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Mar. 17th, 2010 01:14 pmThe coffee machine was broken yesterday morning. So, in a fit of "why not?" I stopped drinking coffee. I've now gone 24 hours without coffee for what must be the first time in 30 years. Result? Three headaches (possibly four -- it's now just an ache of varying intensity) and my worst performance in the gym for ages.
The latter might be unrelated. It's possible that I'm just shattered anyway. But it's harder to push yourself on when your head is throbbing.
Oh well, we'll see how long we can keep this going. I can't imagine it continuing through France.
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Last night I went to see Enron Brian texted me at very late notice to offer me possibly the worst top-price seats in the house. Then again, I'm always careful to book very early when I go to things, so I do tend to get rather good seats. Brian is more of a Johnny Harrington come lately kind of chap.
And he only had six seats in the first place because he accidentally bought three pairs of seats online, rather than the one pair he wanted. And, in addition, he managed to buy three pairs of seats that weren't together.
Oh well, we all have our foibles; with me it's real-life delivery guys and delivery guys' web sites. I have very little problem with online threatre booking, online flights, or online hotel booking.
Enron was well worth seeing, if only for a superb performance by Samuel West, who must be on stage for three-quarters of the play, and who dominates the conversations. That's a lotta lines to learn! Then again, people do one-man shows for that length.
I was half-expecting to see a David Hare-style Guardianista cartoon story, so the fact that writer Lucy Prebble added considerable ambiguity to the tale was a bonus from the start. Indeed, if anything, I felt that she was a fraction kind on the main baddies - Jeff Skilling, Ken Lay and Andy Fastow. Lay in particular is depicted as a bit too much of a bumbling fool. After all, it was he who first initiated the changes at Enron; and he brought Skilling in from McKinsey.
I was a bit bemused not to recognize the name of one of the leading characters, Claudia Roy, but it turns out that this was because it had been changed/fictionalised from Rebecca Mark, on whom the Roy character is clearly based.
It's difficult when you write fictional accounts of historical events, because how fictional does it have to be before you have to change the name?
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Had a crown fall off yesterday morning, so it's off to the dentist this afternoon.
And I didn't play a single hand of poker yesterday, for the first time in ages. I think it's clear that my aims to maintain supernova and Palladium levels on Stars and Party respectively are (a) unachievable and (b) undesirable. What I haven't decided is what I am going to do about it. Both Supernova and Palladium have plusses attached to them in terms of increased rakeback, but the margin seems better on Stars (or, rather, the penalty for falling by the wayside seems greater). So I might try to keep the Supernova level there.
Have been running v bad this month, some 8 buy-ins below EV. Of course, the EV line doesn't tell you everything, and I don't think that I've been running quite that bad. But it's been a bit tiring and dispiriting. The good news is that, I'm still about level. I'm about 3 buy-ins down in open play, and I've got that back through rakeback.
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Update: Another crap evening when I played like a turd. It's a tough game sometimes, but it's no use externalizing anger when you have no-one to blame but yourself. Just put it down to experience and come back tomorrow.
Now on a 9-buy-in downswing in cash, 5 buy-in downswing in EV. Very hard not to panic and try some re-engineering, but it's only since March 9th, which is nothing in the grand scheme of things. It just SEEMS like forever!
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The latter might be unrelated. It's possible that I'm just shattered anyway. But it's harder to push yourself on when your head is throbbing.
Oh well, we'll see how long we can keep this going. I can't imagine it continuing through France.
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Last night I went to see Enron Brian texted me at very late notice to offer me possibly the worst top-price seats in the house. Then again, I'm always careful to book very early when I go to things, so I do tend to get rather good seats. Brian is more of a Johnny Harrington come lately kind of chap.
And he only had six seats in the first place because he accidentally bought three pairs of seats online, rather than the one pair he wanted. And, in addition, he managed to buy three pairs of seats that weren't together.
Oh well, we all have our foibles; with me it's real-life delivery guys and delivery guys' web sites. I have very little problem with online threatre booking, online flights, or online hotel booking.
Enron was well worth seeing, if only for a superb performance by Samuel West, who must be on stage for three-quarters of the play, and who dominates the conversations. That's a lotta lines to learn! Then again, people do one-man shows for that length.
I was half-expecting to see a David Hare-style Guardianista cartoon story, so the fact that writer Lucy Prebble added considerable ambiguity to the tale was a bonus from the start. Indeed, if anything, I felt that she was a fraction kind on the main baddies - Jeff Skilling, Ken Lay and Andy Fastow. Lay in particular is depicted as a bit too much of a bumbling fool. After all, it was he who first initiated the changes at Enron; and he brought Skilling in from McKinsey.
I was a bit bemused not to recognize the name of one of the leading characters, Claudia Roy, but it turns out that this was because it had been changed/fictionalised from Rebecca Mark, on whom the Roy character is clearly based.
It's difficult when you write fictional accounts of historical events, because how fictional does it have to be before you have to change the name?
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Had a crown fall off yesterday morning, so it's off to the dentist this afternoon.
And I didn't play a single hand of poker yesterday, for the first time in ages. I think it's clear that my aims to maintain supernova and Palladium levels on Stars and Party respectively are (a) unachievable and (b) undesirable. What I haven't decided is what I am going to do about it. Both Supernova and Palladium have plusses attached to them in terms of increased rakeback, but the margin seems better on Stars (or, rather, the penalty for falling by the wayside seems greater). So I might try to keep the Supernova level there.
Have been running v bad this month, some 8 buy-ins below EV. Of course, the EV line doesn't tell you everything, and I don't think that I've been running quite that bad. But it's been a bit tiring and dispiriting. The good news is that, I'm still about level. I'm about 3 buy-ins down in open play, and I've got that back through rakeback.
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Update: Another crap evening when I played like a turd. It's a tough game sometimes, but it's no use externalizing anger when you have no-one to blame but yourself. Just put it down to experience and come back tomorrow.
Now on a 9-buy-in downswing in cash, 5 buy-in downswing in EV. Very hard not to panic and try some re-engineering, but it's only since March 9th, which is nothing in the grand scheme of things. It just SEEMS like forever!
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