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peterbirksTo lunch yesterday with Mr Ward, newly returned from Vegas and still as thin as a rake, to collect what dollars he has remaining. He reckoned that he bokked himself when he went to a US bank and took out a leaflet on opening an account. From quazillion dollars up, the bankroll depleted to a fraction of a quazillion -- a fairly small fraction.
But he got the result when giving me the dollars. I took it at $1.85 to the pound, and over the net few days it sank back to about $1.82. Then it started moving up again. And, of course, yesterday morning the UK announced an unexpected increase in interest rates, smacking the rate up to $1.89.
Andy was pondering about the future direction of the dollar, and it really feels to me that it could be in some trouble, what with the mid-term elections likely to produce further political uncertainty until November 2008. Could this be the $2 to the pound by Christmas? Not impossible, not impossible.
We had lunch at a fish restaurant called Back To Basics, in Foley Street. I haven't eatne there before, but it always seems busy. Along with my normal record of taking vegetarians to steak houses and the like, Ward chose chicken for his main course (although he did have the gravad lax to start). I had some kind of mushroomy thing to start - bloody delicious, while the monkfish kebabs were also high-class.
Top of the tree, though, was the bread. I have no idea whether they bake this themselves or get it in specially. but it was brilliant. One of my major moans has always been how restaurants (24 at Tower 42 is a prime criminal) produce excellent meals and slap some 24p a pack Tesco's value bread on the side, or at least something which tastes how I imagine Tesco's value-white-bread would taste. It's a great pleasure to have a meal where the bread lives up to the quality of the meal, if only because it comes as a surprise (which, of course, it shouldn't).
Oh well, ironing and hoovering beckon. My, isn't life fun.
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A bit later.
A couple of days ago I was playing on one of the Monster Bad Beat tables on Party when the Bad Beat Jackpot was won at another $2-$4 table. A message flashed up and then disappeared within second, but I think that it said something about this fact qualified me for a seat in a $100K Monster Freeroll.
Needless to say, I cannot find how to enter this tournament, when it is, whether it's a matter of choice for me whan I play, or anything. In other words, fairly typical Party. Just when it looks like I might get some EV out of the deal, they take it away from me.
Just to show that you aren't a useless bunch of parasites reading this shit and not giving anything back in return, does ANYONE know how I go about playing in this freeroll?
I e-mailed Party but, needless to say, I have not received a reply. Any help would be much appreciated. There's nothing on the 2+2 forum about this, so I guess that the answer is as simple as shit, but I just can't see it.
PJ
But he got the result when giving me the dollars. I took it at $1.85 to the pound, and over the net few days it sank back to about $1.82. Then it started moving up again. And, of course, yesterday morning the UK announced an unexpected increase in interest rates, smacking the rate up to $1.89.
Andy was pondering about the future direction of the dollar, and it really feels to me that it could be in some trouble, what with the mid-term elections likely to produce further political uncertainty until November 2008. Could this be the $2 to the pound by Christmas? Not impossible, not impossible.
We had lunch at a fish restaurant called Back To Basics, in Foley Street. I haven't eatne there before, but it always seems busy. Along with my normal record of taking vegetarians to steak houses and the like, Ward chose chicken for his main course (although he did have the gravad lax to start). I had some kind of mushroomy thing to start - bloody delicious, while the monkfish kebabs were also high-class.
Top of the tree, though, was the bread. I have no idea whether they bake this themselves or get it in specially. but it was brilliant. One of my major moans has always been how restaurants (24 at Tower 42 is a prime criminal) produce excellent meals and slap some 24p a pack Tesco's value bread on the side, or at least something which tastes how I imagine Tesco's value-white-bread would taste. It's a great pleasure to have a meal where the bread lives up to the quality of the meal, if only because it comes as a surprise (which, of course, it shouldn't).
Oh well, ironing and hoovering beckon. My, isn't life fun.
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A bit later.
A couple of days ago I was playing on one of the Monster Bad Beat tables on Party when the Bad Beat Jackpot was won at another $2-$4 table. A message flashed up and then disappeared within second, but I think that it said something about this fact qualified me for a seat in a $100K Monster Freeroll.
Needless to say, I cannot find how to enter this tournament, when it is, whether it's a matter of choice for me whan I play, or anything. In other words, fairly typical Party. Just when it looks like I might get some EV out of the deal, they take it away from me.
Just to show that you aren't a useless bunch of parasites reading this shit and not giving anything back in return, does ANYONE know how I go about playing in this freeroll?
I e-mailed Party but, needless to say, I have not received a reply. Any help would be much appreciated. There's nothing on the 2+2 forum about this, so I guess that the answer is as simple as shit, but I just can't see it.
PJ
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Bread
Date: 2006-08-04 12:11 pm (UTC)I can remember that moment of venturing our on French gite holidays in the early 90's. The first morning after arrival, blundering into the boulangerie trying to remember whether it was un or une bagette and the delicious quality of the first few mouthfuls or a freshly-baked bagette. Now I can get that kind of standard in the local Co-op - just pampered I guess.
Corsica doesn't seem to care as much about bread as mainland France. Boulangerie product wasn't any better than SuperU and the patisseries weren't as essential as they should have been. British restaurant bread was by and large better a total reversal of the position 10-15 years ago.
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Date: 2006-08-04 01:55 pm (UTC)Nice to catch up with you, see you soon.
Andy.