JOE BLOGS TRADER

5 February 2008

Not much to report on the gambling front but the gambler has nothing to read so lets blog :)

I backed NZ to win against England and lost that one but not a big loss. I cant stand the english cricket team. theyre the most unpredictable, uncompetitive, lazy bunch of professional drunks Ive ever seen. Whenever I back them they get trounced and whenever I lay them they turn up and play. The talent's there but they only ever seem to perform when they feel like it. Maybe it's when theyre not hungover. I feel they need a stronger management team behind them.

The one and only. Dusty Springfield is now the new favourite which is bad news for my punts on cher, linonel richie et al. To be honest, i caught a little bit of saturdays show but apart from that i only watched the first round. i still dont think dusty will win though so im going to sit tight on that one. even if it is an annoying red.

ROI manager. This market has basically driven everyone who has had a wager on it round the bend. Yesterday we had George Graham come in from 1000 to 20's. I dont know why. Not many people on the betfair forum seem to have a clue either. Now im small red on trappatoni and davies but green on venables and sanchez. so heres hoping el tel gets it. I can see him getting it.

Aside from gambling Ive just booked a short break to Florence. Should be good. Flights with BA and 3 nights in a 4* hotel for £174. Pretty good value. I booked it through www.opodo.co.uk . I find these and www.Expedia.co.uk are the best for cheap breaks.

Also, try this http://www.speedtest.net/. It measures the speed of your internet so you can see whether you are actually getting what your provider says you are. Quite good.

So this will be a new part of the blog, where I am going to put up a link or two of websites that I find quite useful.

1 Feb 2008

sLast night wasnt so good. Played poker for 5 hours straight. Far too long and ended up losing about £40. 3 big bad beats did not start the session off on the best foot and I should have stopped there. Still, it will have increased my rakeback dramatically and that will be coming into the account today. If you play poker and still dont have an account click on the link to the right >>>>> You get money back for every pot you play.

The work lunch went worse than expected yesterday. Im not a fan of pizza express anyway. The pizzas are small, bare and over priced. A small beer was £3.75 and a normal sized one was £5.75. But the worst thing of all has to be the pathetic blunt knives they give you to cut the pizza with. By the time you have managed to cut the thing into manageable slices, youre arm ligaments are strained from the exertion and youre already 15 minutes in. What would be nice is if they actually gave you a proper knife, you know the type with serrated edges and not one that would have trouble slicing into a chunk of microwaved butter. The service was alright but that makes a change. Every other time Ive been, the service has been appalling. So why do I go there I hear you cry? I don't. I try my very upmost to avoid the place but it seems to be the place of choice for everyone I have ever worked with. I think I would go as far as to say it is the worst chain restuarant in the United Kingdom. A real foodies knightmare and a haven for people with the blandest and most unimaginative of pallets. I cannot think of anything more boring than going to this joint for a tiny slab of thin crispy dough with an ungenerous sprinkling of dull topping. The only seafood topping on the entire menu were anchovies and these appeared only on two pizzas. The chef is probably a retired accountant. The only, one good thing about pizza express is that they keep the kids and food bores away from the good restaurants/ pubs.

After the meal was over, some bright spark suggested that since it was my boss's birthday we should pay for her meal. What a joke. I have never been in a job before where I have had to buy lunch for my boss (who by the way earns probably three times my wage). If Id known Id be paying for it I would not have ordered the garlic bread and two beers. In fact I probably would have feigned illness.

I am sick of working. Well to re phrase that I am sick of working for someone else, for not very much money. Get up early, go home late. At the beck and call of your boss and always bored.

Its about time some changes were made so this year Im going to try and think my way out. Thomas Edison said that the best way to have a good idea is to think of lots of ideas. Therefore I'm going to try and think of 10 ideas a day. And here is my first idea. A new strategy of trading I have been looking at and a part time job I can do from home. Also, any other ways I can earn a bit of a cash. The goal? Earn enough money, about £30k to get on the property ladder. Do it up. Sell it on. Move on to the next. Its about the bigger picture. Its about quality of life. If that doesnt work I'll think of another way. Perseverance is the name of the game. There's a wealth of opportunites out there and this is 2008, anything's possible.