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Went to visit Mad Josie for her birthday this weekend. She lives in Canterbury and is one of the luckiest girls in the world, being happily married to an up and coming MP who supports her while she tries to launch a writing career. We started the evening with a visit to Cafe Rouge. I had the Deep Fried Camembert for starters and Steak Frites for main course. The camebert was great. A nice solid outer layer with melted cheese inside.

After the meal we went to a casino. They didn't have Texas Holdem so I tried the Black Jack card counting system described in Bringing down the house". Unfortunately I have not been practising the skills and found it hard keeping up with the count. Eventually (I think) the count hit 6. So instead of flat betting £2 I bet £10. As expected I got two high cards that totalled 20. Pretty damn good I thought. The dealer had a 7 so I didn't split. However, the dealer somehow managed to hit 21. Nasty. I was pretty pissed off and decided to call it a night. There are easier ways to make money than professional gambling.

This morning I climbed out of bed at some point in the morning, having lost 1 hour due to this silly daylight saving thing. Just lounged around Josie's flat and got whipped by the husband at Streetfighter 2. The old games are often better than the new ones. My bro has Ridge Racer and Perfect Dark for the new xbox 360 but I think they're crap. Afterall, I'm sitting here blogging instead of playing them. Also had a nice chat with Josie to catch up on things. It's nice to see the different perspectives people have in life. Josie wants to have kids, write books and help people (she works part time as a carer). Her husband wants to help people through political work. It makes me feel a bit small to be nothing but a city trader looking to retire by 30. However, there's a ying and yang in all things, and Josie seemed to feel a bit guilty about possibly taking more (finanically) than giving to the country. But in the future this up and coming couple are bound to do lots of good things. As an example, one of her book projects is about a friendship between children of different religions. This could be a big help, considering all the problems in the world today, and is also very brave as a misinterpreted phrase could easily lead to unfortunate consequences. Anyway, I don't think either of us should feel too bad about our situations in life. There are plenty of people who really take the piss and make me wonder if the country's generous benefits system do nothing but damage the human gene pool.

Oh dear. Just realised it's Mothers' Day today. I hate all this stupid commercial shit. It's just a desperate attempt by crappy card shops to sell intrinsically worthless pieces of cardboard. Why should a stranger dictate when I'm supposed to be nice to my mother? How many of the lazy cunts have ever bought their mothers a nice car, instead of a pointless card or bouquet of flowers that may smell nice but will be gone in a week? I need to cook dinner now so I'll stop ranting.