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Loneliness of the non-drinking runner
Mar. 21st, 2007 12:01 amMy mortgage offer officially expires Thrsday, so I spoke to C&G today. They seemed very helpful and the guy I talked to held up his hands at one point (as I was heading into rather obscure territory) and admitted that he needed to check something with the supervisor. She gave him the information (which was the right information), and we carried on. Theoretically, C&G now have my application as "pending", i.e., expired, with no request for an extension, but not deceased (unlike various members of the chain, but, well, that's another story).
So, everything is on hold, and we await developments. Oh, and, to add to the fun, my solicitor is ill.
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I ran up some stats on PokerGrapher tonight (in the midst of another couple of sessions of "running bad", but not "running horrific") and it did not make for cheerful viewing. The inescapable conclusion would appear to be that, since August last year, I have been a break-even player at $2-$4. This doesn't include bonuses or rakeback, which is why my profits graph still has an upwards slant. But, playing at the tables, I'm going one step forward, one step back, except with rather more volatility.
It's not that my play has got worse. Indeed, my play has got better. I'm constantly tweaking things and making gradual improvements, but the opposition is getting better faster. I fear that to generate a profit rate akin to that achieved in 2005, I would have to devote almost full-time study to the stats and to playing. And that just isn't worth it. I could do it, but I choose not to. Even for Birks, addiction has its limits.
I'm not even that bothered about it. The money made is nice, but an irrelevancy in the grand scheme of things. The only problem is that if I devote less time to the game than I do at the moment, the chances are that I would become a losing player (practice, and all that).
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There was an interesting news item this morning on "left-field" answers to global warming. One of the proposals that appealed was to create some kind of gigatonic artificial volcanic explosion, thus generating a "volcano winter" (you may remember that when the volcano in, er, Washington State? British Columbia?, blew a decade or so ago, the temperature dropped the following year because of the amount of material blasted into the atmosphere).
But why not take this a logical step further? We all know about the nuclear winter effect. So, why not have a couple of controlled nuclear explosions and a "controlled" nuclear winter to offset global warming? Perhaps these controlled nuclear explosions could be in ooooh, to pick a couple of places at random, Pyongyang and Tehran.
However, my own preferred solution is for us to manufacture a giant parasol, which could be planted in the Earth, rising several hundred miles in the air, being opened when required.
I think a light pink with tassles would be a nice effect as well.
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So, everything is on hold, and we await developments. Oh, and, to add to the fun, my solicitor is ill.
++++++
I ran up some stats on PokerGrapher tonight (in the midst of another couple of sessions of "running bad", but not "running horrific") and it did not make for cheerful viewing. The inescapable conclusion would appear to be that, since August last year, I have been a break-even player at $2-$4. This doesn't include bonuses or rakeback, which is why my profits graph still has an upwards slant. But, playing at the tables, I'm going one step forward, one step back, except with rather more volatility.
It's not that my play has got worse. Indeed, my play has got better. I'm constantly tweaking things and making gradual improvements, but the opposition is getting better faster. I fear that to generate a profit rate akin to that achieved in 2005, I would have to devote almost full-time study to the stats and to playing. And that just isn't worth it. I could do it, but I choose not to. Even for Birks, addiction has its limits.
I'm not even that bothered about it. The money made is nice, but an irrelevancy in the grand scheme of things. The only problem is that if I devote less time to the game than I do at the moment, the chances are that I would become a losing player (practice, and all that).
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There was an interesting news item this morning on "left-field" answers to global warming. One of the proposals that appealed was to create some kind of gigatonic artificial volcanic explosion, thus generating a "volcano winter" (you may remember that when the volcano in, er, Washington State? British Columbia?, blew a decade or so ago, the temperature dropped the following year because of the amount of material blasted into the atmosphere).
But why not take this a logical step further? We all know about the nuclear winter effect. So, why not have a couple of controlled nuclear explosions and a "controlled" nuclear winter to offset global warming? Perhaps these controlled nuclear explosions could be in ooooh, to pick a couple of places at random, Pyongyang and Tehran.
However, my own preferred solution is for us to manufacture a giant parasol, which could be planted in the Earth, rising several hundred miles in the air, being opened when required.
I think a light pink with tassles would be a nice effect as well.
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