Sorry about the lack of everything. Uni is a busy place. But anyway, I have launched a new blog concerning my flat at uni, where we are hopefully going to be talking about the food we make - we are eating like kings!
http://food4students.blogspot.com
Thursday 6 November 2008
Monday 22 September 2008
Weeks Of Late
Oops. It just occurred to me that I haven't posted here for ages. Sorry.
I've made a lot of blogs and have been posting at them to try and earn some money (but failing) and have left out the original blog! How bad am I?
Anyway, its been an exciting past few weeks, I actually have a few things to talk about for once. But when I say exciting I probably mean dull.
My time has been taken up mostly by online poker. Which involved me trying to win freerolls with a huge number of players involved. This plan has not exactly worked. I now feel I need to buy a certain book on texas hold 'em if I wish to progress any further.
I also had a poker night and went to just one party. They were both really fun - but I still wasn't able to even place in the money at my small poker night. However I'd say I got my money's worth because I played about 4 hours of poker, and the game finished 20 minutes after I went out. The party was good too, if not a little sad. It was probably the last time I'll get to see most of my friends for ages because we all go to uni shortly, if they haven't gone already.
I go to Bristol on Sunday to enrol upon my physics course. Although I was anxious for the past week or so, I'm now really excited. Provided there are no problems with my accommodation.
Which leaves this week to prepare for my university experience. But I suspect I'll play much poker still.
I'm really annoyed because I fell for one of those online scams, and spent 90 dollars on an internet marketing course. I say it is an online scam, but it isn't really. I paid for the course, and I got the course, which incidentally was very impressive. But I thought it was going to make me a lot of money, and I just can't be bothered to put in the effort anymore to try and get things going - mainly because I'd have to invest a little more money. I am annoyed though because it means I don't have much money to start uni with, which would cover a lot of hidden costs. What's more is the fact that ebay are now charging me random charges which I can't really afford to pay. I'm not sure if I've even make a profit out of the warhammer I sold for my friend because the actual profits I calculated seem to be lower than I thought.
But oh well. This is what happens when you don't get a summer job. My last chance now is to win a freeroll and then win a couple of hundred pounds this week playing poker :p
I've made a lot of blogs and have been posting at them to try and earn some money (but failing) and have left out the original blog! How bad am I?
Anyway, its been an exciting past few weeks, I actually have a few things to talk about for once. But when I say exciting I probably mean dull.
My time has been taken up mostly by online poker. Which involved me trying to win freerolls with a huge number of players involved. This plan has not exactly worked. I now feel I need to buy a certain book on texas hold 'em if I wish to progress any further.
I also had a poker night and went to just one party. They were both really fun - but I still wasn't able to even place in the money at my small poker night. However I'd say I got my money's worth because I played about 4 hours of poker, and the game finished 20 minutes after I went out. The party was good too, if not a little sad. It was probably the last time I'll get to see most of my friends for ages because we all go to uni shortly, if they haven't gone already.
I go to Bristol on Sunday to enrol upon my physics course. Although I was anxious for the past week or so, I'm now really excited. Provided there are no problems with my accommodation.
Which leaves this week to prepare for my university experience. But I suspect I'll play much poker still.
I'm really annoyed because I fell for one of those online scams, and spent 90 dollars on an internet marketing course. I say it is an online scam, but it isn't really. I paid for the course, and I got the course, which incidentally was very impressive. But I thought it was going to make me a lot of money, and I just can't be bothered to put in the effort anymore to try and get things going - mainly because I'd have to invest a little more money. I am annoyed though because it means I don't have much money to start uni with, which would cover a lot of hidden costs. What's more is the fact that ebay are now charging me random charges which I can't really afford to pay. I'm not sure if I've even make a profit out of the warhammer I sold for my friend because the actual profits I calculated seem to be lower than I thought.
But oh well. This is what happens when you don't get a summer job. My last chance now is to win a freeroll and then win a couple of hundred pounds this week playing poker :p
Saturday 13 September 2008
I did it!
I finally made the money in one of these freerolls I keep going on about. I came 42nd out of 2000, which paid me the huge sum of 9 cents :p. I'm happy. It gives me the confidence to go on and win more hopefully. Once my bankroll reaches $1.10 I think I'll enter a 10 player sit&go, aiming to win about $5 from it. So fingers crossed I may actually do it some day.
I take back what I said in my last post about the play being impossible. Provided you don't make stupid bets or calls, and are very tight, it is possible to go a long way with a little luck too. Only playing the best hands, and then playing aggressively.
So its good.
I take back what I said in my last post about the play being impossible. Provided you don't make stupid bets or calls, and are very tight, it is possible to go a long way with a little luck too. Only playing the best hands, and then playing aggressively.
So its good.
Thursday 11 September 2008
The Poker
Ok so looks like we didn't all die yesterday. Which is a good thing. Now I really want to know how the experiment at CERN went, and if they had any interesting results that were immediately apparent.
But anyway. The title of this post is again about poker. So that is what I shall discuss - again.
If you have been keeping up with my blog you will be aware that I am trying to win my way into playing poker online with real money. This is because I have vowed never to use my own money online. A good vow. But one that is annoying me at present. I have to win a tournament or place in the top 80. Only problem is that there are 2000 opponents trying to do the same thing, since the tournament is free to enter, and you can win a little money if you acheive a top 80 finish.
The thing that makes these tournaments so hard is that because they are free to enter a lot of people don't really care about how they do. So until about the top 200 you have players constantly going all in. I know that this is a big element of no limit hold 'em, but why would people consistently go all in on things like 10 high? When a lot of players go all in at the beginning, inevitably one of the players that don't care wins. That means they double or triple up, and then make it a bit further down the line with their poor strategy. This is incredibly frustrating. I'll find myself going into pots on a good hand and having to make bad decisions just because I can't see a pot to showdown without going all in.
The amount of all-ins severely inhibits the skill you can play with. So I find myself of late unable to finish in the top 400. Although I think this is also partly down to impatience. By the time I have waited for all the gamblers to go out of the tournament, the blinds are so high that I myself am forced to go all in. Not a good way to play poker. I suppose all I can do is keep trying until I get lucky and win a few chips at the beginning, then I might be able to progress through the tournament.
This is therefore why my vow not to use any of my own money is annoying. I can't play much proper poker because of it. But a vow is a vow, no matter how tempted I may be I shall have to always resist it. For now I'll just have to hope that I can place well in one of these tournaments. I still have to be grateful that PKR have these freerolls going so that I can potentially play for real money one day.
