EPT Berlin and holiday

I’m on a plane. I’ve been on a plane a lot this year. I can remember being younger and getting super excited going anywhere on a plane now it’s become almost routine. Still get childishly excited by watching the movies – every movie is about 30% better than it actually is when you’re flying.
Just done EPT Berlin – as I’m sure you all know (given the world wide news coverage) it wasn’t a standard poker tournament as some armed robbers decided to try and freeroll it. I think I’ve filed the experience under ‘interesting’ and ‘different’. It was scary for a bout two minutes and then it was interesting!

Two things struck me about it. The first is when it happened live on air and people were running, the set fell down and the camera went wobbly. People where guessing what it was –some thought a fight, some a protest of some kind…All that happened in my head was that it was definitely a monster and it would be emerging from the set tossing tables aside like matchsticks. Little bit worried about myself sometimes….
The second thing is that I found the final table poker – which was truly excellent – much more exciting than the robbery. Again little bit worried about myself.

I’m off on holiday to see Kara and Brian and hang out. I’m not supposed to do any work. I haven’t been on a pure holiday for 18 months although I’ve done things like Vegas trips which are a combination of “work” (heavy quote marks) and holiday so I’m not complaining.

Just noting that I don’t often completely switch off from whatever work projects are going on. I think it comes from working for myself and trying to do things and make things happen I’m passionate about.. Part of the reason I used to get so excited going on planes years ago is that I was escaping work that I didn’t want to do; I don’t have that feeling any more. It’s kind of nice to be honest and I feel very lucky.

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