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Jan. 15th, 2013 10:11 amA "sudden" cold snap has descended. It's certainly been harder these past two days to drag myself out of bed at 5.15 in the morning.
I've been trying to get four miles of walking in each day through an early-morning walk from Waterloo East to 119 Farringdon Road (1.7 miles), a walk to the gym and return (1.1 miles) and then a walk in the evening back to Cannon Street (1.4 miles). However, yesteday, when the snow decided to fall at its hardest all day just as I left Southwark Station entrance, and at its second-hardest at 3pm as I headed back to Cannon St, yesterday's exercise (walking, thereof) kind of got thrown out of the window. But I did manage the gym.
I started playing "Coin Dozer" or whatever it's called on my phone last night. It's a clever idea -- not so much the game mechanism (you "drop" coins onto the platform and those coins "push" other coins and prizes either to you or down the side into the gulleys -- just like the amusement arcade game) as the Farmville-like coin regeneration. After you have run out of coins you can simply wait for them to regenerate -- the game then tells you when you will have generated the maximum possible (40). If that doesn't get you back playing, then a notification appears in the email/message part of the phone display. Very clever.
I finally watched the Christmas episode of Downton Abbey -- rather disappointing and boring, and definitely over-schmaltzy. But it was enlivened by the appearance of Peter Egan and Phoebe Nicholls as the Sterlings. Both have been character actors in the UK for what seems like forever (Egan as the lead in "A Perfect Spy" and Nicholls coming to attention as Cordelia in "Brideshead Revisited" are signs of how long they have been around). Those kind of actors are who you need at Christmas.
So, I can now head on to Homeland, followed by The Killing. A bit weird, really, since neither got ecstatic reviews. But I've recorded them, and I feel a kind of obligation. Strange.
My gym session last Thursday had fairly horrible after-effects -- not least becuse I rushed off to lunch and did not have time to stretch off. First my left knee swelled up and the tendons were so sore that any bending of the knee (or straightening of it if I maneged to bend it) was very painful. Then on the Saturday the standard quadriceps pain kicked in, and then on Sunday night, most weirdly, the right main chest muscle started to ache badly. That was a real oddity, and I wonder if part of it was down to sitting badly while holding the PC's mouse for several hours.
Poker started well, although the normal 10th to the 20th dip has kicked in. I'm sure that if I didn't play online poker at all between the 10th and the 20th of every month I would win just as much, if not more. A heavy session on Full Tilt got me up to the Gold level, but I think that it's too much to maintain that rakeback (equal to 15% basic before other additions). Silver (10% basic rakeback) looks sustainable.
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I've been trying to get four miles of walking in each day through an early-morning walk from Waterloo East to 119 Farringdon Road (1.7 miles), a walk to the gym and return (1.1 miles) and then a walk in the evening back to Cannon Street (1.4 miles). However, yesteday, when the snow decided to fall at its hardest all day just as I left Southwark Station entrance, and at its second-hardest at 3pm as I headed back to Cannon St, yesterday's exercise (walking, thereof) kind of got thrown out of the window. But I did manage the gym.
I started playing "Coin Dozer" or whatever it's called on my phone last night. It's a clever idea -- not so much the game mechanism (you "drop" coins onto the platform and those coins "push" other coins and prizes either to you or down the side into the gulleys -- just like the amusement arcade game) as the Farmville-like coin regeneration. After you have run out of coins you can simply wait for them to regenerate -- the game then tells you when you will have generated the maximum possible (40). If that doesn't get you back playing, then a notification appears in the email/message part of the phone display. Very clever.
I finally watched the Christmas episode of Downton Abbey -- rather disappointing and boring, and definitely over-schmaltzy. But it was enlivened by the appearance of Peter Egan and Phoebe Nicholls as the Sterlings. Both have been character actors in the UK for what seems like forever (Egan as the lead in "A Perfect Spy" and Nicholls coming to attention as Cordelia in "Brideshead Revisited" are signs of how long they have been around). Those kind of actors are who you need at Christmas.
So, I can now head on to Homeland, followed by The Killing. A bit weird, really, since neither got ecstatic reviews. But I've recorded them, and I feel a kind of obligation. Strange.
My gym session last Thursday had fairly horrible after-effects -- not least becuse I rushed off to lunch and did not have time to stretch off. First my left knee swelled up and the tendons were so sore that any bending of the knee (or straightening of it if I maneged to bend it) was very painful. Then on the Saturday the standard quadriceps pain kicked in, and then on Sunday night, most weirdly, the right main chest muscle started to ache badly. That was a real oddity, and I wonder if part of it was down to sitting badly while holding the PC's mouse for several hours.
Poker started well, although the normal 10th to the 20th dip has kicked in. I'm sure that if I didn't play online poker at all between the 10th and the 20th of every month I would win just as much, if not more. A heavy session on Full Tilt got me up to the Gold level, but I think that it's too much to maintain that rakeback (equal to 15% basic before other additions). Silver (10% basic rakeback) looks sustainable.
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