If anyone has any ideas on what I could do to reach the money in these tournaments please comment. At the moment I'm playing tight aggressive as best I can.
But anyway. The title of this post is again about poker. So that is what I shall discuss - again.
If you have been keeping up with my blog you will be aware that I am trying to win my way into playing poker online with real money. This is because I have vowed never to use my own money online. A good vow. But one that is annoying me at present. I have to win a tournament or place in the top 80. Only problem is that there are 2000 opponents trying to do the same thing, since the tournament is free to enter, and you can win a little money if you acheive a top 80 finish.
The thing that makes these tournaments so hard is that because they are free to enter a lot of people don't really care about how they do. So until about the top 200 you have players constantly going all in. I know that this is a big element of no limit hold 'em, but why would people consistently go all in on things like 10 high? When a lot of players go all in at the beginning, inevitably one of the players that don't care wins. That means they double or triple up, and then make it a bit further down the line with their poor strategy. This is incredibly frustrating. I'll find myself going into pots on a good hand and having to make bad decisions just because I can't see a pot to showdown without going all in.
The amount of all-ins severely inhibits the skill you can play with. So I find myself of late unable to finish in the top 400. Although I think this is also partly down to impatience. By the time I have waited for all the gamblers to go out of the tournament, the blinds are so high that I myself am forced to go all in. Not a good way to play poker. I suppose all I can do is keep trying until I get lucky and win a few chips at the beginning, then I might be able to progress through the tournament.
This is therefore why my vow not to use any of my own money is annoying. I can't play much proper poker because of it. But a vow is a vow, no matter how tempted I may be I shall have to always resist it. For now I'll just have to hope that I can place well in one of these tournaments. I still have to be grateful that PKR have these freerolls going so that I can potentially play for real money one day.
If anyone has any ideas on what I could do to reach the money in these tournaments please comment. At the moment I'm playing tight aggressive as best I can.
Wednesday 10 September 2008
Gotta love the Royal Mail
I've been getting to know the Royal Mail quite a lot better this summer thanks to my ebay ventures.
Before ebay I had never sent a package, and letters had been done by asking my parents for a stamp. Now I could tell you quite a lot about posting various things at the post office. Another great facility. Essentially they are one and the same, seemingly functioning incredibly smoothly.
I got my best feedback today on ebay. It was: 'Totally Awesome! If I could give 6 stars for speed I would! Thank you!'
To be honest I was suprised to get any feedback at all today. The guy I sold the item to paid for it at 4pm yesterday, I took it to the post office at 4.30pm and he received it today. This was just standard first class post - pretty impressive I think. Since he wasn't expecting it for about 5 working days I daresay he was more suprised than me.
So the Royal Mail takes your letter or parcel, and posts it to wherever you detail on the front. We take this service for granted so much. What would we do otherwise? Drive the letter a couple of hundred miles and find the person's house? This is why I also think it is an incredibly good value service. I can send a small package a couple of hundred miles for just £1.45, and it will get there within 24 hours. I know the delivery time I got yesterday was exceptional, but the same principal applies. Your letter/package travels a long way for a very small cost.
So that is why I commend the royal mail. And I say please don't close the post offices. They're awesome :p.
Complimentary Rant over.
Before ebay I had never sent a package, and letters had been done by asking my parents for a stamp. Now I could tell you quite a lot about posting various things at the post office. Another great facility. Essentially they are one and the same, seemingly functioning incredibly smoothly.
I got my best feedback today on ebay. It was: 'Totally Awesome! If I could give 6 stars for speed I would! Thank you!'
To be honest I was suprised to get any feedback at all today. The guy I sold the item to paid for it at 4pm yesterday, I took it to the post office at 4.30pm and he received it today. This was just standard first class post - pretty impressive I think. Since he wasn't expecting it for about 5 working days I daresay he was more suprised than me.
So the Royal Mail takes your letter or parcel, and posts it to wherever you detail on the front. We take this service for granted so much. What would we do otherwise? Drive the letter a couple of hundred miles and find the person's house? This is why I also think it is an incredibly good value service. I can send a small package a couple of hundred miles for just £1.45, and it will get there within 24 hours. I know the delivery time I got yesterday was exceptional, but the same principal applies. Your letter/package travels a long way for a very small cost.
So that is why I commend the royal mail. And I say please don't close the post offices. They're awesome :p.
Complimentary Rant over.
Tuesday 9 September 2008
Will we all die tomorrow?
Well tomorrow is the CERN switch on date. Which means that they will accelerate a couple of protons around the Large Hadron Collider at 0.99 times the speed of light, and then collide them.
But for what? Just to find out whether the Higgs Boson exists, which may prove or disprove the Standard Model of particles and the universe that Scientists, Physicists in particular, live by.
Is this a worthy cause for so much investment? Ok so if it was found then it would provide many answers to a lot of the big physics questions like what happened in big bang, and it will validate a lot of theories. But surely the huge investment of several billion could have been used elsewhere to solve some of the major human issues in the world? CERN has been funded so that some scientists can play around with molecules and answer some of the big questions in science. Now obviously we'd all like to know these answers - people interested in the origin of like etc. But at what cost? Maybe we could have gone a long way towards solving poverty in the world and other such things. Personally, as a soon to be physics undergraduate, I think it has been a waste.
There is also the danger which everyone is worrying about, that a black hole could be formed. This would only be a minature black hole, but isn't that the poitn of black holes? They are tiny points of infinite density, which everything gets sucked into once inside their event horizon. So if CERN manage to make a black hole won't this doom the earth? Well apparently not. In theory any black hole will collapse upon itself, and we'll all be fine. But that is still a theory! It could be completely wrong! I guess we find out tomorrow. Surely they shouldn't do something threatening all existence if there is even the slightest chance it could happen? Obviously as someone who isn't fully familiar with black holes I can't really comment. But a point still stands. All their theories about black holes are based upon things that are many billions of miles away in the cosmos. The reaction they are also reproducing is similar to that which occurred in the big bang, just on a smaller scale. Surely recreating the big bang on earth isn't a great idea?
I am sure it will be absolutely fine, but I still have a niggling feeling that it could not be. I suspect I'm just paranoid. Again. But if we did die because of a black hole spawning in Switzerland would it be so bad? I doubt we'd have time to think, but if we did I suspect the last thoughts of many would be 'CERN!! Grrrr' ok maybe people might be more annoyed than that, perhaps despair and all the other stuff would come to their mind. This is why I'd be bad at philosophy. But anyway, that isn't going to happen. We'll be fine. Life will go on. I hope.
