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A Fish and his Chips
« on: January 10, 2011, 17:22:26 PM »
Hello.

You might recognise me from other well known APAT threads such as Chips Accrued, Luky and Chip build a bankroll or the APAT Advent Calendar trilogy.

I"ve been thinking about doing an APAT Blog/Diary thingy for a while, and have had the title in mind for ages, so the start of a new year, seems as good a time as any to give it a go.

I have an opinion on most things (nothing too extreme), although tend to not share those thoughts on public forums as you usually just get flamed or get into a ridicuous argument that neither side will ever let go.

I"m hoping this will be a cross between Chips Accrued and A Grumpy Middle Aged Man.  I might well whinge a bit (okay, likely to be a lot, in fact we might need to set aside a number of pages for the current economic situation alone), but this might be a good place to vent those frustrations and enter into some sensible discussions.

It"s going to be open topics, but I am also planning on documenting my poker this year.  I let myself down big style last year, by not playing nearly enough live events, lots of reasons why (we can go into those later), but I"m going to make up for it this year.

Loads planned for 2011 already, poker and non-poker related.

Feel free to ask anything along the way, I might just give you an answer other than, soon.   ;)
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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2011, 17:23:27 PM »

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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2011, 17:33:20 PM »
Wii another thread set to notify  ;D

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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2011, 17:36:53 PM »
One final point on the illness thing.  Jen unfortunately picked up the same thing the following week and came out with the best line to cheer me up.

"I really don"t know how you managed to make it to work last week if you had the same as I"ve got now."

Man Flu, pah.  Don"t do sick days, which being self employed is a good thing, as don"t work, don"t get paid.

Anyway, I digress.  Jen did the sensible thing and after a week or so, phoned NHS Direct as she was worried that this bunged upness wasn"t clearing up.  The line of questioning went something like this :-

Q: How long have you felt like this ?
A: About ten days

Q: What do you do for a living ?
A: I"m an Accountant

Q: Have you taken cocaine recently ?
A: Have I what ?  No I have not.

Glad to see how easily you"re tarred with the same brush when being a young professional.

Apparantely around 85% of young professionals (Accountants, lawyers, etc) have dabbled with drugs at some point, mainly down to the stresses of their job and their significant incomes.  WTF ?

I don"t believe that figure.  The closest I"ve got lately is Beechams Flu Capsules.   ;D

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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2011, 17:41:51 PM »
This has started off with a few spitfuls of tea flying around LMAO

I look forward to seeing how this pans out

You"ve set a high std early doors Leigh

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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2011, 17:47:33 PM »
Excellent. Can we do a juggling prop bet please :)

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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2011, 17:50:37 PM »

Excellent. Can we do a juggling prop bet please :)


Six posts in, and I"m being hijacked by juggling boy.   ;D

Not sure I will have time to fit in learning to juggle in 2011, what with all the other stuff I"ve got to juggle in my life.

I"ll get my coat    ::)

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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2011, 17:53:42 PM »


Excellent. Can we do a juggling prop bet please :)


Six posts in, and I"m being hijacked by juggling boy.   ;D

Not sure I will have time to fit in learning to juggle in 2011, what with all the other stuff I"ve got to juggle in my life.

I"ll get my coat    ::)


Well if you don"t want me hijacking your thread then post on mine, preferably with a contribution to the free drinks and/or charity donation.

and for anyone else who wants to chip in please see here

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=7756.0

;D

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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2011, 18:07:45 PM »
I"ll play it safe and match whatever Des is offering.   ;D

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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2011, 18:10:27 PM »

I"ll play it safe and match whatever Des is offering.   ;D


Sian might object to that one!  ;D
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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2011, 18:18:35 PM »
A good bit of news today regarding the UK Team event in Bolton.

I"d made a decision a while ago that those players in the team from last year wouldn"t get the chance to defend the title.  I just felt it was wrong to make it a closed shop for selection, and everyone should be entitled to have a chance at playing.

What made it even worse was that the guy that top scored for us, Wayne Parker, was the only one not snapped up by a team for this years event.  Got a pm from Paulie though, sorting that one out, so good luck to the seven of you this year.

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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2011, 18:34:51 PM »
Excellent news.

Hopefully at least one of us can not have 2 trophys.  ;)

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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2011, 18:39:09 PM »

Excellent news.

Hopefully at least one of us can not have 2 trophys.  ;)


Now all I have to do is sort the APAT Champions team out.  I"m nearly there.   8)

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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2011, 18:41:59 PM »
Actually, seems a good time to post this.  My proudest poker achievement.



At this point I realised I manage people better than I play poker.   ;D

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Re: A Fish and his Chips
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2011, 18:43:07 PM »
Ha Ha.

I see Mr Dawson is reading this.


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