The first week of the year had its ups and downs. A couple of spreadsheet bugs costs a lot of cash in the trading arena. But other people were off the ball as well, so I managed to finish the week with a modest profit. By Friday I was pretty knackered, and was therefore happy enough when my buddies decided to pop round for some live poker, rather than requiring me to go somewhere in a vain attempt to be sociable.
The two features of the game where a couple of complete crazies. When two players are calling big bets with high card Jacks, it's hard to keep a straight face. I can't believe they managed to scare me off when I had two pair on a 3 heart flop. Oh well. You live and learn.
It was also my birthday last week. I've finally hit the age of 20 and have departed my teens. Hopefully I'll stop getting ID'd when buying lottery tickets. Tonight I'm off to a Morocan place in Balham called Dish Dash. I think there will be 17 of us so it should be nice, though I may be required to go to that hole know as "The Swan" afterwards.
My New Years Resolution is to be more dedicated to my websites. I made some good cash in the first half of 2006, and managed to easily buy a 40" LCD TV with the profits. Unfortunately the second half of the year was less spectacular. I've just paid £58 to renew my years' hosting blapper.com, and need to make sure I get value out of it.
The main site,
www.blapper.com, will probably make enough to cover costs if I leave it alone. But that's hardly impressive. The other sites, such as
rants.blapper.com are having trouble even getting indexed by google. Not sure why. As the rants forum is full of original content, while blapper.com has a lot of affiliate pages mixed in with the original stuff.
Anyway, the plan for the next couple of weeks will be to log IRC channels and upload them onto the Community site...