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I had a disaster of almost biblical proportions on the way home yesterday. My Rio Karma stopped working. There I was, listening happily to Jeff Buckley and, suddenly, nothing. On getting it back home the screen was blank and, listening closely to its inner workings, it sounded as if the hard drive was whirring but, to use an old metaphor, there was nobody home.
Needless to say, I could find every manual for every piece of equipment in the house with the exception of the Rio. So I had resigned myself to going out and having to succumb to the Apple Ipod fan base, and spending a weekend transferring music onto said Ipod. But I had one last ace up my sleeve.
I let the battery run down. That way the hard drive would have to stop whirring like a dervish.
And, lo and behold, it worked. But, for the long term, it looks a bit worrying. Perhaps I should buy my replacement now, so that I have an automatic backup.
That would at least allow me to buy something through Amazon that was not Apple-tinted.
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With the bankroll on Party (the only place I play where I don't want to risk using my Neteller account, because that is linked to an old, defunct, Party account) looking ever-thinner, I had to move back down to some 2-4 and, of course, I did my bollocks there as well. I am playing so far below my A-Game on Party it just isn't true. OK, the cards are running bad, but the trick is to minimize the losses when that is happening, not go "oh, I think I'm beat here, but I have to call him down to the end". A couple of times I managed to force myself to get away from my hand (correctly), but in most others I was far too addicted to my top pair on the flop. It's a bit of a nightmare when you keep "hitting" your hand (say, J94 two hearts when you have As Jd) only to come up against opposition from one fish and one rock on flop and then on a turn of a Queen, 10 or 8. If the fish is on the button and the rock is in the big blind, you have a horrible decision to make when the rock checks the flop. When things are going well you grit your teeth and bet, and they both fold. Or you sense that the rock is lying in wait, so you check. Other times you grit your teeth and bet and either get called in two positions or get raised by button and flat-called again by the rock. All of a sudden you have no idea where you are and it's a case of "do I call this down or do I walk away?" Invariably you seem to make the wrong choice. Grim.
These periods pass and suddenly you re-enter the zone and go on a rush. The danger at Party at the moment is that I might run out of money there before that happens. And, as the stack gets thinner, you begin to get weak-tight gun-shy, which is fatal.
I have decided that my current monitor isn't quite big enough and I have ordered a replacement. Here it is:
( click here )
Needless to say, I could find every manual for every piece of equipment in the house with the exception of the Rio. So I had resigned myself to going out and having to succumb to the Apple Ipod fan base, and spending a weekend transferring music onto said Ipod. But I had one last ace up my sleeve.
I let the battery run down. That way the hard drive would have to stop whirring like a dervish.
And, lo and behold, it worked. But, for the long term, it looks a bit worrying. Perhaps I should buy my replacement now, so that I have an automatic backup.
That would at least allow me to buy something through Amazon that was not Apple-tinted.
++++
With the bankroll on Party (the only place I play where I don't want to risk using my Neteller account, because that is linked to an old, defunct, Party account) looking ever-thinner, I had to move back down to some 2-4 and, of course, I did my bollocks there as well. I am playing so far below my A-Game on Party it just isn't true. OK, the cards are running bad, but the trick is to minimize the losses when that is happening, not go "oh, I think I'm beat here, but I have to call him down to the end". A couple of times I managed to force myself to get away from my hand (correctly), but in most others I was far too addicted to my top pair on the flop. It's a bit of a nightmare when you keep "hitting" your hand (say, J94 two hearts when you have As Jd) only to come up against opposition from one fish and one rock on flop and then on a turn of a Queen, 10 or 8. If the fish is on the button and the rock is in the big blind, you have a horrible decision to make when the rock checks the flop. When things are going well you grit your teeth and bet, and they both fold. Or you sense that the rock is lying in wait, so you check. Other times you grit your teeth and bet and either get called in two positions or get raised by button and flat-called again by the rock. All of a sudden you have no idea where you are and it's a case of "do I call this down or do I walk away?" Invariably you seem to make the wrong choice. Grim.
These periods pass and suddenly you re-enter the zone and go on a rush. The danger at Party at the moment is that I might run out of money there before that happens. And, as the stack gets thinner, you begin to get weak-tight gun-shy, which is fatal.
I have decided that my current monitor isn't quite big enough and I have ordered a replacement. Here it is:
( click here )
