Still here?
May 26, 2008
Hi guys, I guess the onus is on me to try and stir some life back into this thing.
It seems as though everyone has drifted apart a little over the last few weeks. Well I guess that isn’t entirely true as myself and Anne Marie still manage to chat once a day usually and going by all the mushy luvy stuff being typed into Skype announcement messages, I think it’d be a safe bet to say that Ash and Netty are still chatting to each other.
Dave has been around and I have chatted with him on several ocassions, usually at the weekends, he is off to China tomorrow for a couple of weeks so he’ll not be around too much for a while. have a good one Dave, I for one am very jealous.
Larry seems to have been dodging tornadoes since New Year and has also been swallowed up by online galaxy conquering in its various guises, Ogame and EveOnline is where my money is. Gopher is on and off rarely these days it seems.. That man is much too sober for my liking these days.
It happens, we have all seen it before, you find a new web site you chat away find a new group and after a while you move on. Hopefully we will all still keep the Jokers bookmarked and maybe for once we can buck the trend and stay in touch through the website and blogs. What I was considering was writing a monthly newsletter so at the least we’d all recieve a bit of news, a touchstone so to speak that would ensure that we never quite lost touch completely, yanno what I mean?
Besides I can’t lose touch completely with you guys.. I mean who are Anne Marie and myself gonna bum off if we ever get over the pond to do some serious Las Vegas-ing? And Ash and Netty gotta stay in touch with us so they know where to send the wedding invites, right? Gopher has to stay in touch, one because Fridays ain’t Fridays without our personal tipsy Scotsman and two because I still hold out a sliver of hope that he’ll actually pay me for a PC he had 2 years ago.. lol (fat chance)
Poker has really not been an issue for me last couple of months. I’m having far more fun playing backgammon and dominoes lol sad innit.. I don’t consider poker most nights and certainly do not fret about thinking I ‘have’ to play.
I did build myself a new website and had it 90% finished and then in a fit of pique one day (caused by yet another upgrade) I just took it down again. I had filled the site with news and videos and articles and all that kind of stuff. Then I sat back and thought about it and realised I was filling the site up, padding it with things just for the sake of it. I should just build the site around the things I enjoy doing and forget trying to please everyone all the time. So that is what I am going to be doing.
It’ll be a site basically split into a few areas, mostly graphics and art and maybe an opinion area for politics and current affairs. Weird mix maybe but that is what I enjoy online.
Actually I think I will play poker again real soon, I can feel the itch starting up. Maybe that is what was required, for me to stop fretting about it, forget about it for a while and sooner or later the itch would return of its own accord. I’ll keep you all updated on that one for sure. 
Anyhow before I go on too much, I hope you are all having fun whatever you are doing and hopefully we’ll hook up a game together one night in the not so distant future.
Till then .. toodle pip!