My biggest annoyance with CERN is the fact that the huge amount of money could have perhaps been better used elsewhere. Yet the findings of CERN will probably benefit me quite a lot because I am about to become a physicist. So I'm sure I'll get over it, but maybe a little bitterly.
But for what? Just to find out whether the Higgs Boson exists, which may prove or disprove the Standard Model of particles and the universe that Scientists, Physicists in particular, live by.
Is this a worthy cause for so much investment? Ok so if it was found then it would provide many answers to a lot of the big physics questions like what happened in big bang, and it will validate a lot of theories. But surely the huge investment of several billion could have been used elsewhere to solve some of the major human issues in the world? CERN has been funded so that some scientists can play around with molecules and answer some of the big questions in science. Now obviously we'd all like to know these answers - people interested in the origin of like etc. But at what cost? Maybe we could have gone a long way towards solving poverty in the world and other such things. Personally, as a soon to be physics undergraduate, I think it has been a waste.
There is also the danger which everyone is worrying about, that a black hole could be formed. This would only be a minature black hole, but isn't that the poitn of black holes? They are tiny points of infinite density, which everything gets sucked into once inside their event horizon. So if CERN manage to make a black hole won't this doom the earth? Well apparently not. In theory any black hole will collapse upon itself, and we'll all be fine. But that is still a theory! It could be completely wrong! I guess we find out tomorrow. Surely they shouldn't do something threatening all existence if there is even the slightest chance it could happen? Obviously as someone who isn't fully familiar with black holes I can't really comment. But a point still stands. All their theories about black holes are based upon things that are many billions of miles away in the cosmos. The reaction they are also reproducing is similar to that which occurred in the big bang, just on a smaller scale. Surely recreating the big bang on earth isn't a great idea?
I am sure it will be absolutely fine, but I still have a niggling feeling that it could not be. I suspect I'm just paranoid. Again. But if we did die because of a black hole spawning in Switzerland would it be so bad? I doubt we'd have time to think, but if we did I suspect the last thoughts of many would be 'CERN!! Grrrr' ok maybe people might be more annoyed than that, perhaps despair and all the other stuff would come to their mind. This is why I'd be bad at philosophy. But anyway, that isn't going to happen. We'll be fine. Life will go on. I hope.
My biggest annoyance with CERN is the fact that the huge amount of money could have perhaps been better used elsewhere. Yet the findings of CERN will probably benefit me quite a lot because I am about to become a physicist. So I'm sure I'll get over it, but maybe a little bitterly.
Friday 5 September 2008
Results of my summer money attempts...
So the summer has now gone, although I have a few weeks holiday left. How did my small plans for making money pay off?
Well if you never read my earlier blogs or have forgotten my plans I'll remind you.
I couldn't find a job because I left it too late and was too honest, so that left me with these options: sell stuff on ebay, find ways to make money online.
The ebay selling has gone well. My last 2 pieces of warhammer are up for sale now, and I estimate that I have made about £100 in total from selling it. Although it cost me about £250, I wasn't going to use it again, so I can consider this total a profit. Not only that but I am now selling some of my friend's warhammer for a 10% commision. This isn't really worth it because at the most I'd make about £10 for quite a lot of effort. Since running out of warhammer to sell I have been looking for other stuff I can sell. This search gave poor results (mainly because I only thought about it in my head) but then I stumbled upon a scalextric car on ebay. I had a number of scalextric cars, and am now selling a couple on ebay. Some of them hold far more sentimental value to me than my warhammer did. Just because I used them a lot more I suppose, and they remind me of my joyous youth.
The Caterham 7 Gulf #1, which I am currently selling, seems to be really rare. A new one has currently been bid up to £42 and the auction is a few days from finishing, so my fingers are crossed! There seems to be a fair amount of interest in my little caterham, which I am rather fond of, so I hope the buyer takes good care of it!
That is about the full extent of my ebay money making plans. Reasonably successful I'd say, although I could have made more money on the warhammer if I hadn't sold most of it to a chap that came to my house and bought most of my collection for £56.
What other ways could I possibly have had? lol. If only I had found a job...sigh.
Well, after research I found out that blogging was quite the little earner. So I started this blog. I started it on wordpress with the aim of joining a pay per post site once I had blogged for 30 days. Sadly when I reached this stage I found out that wordpress wouldn't allow you to use your blog in this manner. So I came here, to blogger. Now blogger would let me put adverts on my site, so far I have earnt a little bit from ads. My blog would be a nice little earner, but I'm just not getting enough traffic to do so. I get about 3 or 4 views a day, most from the same person :p, so the blogging hasn't really come through for me. I don't think my blog is interesting enough to be honest.
The other plans I had were stock photography and gambling lol. The stock photography turned out to be too hard to get approved photos. I had one which was approved a couple of months ago, and as yet I don't think anyone has downloaded it. The gambling was something I was never going to do. I was tempted to do roulette, doubling my bet on red and black each time to make a small profit every win, but gambling online isn't something I want to start doing.
However when pokerstars gave me $5 free money to play with, I thought why not try and earn some money through poker - at least there is skill involved. This was a good plan until I found out that I am/was actually crap at poker lol. I made some research into how to be a good poker player, but I never really cared enough about the money I was given to play properly.
When this was depleted I looked around for other ways I could play poker online without investing any of my own money. Last night this was in fact. So anyway, I found PKR.com after watching one of their tournaments on TV. They have freerolls, where you can win a small amount of cash ($1-$5), and enter for free. This is great, but a freeroll is a tournament. Because it's free everyone wants to enter. Registering isn't a problem, but you are playing against 2000 players for this small amount of cash. To win one of these tournaments would probably take 3-4 hours? They are fun nonetheless though, and my only route to becoming semi-pro at poker, because I have vowed never to use my own money. I finished my best one an hour ago, with a position I was most proud of. 152nd. Now I think that is impressive for a 2000 people tournament. Sadly you only start getting paid at 80th place, and only 14 cents. But it's a good start. I also came 9th out of 244 players in a play money tournament, which I was also pleased with. So maybe there is still hope for earning money online.
PKR is incidently really good. You make an avatar look however you wish and then play with them against other people and their avatars. So its as close as you can get to playing the real thing with people in the room with you. (its all 3D graphics) The TV program just puts a high profile tournament table on, and has a few commentators. If that is all you need to do to make good tv then its a fairly decent program I'd say. Although when the editors leave the bits which the commentators ask to be cut in the program it does help. I was laughing anyway.
So that is the sum total of my money earning exploits this summer. (a few jobs for my Dad got me a bit too).
