Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[redsimon]

He was big into Greyhound Racing, too, & I believe he wrote a Column regularly for the Racing Post. A Gala Notts player of Karabiner & myself's acquaintance, whose name I forget, ( he was a Scot) was a rival tipster on what was either the Racing Post, or the grand daddy of racing papers, the Sporting Life, & I think he & Roy fell out rather badly over some professional matter.


Peter Meldrum?
 
 

[tikay]

He was big into Greyhound Racing, too, & I believe he wrote a Column regularly for the Racing Post. A Gala Notts player of Karabiner & myself's acquaintance, whose name I forget, ( he was a Scot) was a rival tipster on what was either the Racing Post, or the grand daddy of racing papers, the Sporting Life, & I think he & Roy fell out rather badly over some professional matter.


Peter Meldrum?
 
 

Back of the net.


I meant to say to you Simon (maybe I already did), Happy Anniversary. Nice recovery, in every sense.

Are you able to go back to work, yet? Do you still have to hook up to the machine?

Generally, is all well now?

I thought you bore up with great fortitude.

We take good health so much for granted, it must be a bugger to be unwell. I've been so lucky in that respect - most of us have - & I'm not sure how I'd cope with bad health.

[wormster]

13st 9lbs, (191.6 lbs). Suggests a 4lb loss on Day One, but obv wrong, & scale variance will even out over coming days & weeks.

Notwithstanding that, started well, & feel good today, after, at last, a great night's unbroken sleep.

Rennie count - Zero

Nurafen count - Zero.

probably an obvious question, but are you weighing yourself at the same time every day? I believe the best time is just after you wake up.

I'm trying to lose weight too. I've been on it for a week now. I feel better, lighter & fitter and I've lost..... ZERO bloody pounds!

I was hoping to get down to 11st from 12st by the end of Jan, I think I may need to lose a limb for that to happen!

Still the sales of lager, curries, chinese, sweets, crisps & sandwiches have gone down in the Teddington area

Yes Steve, first thing every morning, shower, shave, & other sh things, then the weigh-in. It's hard to find scales that are truly consistent though. Does not matter a jot in the long-term though.

You have lost zilch in a week? Wimp! You are not trying. Epic failure.

12st? Eh? You are only 3'-9" tall, man!

What you doing these days? Still the Horse Racing? You still see the geezer that does the Grand National TV coverage - Dave Gertfrund, or whatever? No word from DC, I assume?

We gotta go have that round of golf soon, but I gotta ease into it with Ralphy boy first. I've not held a golf club for 2 years or more. 6 years ago I was a Club Captain. Bizarre.

I may only be 3'9" tall but I'm incredibly wide!

Still working with Racing UK & loving it. Not sure if you mean Dave Gutfreund, the American guy? He was my presenter on the American racing, nothing to do with the Grand National. I saw him briefly in Chicago. He's got himself a girlfriend & a ready made family, 2 smashing boys.  No news from DC

Yes to the golf someday, it the weather ever picks up! I played for the first time in 3 months the other day. I'm supposed to be a 12 handicapper, I played more like a 112!

Hope all is well with you & you've got your house sorted.

[tikay]

Seen in the chat-box tonight, after a shove & an overcall.......

jungle99> tikay was i right to fold AK there?
tikay1> Had we both acted b4 you?
jungle99> yes put 1 of you on a pair an dint wanna risk it
Jamash147> thespians eh?

[tikay]

13st 9lbs, (191.6 lbs). Suggests a 4lb loss on Day One, but obv wrong, & scale variance will even out over coming days & weeks.

Notwithstanding that, started well, & feel good today, after, at last, a great night's unbroken sleep.

Rennie count - Zero

Nurafen count - Zero.

probably an obvious question, but are you weighing yourself at the same time every day? I believe the best time is just after you wake up.

I'm trying to lose weight too. I've been on it for a week now. I feel better, lighter & fitter and I've lost..... ZERO bloody pounds!

I was hoping to get down to 11st from 12st by the end of Jan, I think I may need to lose a limb for that to happen!

Still the sales of lager, curries, chinese, sweets, crisps & sandwiches have gone down in the Teddington area

Yes Steve, first thing every morning, shower, shave, & other sh things, then the weigh-in. It's hard to find scales that are truly consistent though. Does not matter a jot in the long-term though.

You have lost zilch in a week? Wimp! You are not trying. Epic failure.

