Obsessive and slightly random thoughts

[KarmaDope]

What"s that you say?

Wembley?

ISPT?

APAT?

See you there

[Laxie]

Have fun updating!  

[Swinebag]

Have fun updating!  

+1

just lose the "mateyboy" for unknowns please

PS - you and Tighty are doing a great job

[PHIL_TC]

What"s that you say?

Wembley?

ISPT?

APAT?

See you there

Important questions

Is there any beer?
How much is the beer?
Is there any Guiness?

Hearing its 25 quid for burger and chips? fearing for my beer roll x

[KarmaDope]

Have fun updating!  

+1

just lose the "mateyboy" for unknowns please

PS - you and Tighty are doing a great job

The "mateyboy" is something of an institution in a blonde update going back to the times when we didn"t have player lists lol...would never use it on any other site, it"s just blonde tradition!

Phil - there is beer. Being a non drinker I don"t know how much but I think someone said yesterday it was £4 per pint. Ouch. I didn"t see Guinness.

[PHIL_TC]

Phil - there is beer. Being a non drinker I don"t know how much but I think someone said yesterday it was £4 per pint. Ouch. I didn"t see Guinness.

Ouch and double ouch!

See you soon fella nice job on the updates yesterday x

[KarmaDope]

Bumped so I can do a proper post tonight (in work currently)...

To be told:

• Story of ISPT
  
• Work
  
• Cricket
  
• Saturday just gone
  
• Download Festival
  
  This is going to be a monster...

[amcgrath1uk]

Bumped so I can do a proper post tonight (in work currently)...

To be told:

• Story of ISPT
  
• Work
  
• Cricket
  
• Saturday just gone
  
• Download Festival
  
  This is going to be a monster...
  

waits patiently...

[KarmaDope]

Gimme a chance - I just got home...

[duke3016]

[KarmaDope]

Sooooooo....

• Story of ISPT
  
  When DTD announced that they were getting involved with the ISPT, I was worried and yet elated, worried that this would cost a shedload of cash for DTD but elated because there was always a chance that I could be at Wembley. I knew I couldnt play the event because I had to work and couldnt take the days off for it, but after checking with work I knew I could have a long weekend. I saw Tighty at the Worlds in March and he asked me if I could update it, assuming he got confirmation from DTD that it would be updated.
  
  Needless to say he got confirmation, I snapped his hand off and I was off to Wembley!
  
  Managed to get half of Thursday off so I could travel down the night before and stopped off in Northampton cos it was cheaper This was helped when I decided to go to the local casino and somehow chop the comp for £150 - I guess JP was right for once when he said it was easy there! Survived on limited sleep and was up at 8am Friday morning for the continuation of the trip to Wembley.
  
  Got to Wembley and OMG what a place. Even now, thinking back, I"m still in shock at how it was played. Throughout the 3 days I had times where I would just stand at the entrance to one of the bubbles and slowly look around in awe, it was Wembley and I was stood on the pitch! However, there was one part of it I didn"t like...92 fecking steps. Every time I went to type an update it was 92 fecking steps up, then 92 fecking steps back down, then 92 fecking steps up...you get the jist.
  
  Either way, it was an experience I absolutely loved and it has refuelled my love of updating. Roll on WSOP 2013! (As if I"d ever be allowed to do that...)

[KarmaDope]

• Saturday just gone
  
  Asa and I were supposed to be playing cricket on Saturday but on a day where the British & Irish Lions did the job, the mercury was pushing 80 degrees and there was Formula 1 racing on, shockingly both opposition teams were unable to field a side! So with 50 points in the bag, we ended up in the pub by the train station railing the Lions to history. Once this had finished, I had my bag with all my cricket gear in so went back to mine, picked the wife up and the plan was for Asa to head home and Joobs & I were going to head into town or New Brighton dependent on her thoughts.
  
  Next thing I know, all 3 of us are headed to New Brighton to play Crazy Golf! Thought it would be fun to persuade Ger, Carl and Michelle to come out and they met us in New Brighton for the obligatory lovely pub lunch (which was actually quite cheap) before heading over to the Crazy Golf arena. It was more mini golf than crazy golf though, with every hole based on famous holes from famous golf courses. I was winning at halfway but it ended up with Carl winning and Joobs coming last (although she really didnt give a crap lol). Then it was "sit and go?" Why not?
  
  End up with Asa, Joobs, Michelle and I all crammed in the back seat of Ger"s car to head back to Ger"s for poker and food. That hurt, 4 grown human beings should never ever do that. Ever Got to Ger"s and set up for a ROE £10 sng, after Ger and I had stopped off at Sainsbury"s to pick up beer, coke, pepsi, beer and chocolate, oh and a barbecue & marshmallows for Joobs! Ger & Michelle set up to play the APAT online and our sng at the same time - with Michelle running like Usain Bolt in the first one and chopping with Carl. We started another one and Matt Bird joined us, I ended up chopping that one with Matt as it was 2am and we just couldnt find a winner. Joobs had fallen asleep by that point!
  
  Great night, great friends, great fun...so Ger, when"s the next Chezger game?!?!

[KarmaDope]

Will continue this tomorrow, as I need sleep!

[KarmaDope]

• Work
  
  Writing this in work - which is a rarity for me!
  
  I work as a contractor in Projects, providing Office Administration/Co-ordination support and/or management (of the office, not people thankfully) and the project I"m currently working on is a multi-million pound project within the NHS, where we have basically replaced all the paper casenotes with computerised casenotes in a hospital.
  
  To sum it up, I"m a glorified secretary
  
  Our project "went live" on June 26th, which meant that since the beginning of June, it has been MANIC. Without going into too much detail, we"ve had to outfit all the wards with new computer equipment, which has meant ordering an absolute shedload of the stuff, then building it to our specifications, then actually delivering it. On top of that, we"ve had to finish building the system, prepare for go-live by co-ordinating a Command Centre and then deliver on the Command Centre, where we have had a ridiculous amount of issues come in and resolved them
  
  Needless to say, the Saturday referenced above was my first proper day off since June 9th! This is also the reason I missed Coventry, sadly, because I was really looking forward to it as well! I calculated that since 22nd June as well, I"ve done over 110hrs in 2 weeks...bring on the money (which I"m not going to see).
  
  Just really happy that we went live in the end, it was close but we got there and the feeling of success that we have in our office right now - it"s like winning a bracelet (albeit in Stud or something )

[KarmaDope]

Looking forward to Cardiff - nice way for me to celebrate the end of the Project and therefore end of my contract.

Still coming though - bought my seat and booked my hotel, just need to sort my train tickets out now!