Interesting? Or was that another waste of time :p
Well if you never read my earlier blogs or have forgotten my plans I'll remind you.
I couldn't find a job because I left it too late and was too honest, so that left me with these options: sell stuff on ebay, find ways to make money online.
The ebay selling has gone well. My last 2 pieces of warhammer are up for sale now, and I estimate that I have made about £100 in total from selling it. Although it cost me about £250, I wasn't going to use it again, so I can consider this total a profit. Not only that but I am now selling some of my friend's warhammer for a 10% commision. This isn't really worth it because at the most I'd make about £10 for quite a lot of effort. Since running out of warhammer to sell I have been looking for other stuff I can sell. This search gave poor results (mainly because I only thought about it in my head) but then I stumbled upon a scalextric car on ebay. I had a number of scalextric cars, and am now selling a couple on ebay. Some of them hold far more sentimental value to me than my warhammer did. Just because I used them a lot more I suppose, and they remind me of my joyous youth.
The Caterham 7 Gulf #1, which I am currently selling, seems to be really rare. A new one has currently been bid up to £42 and the auction is a few days from finishing, so my fingers are crossed! There seems to be a fair amount of interest in my little caterham, which I am rather fond of, so I hope the buyer takes good care of it!
That is about the full extent of my ebay money making plans. Reasonably successful I'd say, although I could have made more money on the warhammer if I hadn't sold most of it to a chap that came to my house and bought most of my collection for £56.
What other ways could I possibly have had? lol. If only I had found a job...sigh.
Well, after research I found out that blogging was quite the little earner. So I started this blog. I started it on wordpress with the aim of joining a pay per post site once I had blogged for 30 days. Sadly when I reached this stage I found out that wordpress wouldn't allow you to use your blog in this manner. So I came here, to blogger. Now blogger would let me put adverts on my site, so far I have earnt a little bit from ads. My blog would be a nice little earner, but I'm just not getting enough traffic to do so. I get about 3 or 4 views a day, most from the same person :p, so the blogging hasn't really come through for me. I don't think my blog is interesting enough to be honest.
The other plans I had were stock photography and gambling lol. The stock photography turned out to be too hard to get approved photos. I had one which was approved a couple of months ago, and as yet I don't think anyone has downloaded it. The gambling was something I was never going to do. I was tempted to do roulette, doubling my bet on red and black each time to make a small profit every win, but gambling online isn't something I want to start doing.
However when pokerstars gave me $5 free money to play with, I thought why not try and earn some money through poker - at least there is skill involved. This was a good plan until I found out that I am/was actually crap at poker lol. I made some research into how to be a good poker player, but I never really cared enough about the money I was given to play properly.
When this was depleted I looked around for other ways I could play poker online without investing any of my own money. Last night this was in fact. So anyway, I found PKR.com after watching one of their tournaments on TV. They have freerolls, where you can win a small amount of cash ($1-$5), and enter for free. This is great, but a freeroll is a tournament. Because it's free everyone wants to enter. Registering isn't a problem, but you are playing against 2000 players for this small amount of cash. To win one of these tournaments would probably take 3-4 hours? They are fun nonetheless though, and my only route to becoming semi-pro at poker, because I have vowed never to use my own money. I finished my best one an hour ago, with a position I was most proud of. 152nd. Now I think that is impressive for a 2000 people tournament. Sadly you only start getting paid at 80th place, and only 14 cents. But it's a good start. I also came 9th out of 244 players in a play money tournament, which I was also pleased with. So maybe there is still hope for earning money online.
PKR is incidently really good. You make an avatar look however you wish and then play with them against other people and their avatars. So its as close as you can get to playing the real thing with people in the room with you. (its all 3D graphics) The TV program just puts a high profile tournament table on, and has a few commentators. If that is all you need to do to make good tv then its a fairly decent program I'd say. Although when the editors leave the bits which the commentators ask to be cut in the program it does help. I was laughing anyway.
So that is the sum total of my money earning exploits this summer. (a few jobs for my Dad got me a bit too).
Interesting? Or was that another waste of time :p
Thursday 4 September 2008
No More Poker
Lol. I have 7 cents left of the initial $5 I was given. I don't blame it on my lack of skill. I blame it on my lack of patience. I'd find myself making stupid bets. When I was at $2.50 I did some research on how to play texas hold 'em effectively, but in the end I couldn't be bothered with it.
It should help whenever I play normally now in real life though. I lacked patience because it wasn't my own money and I didn't seem to be winning much because it was such low stakes. If it were my own money I'd have been more careful.
I did do a few 360 player tournaments though. With a ten cent buy in. My best finish was 31st, followed by 48th and 61st. So not too bad. But then no one really cares about those tournaments. Its down to about 280 players after around 5 minutes because everyone goes all in constantly.
Once I didn't have enough money to go back on at the real money tables I thought I'd give play money another try. I entered a medium stakes tournament (10000 chips), so everyone was alright I spose. I managed to finish first out of 18 in that, and get 72000 chips. So obviously I'm doing something right now. The research I had done made me realise that my previous playing style was awful. I thought I was good because I had done a lot of poker over the years. But this just made me experienced at playing badly! If you win a few games playing badly, you'll think it works well. But it makes a lot more sense to play tight aggressive. I was playing loose aggressive I think. If anyone knows what those mean.
The winning of the small tournament made me tempted to invest about 50p of my own money in a real money tournament. But sadly I can't. Its a slippery slope, so I have vowed never to do it. I'll just have to hold another poker night at my house and see how I do.
It should help whenever I play normally now in real life though. I lacked patience because it wasn't my own money and I didn't seem to be winning much because it was such low stakes. If it were my own money I'd have been more careful.
I did do a few 360 player tournaments though. With a ten cent buy in. My best finish was 31st, followed by 48th and 61st. So not too bad. But then no one really cares about those tournaments. Its down to about 280 players after around 5 minutes because everyone goes all in constantly.
Once I didn't have enough money to go back on at the real money tables I thought I'd give play money another try. I entered a medium stakes tournament (10000 chips), so everyone was alright I spose. I managed to finish first out of 18 in that, and get 72000 chips. So obviously I'm doing something right now. The research I had done made me realise that my previous playing style was awful. I thought I was good because I had done a lot of poker over the years. But this just made me experienced at playing badly! If you win a few games playing badly, you'll think it works well. But it makes a lot more sense to play tight aggressive. I was playing loose aggressive I think. If anyone knows what those mean.
