Monthly Archives: April 2009

Goal 42 – gentle giants.

I was up before the sun rose again this morning, and prepared for an early pick up to go on a whaleshark tour. A couple of weeks ago I had emailed all of the whaleshark tour operators in Exmouth, explaining what I am doing, and that one of my goals is to see a big […]

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WA State Finals.

This morning was another beautiful sunny Perth Sunday as I rode the motorbike down the freeway, and along the riverfront to Tompkins Reserve Recreation Centre, which was to be the host venue for the Western Australia Poker State Finals. I played again last night at the Osborne Park Hotel, one week after beginning my poker […]

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Poker face!

After my initial, somewhat less than successful foray into the world of poker playing on Saturday evening, I decided I needed to get a bit of practice in, and enrolled online for a bit of free-play Texas Hold ‘Em. I also hot-footed down to the local video store where I rented “World Series Of Poker” […]

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Aerobatics.

Back in July last year, just after the “ALife4Sale” auction had completed, my next door neighbour, Fiona, mentioned that she knew a doctor at work who regularly went flying, and had offered to take me up for a flight, if I would like to. Of course I would! I got in touch with Rob, and […]

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Anyone for online poker?

Oh dear! My poker career is hardly off to a flying start! And considering the fact that my goal is to enter a high-stakes poker game, I am a little worried, to say the least. I had been told that the the pub just down the road has a regular poker tournament on a Saturday […]

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Dreaming difficulties….

I am currently working on my goal of learning how to lucid dream (more info here), and promised to provide an update on how I am progressing. I had hoped to have been able to report complete success by now, and am afraid I am unable to do so yet, but I have made some […]

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Skydiving goals proving to be elusive!

Easter weekend seemed like an ideal time to go and try to achieve a skydiving goal, but I hadn’t taken into account the fact that the dropzone out at York had organised a big weekend event covering the whole four days, and people had arrived from all over the country to jump there. The place […]

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