On the road again
Just can't wait to get on the road again...
Tomorrow morning: Dublin - London
Tomorrow afternoon: London - Toronto
Tomorrow evening: Toronto - Las Vegas
OH YEAH!!!!!
Four nights in Vegas, then back to Montreal for a wedding. I'll need a holiday when I get home...
Credit crunch? Bah. Impending potential redundancy? Pshaw.
Eat, drink and be merry. Until Tuesday 19th anyway.
Friday 8 May 2009
Saturday 14 March 2009
Future?
My posting history on this blog makes it plain that I'm not a "writer" - I simply don't have that need to sit and commit words to a virtual page. I regularly think of stories, and often have them in my head ready to be scribbled down, but they never get there. I tell myself "One day..."
I don't know when I'll next update this dusty corner of cyberspace, but until then, here are phrases that make me shiver. Don't ask me why, but they do. Some are possible mis-quotes...
"Rage against the dying of the light"
Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night
Does anything express better the crankiness of age?
"For the glass of the years is brittle wherein we gaze for a span;
A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which is man."
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hymn to Proserpine
A bitter but interesting outlook on life
"Won't you help me sing
These songs of freedom"
Bob Marley
Redemption Song
Who could resist that, not just as a call to thought, but as a sublime piece of music?
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
W.B. Yeats
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
....
Finally, and to me most importantly, because these six words can have an impact on me out of all proportion to their relevance:
"Shine until tomorrow,
Let it be"
The Beatles
Let It be
I don't know when I'll next update this dusty corner of cyberspace, but until then, here are phrases that make me shiver. Don't ask me why, but they do. Some are possible mis-quotes...
"Rage against the dying of the light"
Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night
Does anything express better the crankiness of age?
"For the glass of the years is brittle wherein we gaze for a span;
A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which is man."
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hymn to Proserpine
A bitter but interesting outlook on life
"Won't you help me sing
These songs of freedom"
Bob Marley
Redemption Song
Who could resist that, not just as a call to thought, but as a sublime piece of music?
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
W.B. Yeats
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
....
Finally, and to me most importantly, because these six words can have an impact on me out of all proportion to their relevance:
"Shine until tomorrow,
Let it be"
The Beatles
Let It be
Sunday 14 December 2008
Me no good
I had an excellent night last night, and while unconscious this morning I missed a call from the Madness that is the Imperial Palace on the Saturday night of the WPBT Winter Gathering. Wish I was there...
An email awaited me this morning, telling me my blog doesn't meet the standards required for the Pokerstars blogger competition. My reaction: meh... BFD.
An email awaited me this morning, telling me my blog doesn't meet the standards required for the Pokerstars blogger competition. My reaction: meh... BFD.
Sunday 7 December 2008
No Vegas
It's official - I won't be making it to the City of Blinding Lights for the blogger gathering next weekend. I'd dearly love to be there, but finances & leave simply don't add up.
I'm sure it'll be a blast, as always, and would ask you all to raise a glass in this direction at least once over the weekend...
I'm sure it'll be a blast, as always, and would ask you all to raise a glass in this direction at least once over the weekend...
Sunday 17 August 2008
What's going on?
What's going on? Lots of things, and not a lot.
The lots of things are in Real Life, involving work, travel and generally enjoying myself.
They also involve cricket, where until the Irish summer intervened, I was building a good umpiring season, with a lot of top-level games, and enjoying myself.
The "not-a-lot" is in poker, where I've played about 10 live hands in the last 6 months, and only dip in & out of the online world now & again. It's not that I no longer enjoy the game, but with time crunches (not to mention this credit-crunch thing that's all over the news) and other things going on, I'm going through a "meh" phase. I don't believe I'm alone in this...
I've a lot of travelling coming up, starting this Wednesday when we decamp to Montreal for a family wedding. The weekend will be spent in the mountains at the ceremony & after-party, and I have to say I cannot wait for this - it's a long time since all that side of the family were together, and while we'll hate the sight of each other by Monday, we'll have fun over the weekend.
Tuesday will see myself & herself in New York for a few days, and I fly back to Dublin on the Thursday. I then have 7 days to organise myself for a trip to the South of France for some volunteer work, which will be as tough as always, but I'm looking forward to it.
What all this travelling means, though, is that Vegas in December is in extreme doubt. I'd like to go, but financial reasons, among a host of others, may make it imprudent. We'll see...
The lots of things are in Real Life, involving work, travel and generally enjoying myself.
They also involve cricket, where until the Irish summer intervened, I was building a good umpiring season, with a lot of top-level games, and enjoying myself.
The "not-a-lot" is in poker, where I've played about 10 live hands in the last 6 months, and only dip in & out of the online world now & again. It's not that I no longer enjoy the game, but with time crunches (not to mention this credit-crunch thing that's all over the news) and other things going on, I'm going through a "meh" phase. I don't believe I'm alone in this...
I've a lot of travelling coming up, starting this Wednesday when we decamp to Montreal for a family wedding. The weekend will be spent in the mountains at the ceremony & after-party, and I have to say I cannot wait for this - it's a long time since all that side of the family were together, and while we'll hate the sight of each other by Monday, we'll have fun over the weekend.
Tuesday will see myself & herself in New York for a few days, and I fly back to Dublin on the Thursday. I then have 7 days to organise myself for a trip to the South of France for some volunteer work, which will be as tough as always, but I'm looking forward to it.
What all this travelling means, though, is that Vegas in December is in extreme doubt. I'd like to go, but financial reasons, among a host of others, may make it imprudent. We'll see...
Wednesday 7 May 2008
Update
An update on my previous post.
My car's been recovered, & I'm awaiting an insurance company decision on what happens to it. Apparently it's not too badly damaged, so I'm hopeful of getting it back soon.
My brother's car is still missing, and as it's his livelihood, he's in more trouble than me.
The other things that were taken - cameras, mobile phones, laptops - are replaceable, and while I've absolutely no expectation of retrieving them, the insurance company appears to be playing ball, so no major worries in that area.
So there's just the anger and general pissed-off-edness to sort out now.
Soon, I hope.
PS - Thank you to all who commented, emailed or texted with kind words & support, it's really appreciated.
My car's been recovered, & I'm awaiting an insurance company decision on what happens to it. Apparently it's not too badly damaged, so I'm hopeful of getting it back soon.
My brother's car is still missing, and as it's his livelihood, he's in more trouble than me.
The other things that were taken - cameras, mobile phones, laptops - are replaceable, and while I've absolutely no expectation of retrieving them, the insurance company appears to be playing ball, so no major worries in that area.
So there's just the anger and general pissed-off-edness to sort out now.
Soon, I hope.
PS - Thank you to all who commented, emailed or texted with kind words & support, it's really appreciated.
Thursday 1 May 2008
Violation
I awoke this morning to discover my front & back doors wide open.
My car was missing.
My brother's car was missing.
Several mobile phones were missing.
My digital cameras were missing.
Burglars. Bastards.
I should look on the bright side. I'm alive & unhurt, So are my brother & his girlfriend. Nobody is dead, and we have insurance.
But someone has been in my house without my permission. While I was asleep.
I don't think sleep is an option tonight. I may never sleep again.
My car was missing.
My brother's car was missing.
Several mobile phones were missing.
My digital cameras were missing.
Burglars. Bastards.
I should look on the bright side. I'm alive & unhurt, So are my brother & his girlfriend. Nobody is dead, and we have insurance.
But someone has been in my house without my permission. While I was asleep.
I don't think sleep is an option tonight. I may never sleep again.
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