs, the cold cards, the series of bad beats. It isn’t any of those things, it is simply boredom. Playing $5 SNG’s just bores the pants offa me! Unless I am cruising the games with fellow Skyper’s, then it doesn’t matter what the buy in stakes are, I am just playing and having fun with my online buds. Read more
Ok Let’s Crank it up Again!
November 16, 2007
Oh boy.. It has been an age since I last strolled into these not-so hallowed halls. My last entry was on… August the 8th holy schmoley! That is three whole months to catch up on!
Shoot I can’t sit here and type up three months of missed blogging I’d be here for the next three months doing so, then I’d be three months behind again and wouldn’t have got anywhere.. So I’ll have to satisfy myself with cherry picking the events I failed to document here and maybe give a brief synopsis of things.
As some you will have noticed the blog title has changed. This is because the blog has always been a mix of poker stories and everyday stories, and now with me playing less poker I suspect the rest of “Life, The Universe and Everything” outside of poker, will become a more dominant theme.
Anyhow let’s start the ‘catch up’, so in no particular order…. Read more
Normal Service will be resumed Shortly.
August 8, 2007
Hey folks.. Apologies for the tumble-weed strewn halls of my blog..
It has been a torrid couple of months, what with my lifestyle being turned upside down by my recent diagnosis of diabetes, the non arrival of summer, the building of the new website and several other things getting in the way. I simply have not had much time or inclination left in me at the end of the day to sit here and bash away at the keyboard.
Poker has been on the back burner for the last 10 weeks or so, I might have played 5-6 games in this period.
Much of my online time has been taken up with building my new website. Actually much of the last 8 weeks has been wasted because of the way my hosting providers configured their servers, after weeks of reconfiguring code and stuff I finally came to the conclusion it would be a lot easier to re-host my site with a provider that was more flexible…. Read more
Blagz has re-entered the building.. sorta.. nearly
June 27, 2007
Again I find myself apologizing for the dearth of any news or new content on the blog.
I do have a pretty good excuse this time for not being as active as I would like to be. Well a couple of good excuses;
* 1 - It is still summer and
* 2 - I managed to get slightly ill.
Not immediately life threateningly ill, but bad enough to stop me in my tracks and to get me in the local hospital pretty sharp-ish.