12st? Eh? You are only 3'-9" tall, man!

What you doing these days? Still the Horse Racing? You still see the geezer that does the Grand National TV coverage - Dave Gertfrund, or whatever? No word from DC, I assume?

We gotta go have that round of golf soon, but I gotta ease into it with Ralphy boy first. I've not held a golf club for 2 years or more. 6 years ago I was a Club Captain. Bizarre.

I may only be 3'9" tall but I'm incredibly wide!

Still working with Racing UK & loving it. Not sure if you mean Dave Gutfreund, the American guy? He was my presenter on the American racing, nothing to do with the Grand National. I saw him briefly in Chicago. He's got himself a girlfriend & a ready made family, 2 smashing boys.  No news from DC

Yes to the golf someday, it the weather ever picks up! I played for the first time in 3 months the other day. I'm supposed to be a 12 handicapper, I played more like a 112!

Hope all is well with you & you've got your house sorted.

Yeah Steve, that's what I said - Dave Gutfreund, American Horse Racing bloke.

Good for him, anyway. Fun guy, fun job, too. Fancy commentating on sport for a living! MBN.

[tikay]

Weight today 13st 6lbs. According to the scales, that is. They seem a bit uppy downy. I take three readings & settle for the average.

"The scales" said I lost 4lb on Day One - ridic - & 7lbs in 5 days is nearly as unlikely, but it matters not over a longer period, & the pattern will soon be clear.

At this stage, 5lbs a week is perfectly standard, modest even, so we'll see.

Been a doddle, too. Soup & salad at lunchtime, plenty of both, & white meat, followed by a huge pack of fresh pineapple, & 300g of fresh grapes in the evening. 2 lattes a day, too.

Feeling better, sleeping better, Nurafen Count, Nil, Rennie Count, nil.

The best bit about dieting is beating the temptation, I love it. Cooked food smells delicious, people walk past with a plate of chips, & the aroma positively hits me. Go into a shop & drool at the sight of pork pies, & sticky buns - but as I leave the Shop, sans both, it gives me aq buzz. Yes, I beat it.

Still very tired, though. The week has been intense, & has alternated between stressful & exciting. It's becoming clear I've bitten off more than I can chew workload-wise, & will have to cut back on some stuff. But what, & how? As much as 18 hours a day, all fun, too, but the backlog pile gets bigger, not smaller.

So many others do so much more, & not fun "work" like mine. How do they do it? I guess being the age I am does not help. Bit of a bugger really, as all my moving parts still seem to function OK, & my mind still works pretty cute. Mostly.

Had to bite three quite tough bullets this week, all quite dificult as they were sort of personal, & I never bottled it, for which I'm quite pleased, in a way. Of the 3, one worked out tickity-boo, the jury remains out on the other two. Really, it matters not. I did & said the right thing, & that's what I take to bed.

Achingly fatigued today, but quite "up.

Show tonight, starts with a pre-record at 7pm, just 30 mins, then rehearsal, then at 9pm, the 4 hour Live Show.

It'll be 2am before I'm back at the Hotel, & tomorrow I gotta go home & sort some stuff, & then head back South. Big big day Monday.

Not seen much on blonde about the floods in Aussie, Sri Lanka, or Brazil.  Maybe it's the wrong place. Been scouring the various world news photo galleries, & there's some stuff which is just awful. We, as a people, & a nation, seem to be so insular. We includes me, too, & soon I need to address my continual nagging conscience.

But first, I have to discuss how to play A-K UTG, & get paid shedloads so to do. What a weird world we live in.

[tikay]

I discovered this week, at the Salad Bar - get that chirp? - salad bar - broad beans & chick peas.

Presumably, folklore will suggest, as they are veg, that they are "good for you". Bollox, of course, but OK, I'll buy it.

I Wiki'd them - add "wiki'd" to "googled" as a new-age verb - & they seem to contain all sorts of goodness & vitamins, & I need those to replace the ones I'm missing from not having Pork Pies any more.

What Wiki appears to emit as to what they contain is methane. Just a bit. Still, I suppose it's a form of exercise, controlling that gentle expulsion of methane in such a way that there are no collateral problems.

[NoflopsHomer]

I discovered this week, at the Salad Bar - get that chirp? - salad bar - broad beans & chick peas.

Presumably, folklore will suggest, as they are veg, that they are "good for you". Bollox, of course, but OK, I'll buy it.

