THE LAST WEEK AND ONWARDS
Wow this is going to be really big TL;DR but meh.
Last Friday I had to take Petra's folks back to Victoria Coach station so they could get their 24 hours coach back to Slovakia (Petra's mum cannot fly due to a balance problem in her ear so this is the only way for them to get to us) so me and Max went on the tube with them into London and having said goodbye and got on the train to come back there was a man with 3 kids a couple of seats away and the kids are running amok up and down the train and people are getting agitated and eventually someone speaks up and ask's him to control his kids but he sat there completely non-compas until someone asked him again to which he replied he was sorry but he had just come straight from the hospital where he had been given some really bad news about his wife. I really felt for the guy but what can you do and this made think how lucky we are sometimes and also how much I miss my Dad and wish he was here to see the kids growing up especially as he would have been a fantastic Grandad.
Sunday bought day 2 of the deepstack and I had qualified for £15 and bought a stack of 61200 (20bbs) so felt obliged to try one merge but that didnt end well having 3bet pre k8ss bet flop and jammed turn on 255 5 to get called and looked up by "The Goulder" J2 so having seen a guy open to 12k at 15/3000 from 140k and I have 88 in the BB I ship very first hand thinking it could be a quick visit but hold vs A10dd on KJ9 74 but having chipped upto 285k I really went for the bubble as the payout is soooo flat but lost vs shorties and ending busting in 48th for a min cash of £300.
Whilst driving up I had read the Racing Post and my only bet of the day was literally ALL IN on Barcelona to beat Valencia last night at 1.61 on the machine with Dubai and my betting accounts at 3/5 and 8/13 so ended up with £900 so to see Barca go 3-0 up was great but then this happened (see full goals) so it was a sweat to the end but had decided to get my betting boots on as it is not often you get that kind of price for Barca and I had it a bit shorter in my eyes.
I regged the Super 50 turbo and ended up busting that in 13th with 8 paid so then decided it was a good enough time to set off home and as I was pretty tired I stopped at Newport Pagnall services for a cat nap and a coffee and set about the rest of the way home and was 15mins from home when just after the Wickford turning on the A127 after going over the brow of a hill I was stopped by an accident that had just happened (was 3 cars back) and within minutes the place was swarming with Ambulance and Police and we were held in our cars for 1 hour before being allowed to turn around and go the wrong way along the dual carriageway to the junction but not before the policeman had told me it was a pedestrian when I asked if it was a motor cycle accident as the was someone on the floor as I got to the scene and I thought wow how sad.
So either someone has tried to cross a dual carriageway at 2.15am and been hit or thrown themselves in front of an oncoming car and I felt really sorry for the driver as what can you do and what would make someone decide that was the way to do it. All pretty sad really!
Whilst sat in the car I started to read a magazine that Petra had left in the car as there was nothing else to read and found this pretty inspiring story of a young girl hit with cancer
http://lauralouiseandhernaughtydisease.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-story.html which again brought it back about my Dad and that he would be proud of some things I had done since he passed and not so proud of others and on my daily drive to work at 8am having got in eventually at 3.45am and Max getting up at 6 I "docked my theoretical cap" to him at his tree on the seafront where we scattered some of his ashes 4 years ago.
The drive this morning was pretty surreal as I was in a philosophical mood about all the people I see on the route to work as I often travel at the same time give or take a couple of minutes along the seafront.
The people I see daily are
2 retired gentlemen who sit having a coffee having cycled from wherever at the same cafe overlooking the see then
A guy who checks all the parking meters on the seafront looking for an odd bit of change someone has left in there, I know he walks the length as I see him somewhere along the 5 mile walk then
A guy on his way to work who always wears the same shirt but different colour
A chap putting out the tables at his seafront cafe to start the day off before I see the
Dog walker with 2 westies and finally the couple walking to work together
I wonder about their lives what they think of me as we often exchange glances and do they think "there is suit guy in his golf on his way to work....
Oh and finally I am selling a package of events on the staking board and there is only 12.5% left so get me while you can
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=62129.0 
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