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Well, at least the kitchen floor is clean.
As many poker players have recounted, there is little more depressing than going to bed after having spent many many hours at the tables, for a solidly negative return. It isn't the money, it's the fact that you feel that you have utterly wasted a not insignificant part of your life, which, no matter how lucky you are, you can never win back. OK, it's made slightly worse when you say to yourself "oh well, at least I've generated a fair amount of rakeback", only to realize that today was the day that you got your rakeback, and that has been included in the loss. Whoops.
So, this morning was very much a matter of "today I will achieve something" rather than "today I will waste my time sitting at the computer" (yes, I know that, at this very moment, I am wasting my time sitting at a computer. This raises an interesting paradox in that I can think of no other way than sitting at a computer, wasting my time, to tell you that I will not be sitting at a computer, wasting my time).
I've taken the car for a spin, I've burnt a couple of CDs, I've rewritten all those stories that my IT department destroyed yesterday, and I got the requisite 100 Full Tilt points out of the way so that I can play in the Gold freeroll next month (requirement to break even, now just the final table, or maybe the top six). All by midday. I've bought the papers. I'm reading about the BoE fiasco (interesting how little mention there has been of the Fed $20bn bail-out of their mortgage lenders). And, well, Yay the Loonie. Only the forex people in the UK will understand that, but I'm sure my US readers will have noticed with chagrin that the Canadian dollar broke through paruty with the US dollar yesterday. "It's a petro-currency now" said one guy. What with that North Pole territory rights business and all.
Having dropped through parity against the Euro many years ago, and now looking to fall through the Canadian dollar on a long-term basis, one wonders how long it will be before the US dollar is overtaken by the mighty Mexican Peso.
As many poker players have recounted, there is little more depressing than going to bed after having spent many many hours at the tables, for a solidly negative return. It isn't the money, it's the fact that you feel that you have utterly wasted a not insignificant part of your life, which, no matter how lucky you are, you can never win back. OK, it's made slightly worse when you say to yourself "oh well, at least I've generated a fair amount of rakeback", only to realize that today was the day that you got your rakeback, and that has been included in the loss. Whoops.
So, this morning was very much a matter of "today I will achieve something" rather than "today I will waste my time sitting at the computer" (yes, I know that, at this very moment, I am wasting my time sitting at a computer. This raises an interesting paradox in that I can think of no other way than sitting at a computer, wasting my time, to tell you that I will not be sitting at a computer, wasting my time).
I've taken the car for a spin, I've burnt a couple of CDs, I've rewritten all those stories that my IT department destroyed yesterday, and I got the requisite 100 Full Tilt points out of the way so that I can play in the Gold freeroll next month (requirement to break even, now just the final table, or maybe the top six). All by midday. I've bought the papers. I'm reading about the BoE fiasco (interesting how little mention there has been of the Fed $20bn bail-out of their mortgage lenders). And, well, Yay the Loonie. Only the forex people in the UK will understand that, but I'm sure my US readers will have noticed with chagrin that the Canadian dollar broke through paruty with the US dollar yesterday. "It's a petro-currency now" said one guy. What with that North Pole territory rights business and all.
Having dropped through parity against the Euro many years ago, and now looking to fall through the Canadian dollar on a long-term basis, one wonders how long it will be before the US dollar is overtaken by the mighty Mexican Peso.