The winning of the small tournament made me tempted to invest about 50p of my own money in a real money tournament. But sadly I can't. Its a slippery slope, so I have vowed never to do it. I'll just have to hold another poker night at my house and see how I do.
Tuesday 2 September 2008
Poker
I feel I should write a blog - haven't done one for ages.
I seem to have been playing a lot of poker recently, over the last two days. It has all been on pokerstars. They gave me $5 so I could try playing with real money. They may have hooked me in, however I have vowed never to use my own money on it. Which means I have to try and get as far as I can on this $5. So far I'm about even, having lost about a dollar of it last night.
The trick to playing the tables it seems, is patience. Wait for a good hand, and then, and only then, play it. But it's often tempting to play the worse hands.
Last night I seemed to be really lucky at times. I had a royal flush. The second I have ever seen come up in play. I also had pocket aces 3 times. Lucky.
I also tried my hand at a few 10 cent buy in tournaments. These had 360 players, and the top 36 places got paid. My best finish was 31st. Although I was quite happy to make the money, I only won 20 cents. So not really worth the hour and a half of play. I say that but it was quite fun, and I recovered some of my old poker experience from a few years ago. Plus I was doing other stuff at the same time.
Hopefully I won't become addicted, but it shouldn't matter if I'm not going to put any of my own money in. Who knows? Maybe I could make a bit of money?
I seem to have been playing a lot of poker recently, over the last two days. It has all been on pokerstars. They gave me $5 so I could try playing with real money. They may have hooked me in, however I have vowed never to use my own money on it. Which means I have to try and get as far as I can on this $5. So far I'm about even, having lost about a dollar of it last night.
The trick to playing the tables it seems, is patience. Wait for a good hand, and then, and only then, play it. But it's often tempting to play the worse hands.
Last night I seemed to be really lucky at times. I had a royal flush. The second I have ever seen come up in play. I also had pocket aces 3 times. Lucky.
I also tried my hand at a few 10 cent buy in tournaments. These had 360 players, and the top 36 places got paid. My best finish was 31st. Although I was quite happy to make the money, I only won 20 cents. So not really worth the hour and a half of play. I say that but it was quite fun, and I recovered some of my old poker experience from a few years ago. Plus I was doing other stuff at the same time.
Hopefully I won't become addicted, but it shouldn't matter if I'm not going to put any of my own money in. Who knows? Maybe I could make a bit of money?
Friday 29 August 2008
Media
I'm not in the right mood to write this blog at the moment, but I haven't done one for some time, so will write it anyway.
The Media.
I don't like it, therefore I don't pay attention to it. This makes my life much happier. I used to watch the news all the time about a year ago, just because my family does. But I was finding myself constantly depressed about the state of affairs in the world. Global warming, war, poverty, terrorism, death; things to invoke fear in our hearts.
The news rarely reports the good stuff. The best we get is about an overweight rabbit, or some child that can read. But I suppose that is the local news struggling to get stories. I remember once being told about a local paper that had the headline: Old Man Dies of Old Age.
But anyway, I'm drifting from the point I was attempting to make. The news, in most of its forms strives to give bad news. Admittedly these are the more interesting stories, and I suppose we need to know about them if we want to know about the whole world's events. But stop there. Do we need to know about everything going on in the world? Is there anything that the common person will do about it? No. They will just acknowledge it, and go about their daily lives. Perhaps they'll use it to make conversation with someone at some point. But most likely they'll worry. So this is what I was doing. The stories of tragedy and the suffering of others made me somewhat depressed. I felt like it was unlikely I'd make it to the next year, without some sort disaster happening. Maybe I'd get stabbed or shot, or there would be a hurricane. Ok maybe I'm exaggerating a little. But I didn't see much hope for this world. Then it occurred to me. If I can't help them (Not at this immediate point in time), then why watch the news at all? Especially if it depresses me.
Ignorant bliss. I must admit I'm not in complete ignorant bliss. I vaguely know what is going on, and the main stories somehow get into my subconscious. But I will listen to my ipod instead of the news at dinner time.
The reason my life has been so sheltered is because of the news. I am barely able to cycle on the road. I can't be in town at midnight. I must fear everyone, and never trust anyone I don't know. According to my mum. This is because incidents such as stabbings are reported on the news regularly. This makes them seem common. However they are a very small percentage of the deaths caused in one day. A cyclist may have had a nasty accident on the news, but it doesn't mean I shouldn't cycle. As long as I'm careful, and take all necessary safety precautions I should be ok shouldn't I? I'd rather live life not constantly worried and paranoid, than in a protective bubble, where enjoyment is nil.
I think I may be over sensitive to the news stories, and my mum watches too much of it. But I know I have been happier with myself since I reduced my intake. If you find yourself worried that the world is in a state. Slow down, take a look around, and appreciate the beauty of nature (if you can).
I do wish my thoughts were less jumbled and came in coherent structures. But I'm sure that will come with time. If I don't listen to music and edit the posts properly it may work better :p.
What do you think about the media? Am I too sensitive or do I have a point? Feel free to make a comment.
The Media.
I don't like it, therefore I don't pay attention to it. This makes my life much happier. I used to watch the news all the time about a year ago, just because my family does. But I was finding myself constantly depressed about the state of affairs in the world. Global warming, war, poverty, terrorism, death; things to invoke fear in our hearts.
The news rarely reports the good stuff. The best we get is about an overweight rabbit, or some child that can read. But I suppose that is the local news struggling to get stories. I remember once being told about a local paper that had the headline: Old Man Dies of Old Age.
But anyway, I'm drifting from the point I was attempting to make. The news, in most of its forms strives to give bad news. Admittedly these are the more interesting stories, and I suppose we need to know about them if we want to know about the whole world's events. But stop there. Do we need to know about everything going on in the world? Is there anything that the common person will do about it? No. They will just acknowledge it, and go about their daily lives. Perhaps they'll use it to make conversation with someone at some point. But most likely they'll worry. So this is what I was doing. The stories of tragedy and the suffering of others made me somewhat depressed. I felt like it was unlikely I'd make it to the next year, without some sort disaster happening. Maybe I'd get stabbed or shot, or there would be a hurricane. Ok maybe I'm exaggerating a little. But I didn't see much hope for this world. Then it occurred to me. If I can't help them (Not at this immediate point in time), then why watch the news at all? Especially if it depresses me.
Ignorant bliss. I must admit I'm not in complete ignorant bliss. I vaguely know what is going on, and the main stories somehow get into my subconscious. But I will listen to my ipod instead of the news at dinner time.
