Long week

It always seems like the week when you are getting paid is a really long week. Fortunately today is pay day baby yeah!
Anyway, last weekend was really cool - Vicky was over from France and we had a barbeque on Saturday night. This ended up in a drunken dance off using the good old dance mats which havent seen much action since we moved house. We even ended up having two people on a mat at a time which was interesting. I got some pictures so watch out for those :-)
I should be jetting off to Stockholm next month for some training which rocks big time. Work is going pretty well at the moment so I'm pretty happy about that.
We should be having a poker night tomorrow night (if enough people come) so I'm looking forward to that - we havent played in ages and its always fun.
Anyway, work is calling so I'll speak again soon.
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Online poker

so tonight I finally signed up for online poker and tried it out. Reece has been using Ladbrokes poker for a while so I knew it would be safe and he does occasionally mention that he wins a bit of money on there.
After an evening of playing I can safely say that my account is closed and will never be reopened.
Fortunately this isnt because I lost an absolute fortune - I know how much I can spend and I wouldnt be silly enough to think that throwing money at something would guarantee success. However, I did end up losing almost constantly all evening, occasionally winning a hand to bring myself up a little bit but ultimately losing anyway.
I really did not enjoy myself - its one thing to have some beers with some friends and lose a few quid (or win a few) but there is no satisfaction at all to be taken from losing at online poker. I guess if you are winning then it is slightly better but its not like playing against your mates - it seemed like I couldnt do a thing right. I could have just been unlucky but the result is still the same.
A few examples of my bad luck tonight are these:
1. I get a pair of twos. Not much chance of winning with that so when someone raises, I fold. On the flop comes another two. I would have won.
2. I get a 3 and a 4. Someone raises, I fold, on the flop comes another 3 and 4. I would have won.
3. I get a 2 and 3. Someone raises, I fold, on the flop comes 4, 5 and 6. I would have won.
4. I get a pair of aces. I play conservatively to make everyone think I have a bad hand and dont raise but everyone folds anyway.
Couple that with the fact that I got a Jack with low-card about 50% of my hands (I noticed the pattern emerging when I realised that a Jack with a low-card is chuffing useless) and I had a really frustrating night.

So the moral of the story is - stick with Roulette. At least you know the odds with Roulette and we all know my theories on that ;-)

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Website update

So I've finally got round to uploading a bit of a backlog of pictures. Time restraints mean that I've had to bundle them all onto one page rather than seperating them out as I would have liked so I think there's over 150 photos on there...
By way of explanation of what some of them are:
The first few pictures are the morning before leaving for amsterdam/the holiday in amsterdam. I didnt take that many pictures this time but theres a few there.
The next ones are of Anya playing in the garden or should I say digging up the garden.
After that there is a night out for Olly's birthday (although there are no actual pictures of Olly) - Steven was over with Laura so most of the pictures are of them or of me and Laura.
The next big batch are of our holiday in Jura. We start with my birthday (and my cool birthday cake), move to the beach, the pub and the cottage and then I take you on my travels into a little-known bay behind the cottage we stayed in. I really like that bay - you get the impression that only a handful of people have ever been there and its a really nice little place. It's a nightmare to actually get to and I dont think my photos really do the journey justice but if you look at photo DSCF0747.JPG and you see those rocks in the top left hand corner (which look a bit too green to be rocks), that is where I am stood from DSCF0752 to DSCF0757. DSCF0758 is a picture of those rocks close up just before I climbed on top of them. After that I spotted a heard of cows (althogh only 2 were cows - the rest were calves (or calfs???)) and they didnt look impressed when I went in for a closer look. I was a little concerned that they might charge me to protect their young but I braved on and got some close up pics of them.
The last four pics are of Anya asleep in our living room - she just got tired, curled up into a ball and fell asleep :-)
At the bottom of that page there are also some movie clips that I shot with my digital camera. They aren't the best quality ever but they aren't very big so they shouldnt take too long to download and watch.

Moving on, there have been a few comments on my forum about the whole weight loss thing. Basically neither of us have actually done any weight loss yet really so we still havent kicked off the forfeits. There's a week and a half til the next deadline so watch this space for more updates.

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ahem

Ah yes, I knew I was forgetting something.
I'd like to say that I've been really busy and thats why I haven't posted but I think I've just been forgetting. Right now I am busy so I can't really post but I'll do my best to update in the next few days.
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Postarama

Hi everyone, sorry its been so long since I posted. I guess you're probably getting used to it by now. The bad news is that there was no weigh in on Sunday - we agreed that after going on holiday and not really watching what we ate that it was probably a bad idea so we will carry it over until the next two week period is done with.
Our holiday in Scotland was really good - very relaxing and we had glorious sunshine all the time we were there. Dad was on top form and had Laura in fits of laughter several times, going on about small loaves of bread walking around with baby breads and coming out with the immortal line that big rocks dont do much because they are "stone deaf". I guess you had to be there but it was seriously funny at the time.
My birthday was fun - Laura got me a fantastic cake which had Yoda sat on top (made from icing) which I will post some pics of as soon as I get round to it as well as all the other pics from the holiday.
There was a slight down point on Saturday night when we were supposed to be going out for Laura's birthday and every single one of her friends cancelled but we made up for it on Sunday and Monday, going out for a meal on Sunday and having a BBQ on Monday which was great fun.
That pretty much brings me up to date. I was supposed to be going on a course this week but it has been put back to next month so I'm clear of courses now for about a month which will hopefully give me a little bit of a breather where I can get back on top of my finances.
Oh and I got two new board games for my birthday from my brothers - I got Frag! which is a first person shooter on a board which has been very fun to play so far and I got the expansion to the Warcraft board game which we havent got round to playing yet but which I am very much looking forward to.
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