So the great news is that the menage a un DVD is now available, just in time for Christmas if you order it pretty damn fast. You can get it from
the go faster stripe website. It's the perfect Christmas gift for someone who is quite broadminded and likes me. So that's you, right? Buy it for yourself! And get one for a friend while you're at it!
Many of you are concerned about my central heating, so just to let you know that it's all working fine. I am glad you care so much. And sure you had visions of this old man freezing to death over Christmas. But I am here for one more year at least. It's a bit too warm if anything. Be careful what you wish for!
The Christmas festivities are getting too much for me already. It was the annual Christmas meet up of my University friends last night and we feasted on Guinness and steak and stilton pies and whisky in a rather charming little pub just off Oxford St. Tonight was my Christmas poker tourney and though I stayed off the booze until I was at the final table, I still managed to overindulge a little. Thankfully the evening progressed smoothly and I was not hit
with a single badmington racquet and I managed a respectable third place, winning a bit of cash, after expertly playing an AQ, with a flop of QQsomething and an ace on the river, almost wiping out an until then dominant Grub Smith. Will he ever beat me at anything? No of course he won't. Because I am best.
I messed up one big hand later or otherwise I would have done better, which is why you shouldn't drink when you play poker. But it was a most enjoyable evening. Two nights in a row with my great friends. It's something I have been missing out on recently, due to the large number of gigs I've been doing.
But as always by this point in December I am fed up of drinking - with another party tomorrow night and Friday to come and I am seriously thinking of abstaining for a decent period of time. We'll see, but it's going to be a dry January at least. In fact I am considering experimenting by living 2008 as a monk (well all but the believing in God bit, which seems incidental) and living on top of a pole away from all the temptations of the modern world. This might be a bit extreme, but at this time of year I always wonder whether it would be possible for me to give up drinking for a whole year, just to see what happened. But as you know, by about March at the latest I get bored and the whole dizzying merry-go-round starts again. But now I am 40 maybe it's time to give it a proper go. Well we'll see. We all know what's going to happen. Though I wonder if there's a book in it. And you also know that if something's about work I can achieve all kinds of nonsense.
Anyway there will be time to think about that after another two weeks of obliteration.
Stop reading this. Go and buy my DVD. It's after midday, I am going to make myself a drink.
