Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Busy weekend ahead. I set off at 9am for Cornwall, by car ffs, as I need to be able to get back "just so". TomTom will guide me safely no doubt.

We (the Poker Week Crew) are staying at the Gwealdues Hotel near Penzance, & Des Wilson is picking us up at 5.30pm for an evening's Poker with the Cornwall Poker Boys. Saturday morning, we go to Des's cottage to film an Interview, then I gotta dash back to Feltham for the Sky Show on Saturday night. One of these days I'll learn to organise my Diary properly, but I enjoy the "work", & one has to take it while it lasts, you never know what tomorrow may bring. Sky Poker request my "availability" each month, 2 months in advance, but Poker week has a shorter lead-time, so clashes happen now & then. But thanks to co-operation from both, (thanks, Natalie & Steve) I've just about got away with it without letting anyone down so far.

And Sunday I'm going down to Cardiff for their rather excellent £250 Freeze, my excuse being making sure everything is lined up ready for next weekend's bB5.

Monday I think I'll sleep all day, but I fancy popping down to Brighton for a few days next week (no work next week) to play their excellent Fessie - the first Fessie I've played in months, but I will miss the Main Event, as it's bB5. A few quiet weeks follow, glory be, then it's the big APAT jobbie at Walsall, & a few weeks later, it gets busy again, with Waterford, & The Virgin Jobbie at The Broadway. Whatever shall I do with all those free weekends? Hopefully, get to play some proper poker, I've barely played Fessie Poker this year. Of course, having a few quiet weeks, & being insecure, I''ll be worrying, "wot, no work?". There's no pleasing some folks.

[tikay]

Apparently I'm out of the Top 5 in the Poker Pages Pro-Rank 2, hardly surprising given I'ver barely played a fessie this year.

I owe that information, just conveyed to me in a 4am 'phone call, to the Cretin Formerly Known As Flushy. Who might just wander down to Cardiff next weekend.......And if he does, there's a £100 Heads Up Clash of The Choppers in store. He's all mine, I promise.

[tikay]

Our Police are just wonderful.

We were filming in Hyde Park on Sunday, we had our Official Permit, all clean & paid for, & everything was tickety-boo. We planned to film a sequence in a rowing boat on the Serpentine, & we were about to hoist anchor when the Chief Boating Officer ( I kid you not, that's his title) says "you can't film on the water, in a boat, unless you pay for a special permit".

"How much?" says Rhowena.

"£500" says CBO.

"Sod that" says wormster, quite right too.

So we go film in the park, on deckchairs. Two Police Officers are ambling along, hands behind backs, whistling, & they spot us. And they come running - running I tell ya - across to us. "Have you got Permits?" say they, as scores of weed-smoking skateboarder itinerants are whizzing past, running over old ladies & looking daggers at any mere mortal who thinks a footpath is for walking on.

Think I'd better go to bed, I'm grumpy-ish.

[RED-DOG]

Was a good Meeting. Had myself a new anal orifice ripped, was told I have the business acumen of next door's tortoise, & that I'm a piece of shit because I try to be nice to people.

And to think I was going to let you work all the hours God sends, for no pay, to build my business up from nothing into into a valuable commodity that I could be proud of.... Well you can forget that now Buster!

[M3boy]

Tony, the volume on my Tom Tom is accessed by pressing the screen at the bottom (where all the info about time is). This then brings up a volume slider.

Also, there is a nice little speed camera file that you can put on the Tom Tom that tells you what the speed camera is (ie mobile, fixed, average speed, the speed limit AND where temp camera's usually are - the police with hand helds etc...)

This site really is a must for Sat Nav owners : http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/

[RED-DOG]

Or you can tap "Settings" (Spanner icon) and "Turn off volume" (Speaker icon)


BTW Paul, if I put the SD card from my sat-nav into the card-reader on my lappy, can I upload that info onto it?

[M3boy]

Should be able to Tom, yes.

Easier to just connect the sat nav to your lappy though

[tikay]

Overlaid BADLY.

Grumpy Factor - 9.7.

[Laxie]

Awwwwww...cheer up pet!  Just think...this time next week, you'll be beating the women (and all their hugs) off with a stick. 

[Dingdell]

NEVER put your home address into a sat nav and call it home. When they nick your car and sat nav they normally also have your car keys too and head straight from home where they burgle you as well and take everything you own.

All while you're buying dog food in Tescos for a dog that licks a welcome to the burglars then goes and sits in his basket like a good boy.......they leave the dog.   

[celtic]

Apparently I'm out of the Top 5 in the Poker Pages Pro-Rank 2, hardly surprising given I'ver barely played a fessie this year.

I owe that information, just conveyed to me in a 4am 'phone call, to the Cretin Formerly Known As Flushy. Who might just wander down to Cardiff next weekend.......And if he does, there's a £100 Heads Up Clash of The Choppers in store. He's all mine, I promise.

Early betting on the big clash..... 7/1 flushy     7/1 tikay     1/10 the chop

[RichEO]

NEVER put your home address into a sat nav and call it home. When they nick your car and sat nav they normally also have your car keys too and head straight from home where they burgle you as well and take everything you own.

All while you're buying dog food in Tescos for a dog that licks a welcome to the burglars then goes and sits in his basket like a good boy.......they leave the dog.   

Arriving at my house with my car they stole earlier...    I'll leave home in thanks.

[M3boy]

My Sat Nav does not quite find my home anyway . New House you see

[kinboshi]

NEVER put your home address into a sat nav and call it home. When they nick your car and sat nav they normally also have your car keys too and head straight from home where they burgle you as well and take everything you own.

A valid point.  You know where you live, so probably best to put in a location 400 yards or so away from your home (assuming you live in a residential area) that is on your normal route home.  You should know your way back from there .

[Claw75]

NEVER put your home address into a sat nav and call it home. When they nick your car and sat nav they normally also have your car keys too and head straight from home where they burgle you as well and take everything you own.

A valid point.  You know where you live, so probably best to put in a location 400 yards or so away from your home (assuming you live in a residential area) that is on your normal route home.  You should know your way back from there .

yeah - stick in the address of that really annoying neighbour.