2.13.2006

Overall a good weekend

Sometimes the weekend arrives and in all the anxiety to make full use of it nothing really happens. The weekend just passed was not one of those weekends. I think the secret is doing something on friday night. That way when Saturday rolls around you already feel fully immersed in the weekend.

This friday we had another poker night and I'd like to think everyone enjoyed themselves. We played single table tournaments where a £5 buy-in got you 2000 chips, blinds started at 25/50 and went up every 10 minutes. With only the 5 of us playing, the games were played out to a conclusion fairly rapidly and those knocked out early could relax and play a bit of XBOX while they were waiting.

I got myself nicely p1ssed which was great until I had to get up the next morning at 8 to catch a train to Kilmarnock for football. We lost 5-3 and to be honest I must have been still a bit drunk coz I only remember snatches of it. Still I set up 2 goals out of Sharkey's hat-trick so I was pleased with how I played. I'd also won 2 of the poker games on friday so I was up a nice bit of cash too.

Very please with the football results this weekend. Firstly Middlesborough trample all over Chelsea and then Liverpool win and pick up a few points on them too. Then Hearts lose to Aberdeen despite going ahead early in the game. Finally, the game we were all waiting for this weekend: The Bhoys beat Rangers in Ibrox. Zurawski took his only chance to win the game 1-0 and it was a solid if often subdued performance by the Celts. Roy Keane was immense and was definitly man of the match. I couldn't stop laughing after the game when the Setanta sports reporter was talking to Roy Keane and asked him if we was surprised to be picked for the starting line up.

Keane just looked at the guy like he was some kind of moron and answered 'No'.