I Wiki'd them - add "wiki'd" to "googled" as a new-age verb - & they seem to contain all sorts of goodness & vitamins, & I need those to replace the ones I'm missing from not having Pork Pies any more.

What Wiki appears to emit as to what they contain is methane. Just a bit. Still, I suppose it's a form of exercise, controlling that gentle expulsion of methane in such a way that there are no collateral problems.

Try quinoa in terms of replacing rice/pasta.

[tikay]

Wikipidea is, I believe, 10 years old today. Well done Jimmy.

He was on the wireless this morning, & he said an interesting thing.

For those in the Third World, Wiki might just be the greatest "invention" ever, as, assuming they get internet access, it is a terrific, absolutely wonderful, educational tool.

It was fashionable to knock Wiki, some still do, & fair do's, it is not aways wholly accurate. But most of it is, most of the time. For some kid in deepest Africa or Asia, they need to know the basics, & for this, it's fine & dandy.

I think - not wholly sure - Wikipidea is run as a charity. Weird to think, if that were true, that the other internet giants google, & Microsoft, are, in a way, the same. Both, directly or indirectly, do so much for free, in Microsoft's case via the Bill & Melinda Foundation, in googles case, be it intentional or not, they make information freely available.

Throw in Warren Buffett's charity contributions - about £60 zillion, net of what he encourages others to give - & really, the world is being given a terrific example by some.

There's good stuff out there if you look for it.

Well played them.

[RED-DOG]

I got "The" word through on Vinny' diary. (He was totally oblivious)

It would never happen here.

[tikay]

I discovered this week, at the Salad Bar - get that chirp? - salad bar - broad beans & chick peas.

Presumably, folklore will suggest, as they are veg, that they are "good for you". Bollox, of course, but OK, I'll buy it.

I Wiki'd them - add "wiki'd" to "googled" as a new-age verb - & they seem to contain all sorts of goodness & vitamins, & I need those to replace the ones I'm missing from not having Pork Pies any more.

What Wiki appears to emit as to what they contain is methane. Just a bit. Still, I suppose it's a form of exercise, controlling that gentle expulsion of methane in such a way that there are no collateral problems.

Try quinoa in terms of replacing rice/pasta.

Because?......

[boldie]

Wikipidea is, I believe, 10 years old today. Well done Jimmy.

He was on the wireless this morning, & he said an interesting thing.

For those in the Third World, Wiki might just be the greatest "invention" ever, as, assuming they get internet access, it is a terrific, absolutely wonderful, educational tool.

the taxman does not agree

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/27/wikipedia_charity_not/

[tikay]

Wikipidea is, I believe, 10 years old today. Well done Jimmy.

He was on the wireless this morning, & he said an interesting thing.

For those in the Third World, Wiki might just be the greatest "invention" ever, as, assuming they get internet access, it is a terrific, absolutely wonderful, educational tool.

the taxman does not agree

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/27/wikipedia_charity_not/

I assume you have quoted the wrong part of my Post there.

Anyway, I enjoyed the thought that it might be. Never mind.

I think it's good to try & put a positive spin on things sometimes, Mr Bold. Do you?

[tikay]

I got "The" word through on Vinny' diary. (He was totally oblivious)

It would never happen here.

I'm an easy whoosh, but I LOVED the one you got past Vinny.

You hid it a treat, too, I had to read the sentence twice, because, somehow, the construction was not "just so".

Fair play to you, too. Sometimes I can't read between the lines, but with you, I had to read between the letters.....It was all there though, in the correct order, too. The clue was in the non-typical construction of the sentence, by your standards.

Well played.

 

[boldie]

Wikipidea is, I believe, 10 years old today. Well done Jimmy.

He was on the wireless this morning, & he said an interesting thing.

For those in the Third World, Wiki might just be the greatest "invention" ever, as, assuming they get internet access, it is a terrific, absolutely wonderful, educational tool.

the taxman does not agree

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/27/wikipedia_charity_not/

I assume you have quoted the wrong part of my Post there.

Anyway, I enjoyed the thought that it might be. Never mind.

I think it's good to try & put a positive spin on things sometimes, Mr Bold. Do you?

Yeah, sorry I did quote the wrong part. I completely agree with you. Wikipedia is a wonderful tool. It's astonishing that such a wealth of information is readily available.
It's a shame they didn't get charity status as I think they are quite right in saying that it's a brillaint educational tool.