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Soul To Soul
Oct. 15th, 2007 12:47 pmRumour has it that that only reason Mr Pickle is heading a consortium that wants to buy Northern Rock is that he thought it would be a good name for a record chain. Some of the branches will deal in niche stuff and will rebranded 'Northern Soul'.
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It was only after I started playing in the Stars blogger tournament last night that I remembered that I played in it last year, 'cashed', and never received my goodie bag. I didn't really want it anyway, so I didn't bother to chase it up.
Standard state of affairs. Couldn't get anywhere in the first hour. Went all-in first-in with TT three off the button. Got called by KQ off on the button (nearly all-in for him as well -- gamblers are attracted to my all-ins, with good reason).
King comes on river as usual; I go home now. Slightly relieved, to be frank. Another two hours of that to qualify for a prize that I only had a 50% chance or so of receiving would not have been my idea of fun.
Elsewhere, I managed to get stacked-off pre-flop with KK vs AA. I don't mind getting KK vs AA, but why does it always have to be against the one player whose stats are something like (in this case) 75%/35%? This means that, when his AA is flipped up at the end, it's actually something of a disappointment. So, despite the nice $240 pot that I won earlier in the day, I finished the day a grand total of a dollar up. I'm still trying to decide how to spend it.
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Another 3.2km today, with only a couple of pauses for breath. Less tired this time as well, so progress is clearly being made, at least in the stamina department.
And I've got to take one of the bathroom items back to John Lewis, it being distinctly broken when I took it out of the box. If they ask for the receipt, I have four of them in the bag. I'll let them figure out which is the right one.
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It was only after I started playing in the Stars blogger tournament last night that I remembered that I played in it last year, 'cashed', and never received my goodie bag. I didn't really want it anyway, so I didn't bother to chase it up.
Standard state of affairs. Couldn't get anywhere in the first hour. Went all-in first-in with TT three off the button. Got called by KQ off on the button (nearly all-in for him as well -- gamblers are attracted to my all-ins, with good reason).
King comes on river as usual; I go home now. Slightly relieved, to be frank. Another two hours of that to qualify for a prize that I only had a 50% chance or so of receiving would not have been my idea of fun.
Elsewhere, I managed to get stacked-off pre-flop with KK vs AA. I don't mind getting KK vs AA, but why does it always have to be against the one player whose stats are something like (in this case) 75%/35%? This means that, when his AA is flipped up at the end, it's actually something of a disappointment. So, despite the nice $240 pot that I won earlier in the day, I finished the day a grand total of a dollar up. I'm still trying to decide how to spend it.
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Another 3.2km today, with only a couple of pauses for breath. Less tired this time as well, so progress is clearly being made, at least in the stamina department.
And I've got to take one of the bathroom items back to John Lewis, it being distinctly broken when I took it out of the box. If they ask for the receipt, I have four of them in the bag. I'll let them figure out which is the right one.
