No point beating about the bust, this week as been bloody wonderful ! Firstly there’s the poker: from Monday 7^th to today ive had a $10,000 upswing. Based on the number of hands ive played im pretty happy with the figures. To add to this there seems to have been an influx of shall we say less experienced players, with one or two of them returning nice wins due to a number of world class river hits, I got the feeling there going to be sticking around for the Christmas period, bless them all!!! The real world as been a pretty enjoyable place to live this week also, this weekend I celebrated my 37^th birthday (I know, I look a good 10 years younger). For gifts I received everything a man could want: Aftershave, a cook book, money and errrr my daughter insisting that she takes me to watch Oldham Ath v Exeter City on MY birthday Saturday afternoon……………………..doesn’t get much better than that! The tics did win though and my daughter got to witness her father slightly over celebrate both goals which needless to say has brought nothing but shame on the family. To round things off on Sunday we had a family meal at one of the very few very good restaurants in the Manchester area as we celebrated my mums 60^th birthday at Nutters restaurant, basically not possible to get beef cooked any better on this earth! So all in all a bloody good week. Even in this week of highs there was still a slight plip, im currently having the garage converted into a office as I need to vacate the room upstairs in preparation for the new born next year.  Saturday morning and the builders knock my Sky dish. For the past 48 hours I have had no TV signal. This may not sound much, but I promise you it is! Its like the old saying “you don’t know what you’ve got till its gone”! There was though an upside to this as I treated the family to the best DVD in our house: Portuguese pokermillion 2005………………..its a classic!!!!!