A Year To Forget???

Today I have been indoors all day and have used the time to 'take stock'....... I have thought about where I was last year at this time and where I am now and it's not good reading folks....... 

It has been a year where most of my goals & dreams have remained untouched, unmet & pushed back. I have not been as successful as I wanted to be at work (sorry Boss!). Poker has been shockingly bad and I have not played any of the events that I wanted to play this year, My favourite club, The International closed down whilst I was away in Vegas, during the summer and I have properly fallen out with one of my best friends (you know who you are), but I will fix it...... Promise! My health has been on a perpetual down swing and to top it off, I am just about to lose a long standing bet with another friend and I am abso gutted about that.....! 

Anyway, I want this to be positive or at least be able to take some positives from it! I am counting down the days, hours, minutes & seconds to 2013. I know, I know, there are still 71 days of the year to go but I have to be realistic..... I am going to spend this time preparing to hit 2013 with a massive uppercut. I will have a massive upswing in 2013. My life has been in 10 year cycles and the last perfect year was 2003 (who remembers?!) and I will have that again! 

A happy me in 2003..... Sigh!

I am not going to wait for New Years to make resolutions.... I am going to start now. For me 2012 is already fading into history & 2013 is starting early! So Happy New Year everyone! 

The Journey

Hi All,

I know, I know...! I was meant to be a better blogger this year and yet this is only my second blog post so far? Sorry!

I am out & about on 'walkabout' at the moment and I thought I should give you all an update on what's been happening so here it is. I am in Austin, Texas at the moment. I am here for work attending HITEC 2011. It is a show that I attend every year and those of you that know me also know that I always go to Vegas afterwards! Yep, I'll be winging my way on American Airlines First Class from Austin to Vegas on Friday for some WSOP madness! Can you tell I am excited?!



Airport Traffic Jam!



Anyway back to the present; I flew BA out of the newly opened LHR T5C on Saturday, it was quite nice actually..... It looked new & smelt new. So there I was sitting on my first flight of the day from London to Chicago and some bright spark decides to shut one of the runways which means a 1 hour delay in London.

When we did make it into the air, the flight was pretty uneventful. I watch three movies but don't even remember what they were! I forgot to get duty free fags too! Oh dear, I'm getting old! I got to Chicago and managed to squeeze a quick cigarette in before making my connecting flight to the 100+ degree f, Austin, where we ended up taking off late, quelle surprise!



Ballers get there!



I got to the hotel and after more than 30 mins & talk of booking me out to another hotel; I finally got keys to my room at the InterContinental Stephen F. Austin hotel. Yep, I did get an upgrade! OiOiOiOiOiOiOi!!! Why can't I get that on planes?!?!

Anyway, I was going to carry on with what has happened since I arrived here but I don't want to bore you any more than I have already & this is kind of a natural place to stop (how else am I going to increase my blog count?!). So I have changed the title to The Journey & I will be writing a few more blogs in the next few weeks but until then, be good!