The reason my life has been so sheltered is because of the news. I am barely able to cycle on the road. I can't be in town at midnight. I must fear everyone, and never trust anyone I don't know. According to my mum. This is because incidents such as stabbings are reported on the news regularly. This makes them seem common. However they are a very small percentage of the deaths caused in one day. A cyclist may have had a nasty accident on the news, but it doesn't mean I shouldn't cycle. As long as I'm careful, and take all necessary safety precautions I should be ok shouldn't I? I'd rather live life not constantly worried and paranoid, than in a protective bubble, where enjoyment is nil.
I think I may be over sensitive to the news stories, and my mum watches too much of it. But I know I have been happier with myself since I reduced my intake. If you find yourself worried that the world is in a state. Slow down, take a look around, and appreciate the beauty of nature (if you can).
I do wish my thoughts were less jumbled and came in coherent structures. But I'm sure that will come with time. If I don't listen to music and edit the posts properly it may work better :p.
What do you think about the media? Am I too sensitive or do I have a point? Feel free to make a comment.
Wednesday 27 August 2008
Politics of Britain
I am home, alone. Sort of bored, sort of not. I want to do exercise, but don't. And feel I need to write a blog on here for anyone that looks. So here goes. This does of course mean I have nothing to talk about that is interesting - again. Which reminds me that I said I would write about something deeper. I was just talking to someone about politics. So politics it is.
Disclaimer: I know little about politics. Well actually I know a bit, but it may not be right, and my source of information of late appears to be 'mock the week'.
From what I can tell, the British Government seems a bit crap. It also seems to me that it will stay this way even if a new party gets elected. The Conservatives aren't going to do anything different. Maybe tighten up immigration restrictions, which won't make a lot of difference since we are already up to capacity of what our country can handle in terms of amenities. Should the Liberal Democrats get into power, then I doubt they would change much because they wouldn't really be expecting to get into power.
Which leaves us pretty stuck. I haven't looked at any of their policies, so they may be promising to change stuff, but ultimately things will stay the same. Hopefully the country will stabilise at least.
From what I can tell, we are heading for a recession - well we are already in one, but it is going to worsen. Important government documents are continuously being leaked, or left on the train. A lot of pointless laws are being passed, and a lot of unfair initiatives are being introduced/have been introduced. One example: EMA. Couldn't this be better regulated? It is a great idea, although everyone not on it complains that they don't get paid to go to school. But even so, I have heard countless stories of incredibly rich people that qualify for it because their parents don't earn more than the required amount for some reason. Some loop hole I think. My friend's parents are millionaires. He always has a lot of money. He skips lessons. He then writes on the EMA form that he was ill. Then goes and collects his weekly money. Better regulation is needed here I think.
(EMA is a weekly allowance that students receive if they qualify and go to all their lessons.)
Another thing that was talked about recently was health and safety. This really has gotten out of hand. They would have us all housebound if they could. With the walls padded, and nothing we could injure ourselves on. Teachers no longer do school trips because of the paperwork. A teacher friend of my parents was complaining that her pupils were not allowed to go outside unsupervised. There are no other teachers to help supervise, so her pupils have a worse time, she has more stress. There are so many incidences where health and safety overrules common sense. A child will live if it grazes it's knee. (unless it contracts MRSA or something)
So there are problems everywhere. I just remembered the NHS. That isn't great either is it.
But to be honest the government is probably not doing to badly. The media only reports on the bad things. They blow them up to make them seem worse than they are too. This is why I do not watch the news anymore. It makes me depressed.
Lets just say the government is doing its job, they aren't perfect, but they are probably trying. After all they are under scrutiny from everyone. Besides, few people our going to make the effort to go and change it. We'll all manage. Let the complaining stop. It's not like we are in a dictatorship. Be happy.
This might seem a radical change of heart, but it's only because I remembered how bad the media is. If anyone should be taking stick, it's the news, it's the tabloids. The government is going to try and sort the problems out as best they can. Why doesn't everyone just leave them alone?
Their personal lives at least. I am aware that this is how a democracy works, and the media are important. But is it really necessary to invade their personal lives?
This post has become rather jumbled. Next time I'll post on the media. It won't be all over the place.
Disclaimer: I know little about politics. Well actually I know a bit, but it may not be right, and my source of information of late appears to be 'mock the week'.
From what I can tell, the British Government seems a bit crap. It also seems to me that it will stay this way even if a new party gets elected. The Conservatives aren't going to do anything different. Maybe tighten up immigration restrictions, which won't make a lot of difference since we are already up to capacity of what our country can handle in terms of amenities. Should the Liberal Democrats get into power, then I doubt they would change much because they wouldn't really be expecting to get into power.
Which leaves us pretty stuck. I haven't looked at any of their policies, so they may be promising to change stuff, but ultimately things will stay the same. Hopefully the country will stabilise at least.
From what I can tell, we are heading for a recession - well we are already in one, but it is going to worsen. Important government documents are continuously being leaked, or left on the train. A lot of pointless laws are being passed, and a lot of unfair initiatives are being introduced/have been introduced. One example: EMA. Couldn't this be better regulated? It is a great idea, although everyone not on it complains that they don't get paid to go to school. But even so, I have heard countless stories of incredibly rich people that qualify for it because their parents don't earn more than the required amount for some reason. Some loop hole I think. My friend's parents are millionaires. He always has a lot of money. He skips lessons. He then writes on the EMA form that he was ill. Then goes and collects his weekly money. Better regulation is needed here I think.
(EMA is a weekly allowance that students receive if they qualify and go to all their lessons.)
Another thing that was talked about recently was health and safety. This really has gotten out of hand. They would have us all housebound if they could. With the walls padded, and nothing we could injure ourselves on. Teachers no longer do school trips because of the paperwork. A teacher friend of my parents was complaining that her pupils were not allowed to go outside unsupervised. There are no other teachers to help supervise, so her pupils have a worse time, she has more stress. There are so many incidences where health and safety overrules common sense. A child will live if it grazes it's knee. (unless it contracts MRSA or something)
So there are problems everywhere. I just remembered the NHS. That isn't great either is it.
But to be honest the government is probably not doing to badly. The media only reports on the bad things. They blow them up to make them seem worse than they are too. This is why I do not watch the news anymore. It makes me depressed.
Lets just say the government is doing its job, they aren't perfect, but they are probably trying. After all they are under scrutiny from everyone. Besides, few people our going to make the effort to go and change it. We'll all manage. Let the complaining stop. It's not like we are in a dictatorship. Be happy.
