Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[mondatoo]

Why wouldn't u just have a lil bit of efing on your fork

YUM YUM

[faireycakes]

best one has to be the one with the bit of spanish flair, Get in there.

[Rod Paradise]

Thanks for the photo links Bongo - some wonderful & some disturbing images there.

[tikay]

I think I posted the same thing last year but here's Boston.com's 2009 in Photos (part 1):

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_1_of_3.html

Some aren't work safe etc

Part 2 is here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_2_of_3.html

Part 3:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_3_of_3.html

Oooh!

Thanks Bongo. I've got a heavy day ahead, so I'm gonna save looking at these until I'm done, that'll give me a treat to look forward to.

Always eat the peas first, & the potatoes last.

Hope you are well.

Meat last surely?

Certainly not.

In a normal roast dinner, the squence should be....

Peas, Yorkshire Pud, Meat, Tats.

What would an unnormal roast dinner be?

One with greens, brussels, carrots & that sort of poo.

I've had some day today, a right woozer - maybe I'll Update about it later.

[tikay]

I think I posted the same thing last year but here's Boston.com's 2009 in Photos (part 1):

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_1_of_3.html

Some aren't work safe etc

Part 2 is here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_2_of_3.html

Part 3:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_3_of_3.html

Simply stunning Bongo - thank you.

[lazaroonie]

I think I posted the same thing last year but here's Boston.com's 2009 in Photos (part 1):

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_1_of_3.html

Some aren't work safe etc

Part 2 is here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_2_of_3.html

Part 3:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_3_of_3.html

Simply stunning Bongo - thank you.

nice photo of juarez in mexico, a place i need to visit (not thru choice) next year at some point. apparantly the place is bonkers with shootings in the street (drug related) a daily occurance.

[Rod Paradise]

I think I posted the same thing last year but here's Boston.com's 2009 in Photos (part 1):

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_1_of_3.html

Some aren't work safe etc

Part 2 is here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_2_of_3.html

Part 3:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_3_of_3.html

Simply stunning Bongo - thank you.

nice photo of juarez in mexico, a place i need to visit (not thru choice) next year at some point. apparantly the place is bonkers with shootings in the street (drug related) a daily occurance.

Good side - you've been going to the gym so present a smaller target.

Bad side - you've been going to the gym & broke your ankle so present a slower target.

 

[Rod Paradise]

I think I posted the same thing last year but here's Boston.com's 2009 in Photos (part 1):

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_1_of_3.html

Some aren't work safe etc

Part 2 is here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_2_of_3.html

Part 3:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_3_of_3.html

Simply stunning Bongo - thank you.

Someone else sent me a link to the Life Magazine version of this - a few feature in both (naturally) - but there's still plenty worth looking at.
http://www.life.com/search/?q0=Pictures+of+the+Year&x=36&y=11

[kinboshi]

I was at the Natural History Museum yesterday (fantastic place), and visited the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition.  Very much worth a visit, and it's running until April so plenty of time to go if you're interested.

You can view some of the photos online if you can't make it to the actual exhibition:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy/onlineGallery.do

[tikay]

Thank you Rod, Daniel &, again Bongo. Hours of jaw-dropping amazement there. The NHM Galleries were rather poorly presented I thought, (though quite splendid photos) but all three Galleries were magnificent, & will remain etched in my mind forever. I spent 4 hours perusing them - 4 hours well spent.

I really need to move onto another chapter in my life, I'm messing around in the poker business (& loving my work) but there is so much more to life, & at my age, it's criminal to waste time on triviliaties. I think I need to draw up a schedule, & decide when the time is right to get on with life outside poker. I'm incredibly satisfied & happy with my roles at SP, I love every single minute, (balanced by the living nightmare that is blonde) but I'm not getting any younger.

Talking of trivia, there seemed, to my mind, to be an abnormally large number of photographs of bullfighters in those galleries. Why so? Is it suddenly popular again? And do we all share the same view that I do when the Matador gets pinned by the bull - "YES!" - ?

