Can't believe that 2011 is almost over already.
I'm trying to recall what I did this year (currently reading about about memory, will get to that later) and it looks like I had a fairly mellow year.

Didn't travel that much and only a couple of short trips (bahama's, ski-holiday, bike to berlin). So what have I been doing with the extra time I've had back home. Well it turns out not much, watched an awful lot of tvshows, played some games and have gotten into reading books. Halfway through the year I thought about quitting poker but looks like I'm not ready to give it up yet. It just gives so much freedom almost no other job can give.

I've always been fairly lazy about playing poker and putting in volume and am great at making plans to improve it but suck at following through with it.
For 2012 I'm already making lots of plans and am trying to find ways to force myself to keep them. It will most likely involve lots of (penalty-)bets. However I also hope to finally sell the house so I can travel more again.




I've started playing some StarCraft2 but I suck horribly at it sofar, probably because I've not played it that much yet and suck at using hotkeys. I like 2v2 the most sofar but can't play more then 2-3 games in a row without getting enough of it. It is weird because I enjoy watching matches of other players possibly more then playing myself. Then again I also enjoy watching Curtains video's about chess despite not having played more then 10 games in my entire life. If you want to play vs me sent me a PM with your SC2 info to add, but like I said I'm still absolutely terrible.



In other news, the weightloss is going terrible, mostly because I wasn't really that motivated to lose weight and combine that with me re-injuring my foot it just wasn't happening. I started to enjoy going on some walks listening to audiobooks (just started in Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series), however the weather has gone to shit so much I don't really wanna go out much at the moment. Will be alot better when I get to a warmer country. I also suck at eating healthy because I just like to snack alot and eat unhealthy dinners to much. I also have trouble coming up with healthy things to eat that I really like so maybe I'll have to force myself to eat things for a while to enjoy them.



One of the things I currently absolutely don't want to eat is fish, the smell of it makes me nauseous and the taste much more. But if you eat it daily for a couple of weeks you should start to like it (or least that's what I've been told), so I'm deciding if I want to learn to eat fish because I do feel that I'm missing out on alot of good food by not liking fish. If anybody has advice/tips for me on this let me know.



Like I said earlier I've been reading alot more then I used to (well in highschool I didn't read anything so not hard to start reading more than that). Because there are just so many books in the world nowadays if I don't like a book after 50 pages I will simply just quit it while before I made myself finish them and this system works really well for me. The last couple of books that I read and really enjoyed:
- The Name of the Wind & The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (can't wait for the 3rd part), they are fantasy books but the writing style is so amazing that I just couldn't put them down (read the first book in 18 hours straight until I finished at 8 in the morning).
- The Lost City of Z , if you like reading about explorers you'll enjoy this book because it covers how the amazon was explored and contact was made with the tribes and what kind of hell living in the amazon is. It made me not wanna go to the amazon because I'm not a fan of bugs and well the amazon is a bug-infested place.

The book I'm currently reading is:


Sofar I'm really liking it (am about halfway through), my memory for this is terrible and this gives some interesting ideas on how to improve it. It also gives a decent amount of backstory on memory-competitions and the usage of memory before books could be used as an aid.


The last couple of night I've had kindof a crazy sleep schedule, the last 3 days I've had 6 blocks of sleep consisting of 2-6 hours per block. Not really a big fan of this yet, I feel a little bit more tired then usual (but all hours combined I've slept about 6 hours less then I normally would in those 3 days). So I will try to go back to just 'normal' hours.



I think I've covered most of the things I wanted to blog about but since my memory is not yet trained some things might have slipped, only time will tell.
Robin out