This might seem a radical change of heart, but it's only because I remembered how bad the media is. If anyone should be taking stick, it's the news, it's the tabloids. The government is going to try and sort the problems out as best they can. Why doesn't everyone just leave them alone?
Their personal lives at least. I am aware that this is how a democracy works, and the media are important. But is it really necessary to invade their personal lives?
This post has become rather jumbled. Next time I'll post on the media. It won't be all over the place.
Monday 25 August 2008
Sorry about the lack of posts for the last 3 or 4 days, we had family friends over so I didn't really find time to write a blog. We were playing halo 3, a lot. (Not the whole family just my friend and I.)
Hmmm, what to write about?
Ok, I was moved out of my room again, so that my parents could sleep in it, and our guests could sleep in my parent's room. So far in the week we have had the double bed in my room, I have slept on it twice. I guess we don't particularly have anyone else coming for a while though so I'll be able to adjust to it properly now. I thought having me and my friend sleeping in a small study for 3 days would be tough, but luckily the xbox sloved all issues there. Although it did mean we spent considerably more time in the small room than we would have done.
I wish I had something interesting to talk about. Perhaps I should go for something about the world if I can't think of anything next time.
Hmmm, what to write about?
Ok, I was moved out of my room again, so that my parents could sleep in it, and our guests could sleep in my parent's room. So far in the week we have had the double bed in my room, I have slept on it twice. I guess we don't particularly have anyone else coming for a while though so I'll be able to adjust to it properly now. I thought having me and my friend sleeping in a small study for 3 days would be tough, but luckily the xbox sloved all issues there. Although it did mean we spent considerably more time in the small room than we would have done.
I wish I had something interesting to talk about. Perhaps I should go for something about the world if I can't think of anything next time.
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Cookie
Ok so cookie, my cat, is back again tonight. She has clawed her way through a fair amount of the seal on my window. This annoyed me. I went over and tried to push her off the ledge. She came back - but only because the ledge is about a metre wide due to the large hedge next to it. So then I had a wonderful wonderful idea. I have many cacti on my indoor window ledge. Now I have one cactus on my outdoor window ledge. Not only does it block the way, but its kinda spikey. Since putting it there the meowing and clawing have stopped. I just hope it doesn't die in the cold of night.
So to anyone having trouble with cats coming in through windows - or trying to do so. Put a cactus in the way. Works a treat.
So to anyone having trouble with cats coming in through windows - or trying to do so. Put a cactus in the way. Works a treat.
Afternoon nap.
So last night I went to another party. It was awesome. It shall be nice to have a small break from parties for a while, they can't be that great for me.
Now I thought I got a pretty good amount of sleep last night - about 7 hours. Which is good for a party. But then I came home did some stuff and then fell asleep for about 3 and a half hours. Maybe the sleep last night wasn't that great then. It was quite the hard floor, and I'm aching still now. Although I think that is from the internal injury sustained on the trampoline. I landed in a bad way and now a muscle like my diaphragm is aching when I breathe.
But still, good party.
So anyway, I thought I'd write about afternoon sleep, as that was the title of this post.
Afternoon sleep is a curious thing. Espescially when it is for about 2 hours or over. You wake up either feeling worse, or feeling better, depending on whether you got enough to make your body normal again. Because I got so much I felt better. The other thing is that they aren't common. At least not in my life. I'll have a good long afternoon sleep maybe 3 or 4 times a year? I think it's less, but with all these parties it seems to be increasing. I remember I used to only have to do them after a D of E expedition. Although that was more going to bed at 4 in the afternoon, and then not waking up till the next day, and still that wouldn't be enough sleep.
Normally I get really annoyted when I wake up and its 8 o' clock. When I have lost a large chunk of my day. But today I didn't mind. I was sort of just chilling. It is probly down to the fact that I have been on holiday for 2 months and have just over a month to go though. My life is not so time pressured with college work. In fact it isn't pressured with any work. Which is nice. But I can't get used to it.
Now I thought I got a pretty good amount of sleep last night - about 7 hours. Which is good for a party. But then I came home did some stuff and then fell asleep for about 3 and a half hours. Maybe the sleep last night wasn't that great then. It was quite the hard floor, and I'm aching still now. Although I think that is from the internal injury sustained on the trampoline. I landed in a bad way and now a muscle like my diaphragm is aching when I breathe.
But still, good party.
So anyway, I thought I'd write about afternoon sleep, as that was the title of this post.
Afternoon sleep is a curious thing. Espescially when it is for about 2 hours or over. You wake up either feeling worse, or feeling better, depending on whether you got enough to make your body normal again. Because I got so much I felt better. The other thing is that they aren't common. At least not in my life. I'll have a good long afternoon sleep maybe 3 or 4 times a year? I think it's less, but with all these parties it seems to be increasing. I remember I used to only have to do them after a D of E expedition. Although that was more going to bed at 4 in the afternoon, and then not waking up till the next day, and still that wouldn't be enough sleep.
Normally I get really annoyted when I wake up and its 8 o' clock. When I have lost a large chunk of my day. But today I didn't mind. I was sort of just chilling. It is probly down to the fact that I have been on holiday for 2 months and have just over a month to go though. My life is not so time pressured with college work. In fact it isn't pressured with any work. Which is nice. But I can't get used to it.
Tuesday 19 August 2008
lovefilm
I just rang up lovefilm.com and cancelled my account. I didn't quite understand how it took them a whole 5 minutes to do it though. I also think their customer services is in India. It was quite funny when I was on the phone to them because in the background I could hear the other conversations going on. 'Hello welcome to lovefilm customer services, how may I help you? ...Yes I can help you with cancelling your account...' There was no way that wasn't in an indian call centre, I could just about understand what I was being told. I have no problems with these such call centres, just as long as I can understand what they are telling me. The woman I spoke to had quite a heavy accent.
Spelling out my post code back to me wasn't as simple as it should have been, but I survived, and lovefilm is a great service.
They do a 14 day free trial, where you can sign up to one of their monthly subscription services to receive a certain number of DVDs or Games. I went for the cheapest and got 2 DVDs within a few days of each other, and it was all really simple and easy to do. If I wasn't going to uni and had an income I'd consider doing it. I suppose they can afford to do the trial because you have to ring up an indian call centre to cancel your account. Either that or get a service which is so easy to use for about £4 a month (or more depending on which subscription you opt for). I'm sure they get a reasonable number of people that stay on. Considering how much advertising they do on the internet it wouldn't suprise me if they are raking it in. I got referred there by a freebie site.
Anyway its pretty cool, so if you feel like doing it I'd recommend. But make sure you cancel your account after receiving your DVDs.