The photo of the hawk killing the hare was the best of the wildlife ones, I thought. I skipped the Celeb section of the "Life" photos, can't be arsed to even look.

But it's the poverty, the war, the floods, forest fires, & deprivation that really pains to see.

I don't begrudge poker players their fun, not at all, but when they start bleating on about a "bad-beat", I feel like stuffing those photos in their faces, to show them what life is like the other side of the street.

Yes, it's morning, & I'm Mr Grumpy.

[remf]

Hello Tikay,i dropped you a line many weeks ago when i had just started reading your diary,i was off work with at the time (croydon quarry) and i wanted to say a big thank you now i have finally caught up to page 1100!! Its been an absolutely terrific read and has given me many hours of pleasure,i really like the sense of humour and general outlook on life from everyone who has contributed to it and long may it continue,thanks again and Merry Christmas Blonde.

[kinboshi]

Tikay, I'd definitely recommend going to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.  The photos online don't really do it justice at all.  The exhibition is very well presented, and it also helped having a professional photographer as company when I went round it as it helped me appreciate the photography even more.

[tikay]

Hello Tikay,i dropped you a line many weeks ago when i had just started reading your diary,i was off work with at the time (croydon quarry) and i wanted to say a big thank you now i have finally caught up to page 1100!! Its been an absolutely terrific read and has given me many hours of pleasure,i really like the sense of humour and general outlook on life from everyone who has contributed to it and long may it continue,thanks again and Merry Christmas Blonde.

Yes - I remember - & thank you for your kind words. There are some extremely clever & humorous writers on blonde, & many of them, like me, like to slip little bits of code into Posts, & see if anyone spots them. The knuckleheads are never able to detect them, so we are safe!

Croydon Quarry indeed. i've spent a lot of time in Quarries, (mostly in Derbyshire & Lancashire) & I adore them - such exciting places.

We did the Civil Engineering stuff - crushers, conveyor bases, silo bases, hoppers, storage bays, tunnels, all good RC work.

In Lancashire, at a weird place called Blubberhouses (it's true, look it up), for a Company with the fairly unusual name of The Blubberhouses Silica Sand Co Ltd, we built an entire Silica Sand processing plant.

Some local farmer turned out to have his farm sitting on the largest silica sand deposits in Europe. Silica sand is used to make glass, & St Helens, not far away, is a huge glass-making town. Hence, bingo! for Farmer Lucky Mc Lucky.

It took 2 years to build, cost £4,000,000 - but there was a "little" snag - water. Or lack of it. It was high up on the Pennines, & it was not possible to get sufficient water, at the right pressure, right up there. So not a single lorry load of silica sand ever left that plant, & to this day, I assume, the quarry remains there, dormant & unused.

The Main Contractor for the Project was a good personal friend of mine, from Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, his name was Ian Wildgoose. "Wildgoose" is an amazingly common name in that part of Derbyshire, Heaven knows why, but there are hundreds of "Wildgoose's" in Matlock & around.

[tikay]

Tikay, I'd definitely recommend going to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.  The photos online don't really do it justice at all.  The exhibition is very well presented, and it also helped having a professional photographer as company when I went round it as it helped me appreciate the photography even more.

Thanks Daniel, I'l try & catch that.

I spend hours surfing for Wildlife pics - particularly birds - & search You Tube frequently for wildlife stuff.

Have you ever considered the complexity & wonder of a bird's wing structure? Beyond comprehension. If you watch a sparrowhawk "on the hover", there must be a thousand minute adjustements, as they fettle their wings to hover "just so".

So much in the animal & bird kingdoms to admire.

I rang a friend of mine the other day, & I could tell he was out in open countryside, I could hear the birdsong. "What you doing?" I enquired. "Admiring some cattle" he replied. It tickled me for a thousand reasons, & I was insanely jealous. Only he & I know why, though.

It's all there to see if you do but look.

[GreekStein]

I spend hours surfing for pics - particularly birds - & search You Porn frequently for wild stuff.

You didn't whoosh me that time. For once I uncovered the true meaning.

We know where you're coming from Chicken Tikay Massala - we're all the same.