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I wonder if your feet change in size. I mean, not just swelling up during a long-haul flight, but over a three-month cycle or longer.
I've always been a size eight (although, when someone says "act your age, not your shoe size", I prefer mainland Europe measurements), but when I bought my latest pair of shoes, the eights seemed too loose, so I tried on the seven-and-a-halfs. These fitted fine, or so it seemed, so I bought them.
Anyhoo, I didn't even wear them for a couple of months, as my old Churches were hanging on and were very comfortable. But, eventually, a split appeared on the top, and they were chucked away.
I tried the new shoes the following day and, by the afternoon, they were remarkably tight on me.
I also had a pair of Barkers at home - eights - but these had been too big for me, mainly because they were a wide fitting and I hadn't realized this when I bought them. The following day, I tried these, and they fitted perfectly.
Now, a couple of months later, the Barkers seem loose again, while the smaller Churches seem to fit perfectly. Are my feet expanding and shrinking with the weather?
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I slaughtered my PB on the rowing machine today. 22:41 for 5 kilometres, about 33 seconds inside my previous best. I did some tough upper-body work yesterday, and I wonder if that was a help today. No real sprinting and no real "fast-rowing" music (Arcade Fire has been responsible for all previous PBs in the past few months, but today was just Bob Dylan, Beach Boys, Adverts, and other not-particularly-manic tracks). Just a steady pace and a focus on correct technique.
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I had a good night yesterday at $100 buy-in. Only 300 hands, but it's so long since I won on a Monday that I had forgotten what it was like.
However, here was a difficult hand. NoIQ was awash with tight players, but I feel obliged to put in at least 100 hands just to see if anything or anyone nice turns up. After a couple of rounds at one of my three tables I had spotted that the only player at my table who wasn't of the 4/0 through 11/5 to 18/9 style was the guy on my left, who was 32/25 (I'd played about 100 hands with him before, and he wasn't an idiot).
You don't need to be a genius to work out that my seat position was far from ideal, and I'd decided to play just one more round and then to head of in search of another table.
Then in the small blind, I pick up 88. It's passed round to me. I have about $102 and the Big Blind (the 32/25 guy) has about $153.
Where to from here in this poser of a situation?
I'll post the actual hand history later tonight.
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I've always been a size eight (although, when someone says "act your age, not your shoe size", I prefer mainland Europe measurements), but when I bought my latest pair of shoes, the eights seemed too loose, so I tried on the seven-and-a-halfs. These fitted fine, or so it seemed, so I bought them.
Anyhoo, I didn't even wear them for a couple of months, as my old Churches were hanging on and were very comfortable. But, eventually, a split appeared on the top, and they were chucked away.
I tried the new shoes the following day and, by the afternoon, they were remarkably tight on me.
I also had a pair of Barkers at home - eights - but these had been too big for me, mainly because they were a wide fitting and I hadn't realized this when I bought them. The following day, I tried these, and they fitted perfectly.
Now, a couple of months later, the Barkers seem loose again, while the smaller Churches seem to fit perfectly. Are my feet expanding and shrinking with the weather?
++++++++++++
I slaughtered my PB on the rowing machine today. 22:41 for 5 kilometres, about 33 seconds inside my previous best. I did some tough upper-body work yesterday, and I wonder if that was a help today. No real sprinting and no real "fast-rowing" music (Arcade Fire has been responsible for all previous PBs in the past few months, but today was just Bob Dylan, Beach Boys, Adverts, and other not-particularly-manic tracks). Just a steady pace and a focus on correct technique.
+++++++++++++
I had a good night yesterday at $100 buy-in. Only 300 hands, but it's so long since I won on a Monday that I had forgotten what it was like.
However, here was a difficult hand. NoIQ was awash with tight players, but I feel obliged to put in at least 100 hands just to see if anything or anyone nice turns up. After a couple of rounds at one of my three tables I had spotted that the only player at my table who wasn't of the 4/0 through 11/5 to 18/9 style was the guy on my left, who was 32/25 (I'd played about 100 hands with him before, and he wasn't an idiot).
You don't need to be a genius to work out that my seat position was far from ideal, and I'd decided to play just one more round and then to head of in search of another table.
Then in the small blind, I pick up 88. It's passed round to me. I have about $102 and the Big Blind (the 32/25 guy) has about $153.
Where to from here in this poser of a situation?
I'll post the actual hand history later tonight.
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