Oh yeah and since I've just advertised lovefilm for no reason, join by completing an offer through my freebies site :p
http://sports.freebiejeebies.co.uk/3347
Spelling out my post code back to me wasn't as simple as it should have been, but I survived, and lovefilm is a great service.
They do a 14 day free trial, where you can sign up to one of their monthly subscription services to receive a certain number of DVDs or Games. I went for the cheapest and got 2 DVDs within a few days of each other, and it was all really simple and easy to do. If I wasn't going to uni and had an income I'd consider doing it. I suppose they can afford to do the trial because you have to ring up an indian call centre to cancel your account. Either that or get a service which is so easy to use for about £4 a month (or more depending on which subscription you opt for). I'm sure they get a reasonable number of people that stay on. Considering how much advertising they do on the internet it wouldn't suprise me if they are raking it in. I got referred there by a freebie site.
Anyway its pretty cool, so if you feel like doing it I'd recommend. But make sure you cancel your account after receiving your DVDs.
Oh yeah and since I've just advertised lovefilm for no reason, join by completing an offer through my freebies site :p
http://sports.freebiejeebies.co.uk/3347
When a Cat wants to come in...
Ok so don't try pushing a cat backwards through an open bedroom window. It doesn't work, they just run back in before you can close it again. I sort of had a fight with my cat cookie, trying to prevent entry. In the end I let her in and threw her out at the front door. We have no cat flap. They poo in the kitchen under the oven.
ps I live in a bungalow, so my bedroom window has a big bush next to it, so falling would not have been fatal.
pps cookie is back, clawing at the now closed window. It's windy outside, you are an animal with a thick coat. Deal with it. (and don't break the window)
ps I live in a bungalow, so my bedroom window has a big bush next to it, so falling would not have been fatal.
pps cookie is back, clawing at the now closed window. It's windy outside, you are an animal with a thick coat. Deal with it. (and don't break the window)
Happenings
So why haven't I posted for 10 days? Well its because I have been knackered. Hmmm what was I doing ten days ago? Well I don't think I was doing much. I know a long run put me out for a few days. Then last Thursday I got my A level results, and as far as I'm aware I've been partying ever since and sleeping in between. Partying is a loose word to use there, but I was out with friends.
My A levels were good. I got 4 A's in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and German. Although I still cannot believe I got an A in further maths. It is epically hard, and I started revising for the last and hardest module, FP3 about 2 and a half days before the exam. After 22 hours of revision I somehow managed to go from a U to an A, and even get an A in the exam. Now that's what I call cramming. Physics and straight Maths were fine, but I got B's in all my German modules. Now I'm not sure how good the B's were but I ended up with a fairly comfortable A, 11 marks over the boundary. I must have dropped around 20 marks below the A grade throughout then, because I was about 30 up last year. So yeah, I was ecstatic.
We went to the pub, and then I got into a friend's car and went where the flow took me. Apart from not being fed dinner this was a great idea. We went more pubs and stuff. I could tell you everything but I'm tired and you don't even care. Basically there were parties, and I got little sleep. Yet here I am now writing this blog. To be fair I got 12 hours sleep last night.
If anyone was reading my other blogs you will know of my Warhammer exploits. Here is an update. I had a few things on ebay, and this really nice guy who lives nearby saw them. He asked me if he could buy both, and I had a lengthy conversation with him about the rest of my stuff. So at about 10am today, he left me with £56.50 and 3 tanks, whilst he left with the rest of my collection. I was most happy with this, since it saved me the hassle of having to put it all on ebay, and I get the dosh straight away. So yeah... and I haven't spent it already...
What else has been happening? Well, lots. My mind is busy. We had some friends down from cambridge who I only saw a bit of because I was out all the time, but they were cool. My room had been redecorated by myself and mother, double bed arrived. I get to spend my first night on it tonight.
My parents went to scotland for 5 days. I would have been alone at home if it weren't for good old skype, and a certain someone who kept me company.
So basically a load of interesting stuff happened. If you are lucky I will elaborate soon in the future. My time that was being spent painting warhammer can be spent blogging.
Sorry about the wait if anyone cared, but I'm back now :p
and if anyone cares my cat is trying to claw her way in through my window. What a naughty girl. Shut up cookie!
My A levels were good. I got 4 A's in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and German. Although I still cannot believe I got an A in further maths. It is epically hard, and I started revising for the last and hardest module, FP3 about 2 and a half days before the exam. After 22 hours of revision I somehow managed to go from a U to an A, and even get an A in the exam. Now that's what I call cramming. Physics and straight Maths were fine, but I got B's in all my German modules. Now I'm not sure how good the B's were but I ended up with a fairly comfortable A, 11 marks over the boundary. I must have dropped around 20 marks below the A grade throughout then, because I was about 30 up last year. So yeah, I was ecstatic.
We went to the pub, and then I got into a friend's car and went where the flow took me. Apart from not being fed dinner this was a great idea. We went more pubs and stuff. I could tell you everything but I'm tired and you don't even care. Basically there were parties, and I got little sleep. Yet here I am now writing this blog. To be fair I got 12 hours sleep last night.
If anyone was reading my other blogs you will know of my Warhammer exploits. Here is an update. I had a few things on ebay, and this really nice guy who lives nearby saw them. He asked me if he could buy both, and I had a lengthy conversation with him about the rest of my stuff. So at about 10am today, he left me with £56.50 and 3 tanks, whilst he left with the rest of my collection. I was most happy with this, since it saved me the hassle of having to put it all on ebay, and I get the dosh straight away. So yeah... and I haven't spent it already...
What else has been happening? Well, lots. My mind is busy. We had some friends down from cambridge who I only saw a bit of because I was out all the time, but they were cool. My room had been redecorated by myself and mother, double bed arrived. I get to spend my first night on it tonight.
My parents went to scotland for 5 days. I would have been alone at home if it weren't for good old skype, and a certain someone who kept me company.
So basically a load of interesting stuff happened. If you are lucky I will elaborate soon in the future. My time that was being spent painting warhammer can be spent blogging.
Sorry about the wait if anyone cared, but I'm back now :p
and if anyone cares my cat is trying to claw her way in through my window. What a naughty girl. Shut up cookie!
Monday 18 August 2008
Dan's Life has moved.
Ok so it has only moved in the virtual realm, but here it is. This is for reasons known to only some, and others may guess. But you can access all the old stuff at darnip.wordpress.com and all the new stuff will be on here from now on. I hope you like it. I couldn't get a cool picture into my header in a nice way though so it is a bit bland for now.
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