Daves Explains: Post Tuetonic German Literature

Free Stuff! (Sort Of)

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:32:15 GMT

So I'm cleaning my room and comming accross loads of stuff that ain't mine. Holla if you want me to post it to you or drop it off at your house or whatever...

Wheeler

Six (6) Shot Glasses

Carmageddon TDR 2000

Far Cry

Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast

Rawson

Star Craft

Dungeon Keeper 2

Time Crisis

Walling

Comical Ali

Jay

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter

I think that's it, as for Walling, give Trainspotting back you sigh!

Kesgrave Park F.C. Annual General Meeting

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:59:11 GMT

Ladies and Gentlemen,

At some point in the near future we need to get together and have an annual general meeting to discuss many issues about the direction of the club. I don't have any venues in mind at the moment but I would like to avoid anywhere too public, if anyone has any ideas please let me know. Please comment to this entry and let me know about you're availability, we want as many people to turn up as possible!

Things on the agenda (so far):

Cost of Equipment
Fundraising
Sponsorship
Colour of Cheap Away Kit
Signing of the Statement of Intent
Etc. Etc.

Yrs,

Dave

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:27:00 GMT

Community Football 5:30 Today!

I've sent round the usual text to people I have numbers for, but if you didn't get it then come on down! And possibly give me your number when you're there.

Chars,

Randy

Kesgrave Park F.C.

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:17:48 GMT

Some information regarding the founding of our football club is available here...

Kesgrave Park F.C. on WideasleepWiki

As always with the wideasleep wiki feel free to add your own information.

Yrs,

Dave

BBQ

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:51:40 GMT

Mr James Keeble Esq. who many of you may know through Hattrick/McDonalds/Football is having a BBQ Sat 29th July from 4pm to 8pm (officially) then a surprise 30th birthday party (which he's not supposed to know about) after that. Currently myself, Chantal, Kent, Laura, Walling, Jay and D are going but I've got two spare tickets to flog (£5 each, all the food you can eat!).

If you would like a ticket please give me a shout, if any more than two would like to come I can always get some more off Keeble.

Text on Ticket (bolded the important stuff):

IT'S TIME FOR A BBQ!
SAT 29th JULY, 4pm TIL 8pm THE ANGEL INN BRAMFORD
£5 A TICKET, ALL FOOD INCLUDED IN THE PRICE
BURGERS, HOT DOGS AND SALAD SUPPLIED BY COX'S MARKET STALL
PROCEEDS GO TO THE STATION HOTEL FC & ST. ELIZABETHS HOSPICE
CHILDREN WELCOME, THERE WILL EVEN BE A BOUNCY CASTLE
TO KEEP THEM ENTERTAINED!
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:30:45 GMT

I'm thinking of starting my own IT Knowlegebase, how's this for a start?

Applies To:
HP Laserjet 6P

Symptoms:
Printer will not print and the error light is flashing. Someone has put a tray of chicken wings ontop of the printer.

Cause:
Chicken wings have obstructed page output causing a paper jam.

Resolution:
Follow these steps:

1. Remove tray of chicken wings.
2. Open toner loading tray and remove toner cartridge.
3. Clear paper jam, replace toner cartridge and close tray.
4. Eat a chicken wing.

Community Football

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:10:53 GMT

Community Football, 3PM

Big turnout please chaps, you're place in the team for the up-comming friendly vs Blooming Fuscias F.C. may depend on it.

Also for the babes, community sun-bathing.

Kesgrave Park F.C. Update

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:25:04 GMT

As you can see from the title of this post we have decided upon a name for our wonderful club. Despite Rawsons insistance on 'The Hurricanes' we have gone with Kesgrave Park F.C. because we play in a park, sort of. Kenny is working on the logo and the website, hopefully we'll be able to have a peak at these soon.

Now we have a team name sorted we can get the bank account set up, I'll put in some cash in personally to get us registered with the FA. After that we shouldn't have any problems getting some sponsorship. Laura's research is really helpful and has given us some good direction and grounding, I've looked at a couple of grant website's Laura found. With one we can get straight grant from £300-£10,000, another will match our sponsorship deal £ for £ (i.e. double our money).

Insurance is another thing I need to look at, Laura printed something off for me but I left it at home. I'll give that a run through later today.

That's all I can think of for now, I'll keep you updated with any more developments.

Cheers,

Dave

Community Football Team Update

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:35:42 GMT

As it turned out it was kit #3 that we have gone with, #1 and #2 got more in the straight vote but everyone seemed to like #3 as their second choice, so we went with that.

The Winning Design

This is pretty much it except the lettering will be in capitals and it will have our sponsor and club logo on the front.

Nearly there people!

Community Football Team Update

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:39:08 GMT

Ok chaps and ladies, the time and place for tonights meeting is...

Farmhouse 8PM, Today

On the agenda,

1. Voting for home shirt out of the possible three designs.
2. Suggesting names for team and voting out of possible names.
3. Finalising names and numbers for shirts.

I've texted everyone that I have numbers in my phone for. If you see this and you havn't received a txt please feel free to come along. Will see you there!

Yrs,

Dave

Community Football Team Update

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:24:49 GMT

I've recieved the second two designs from our kit suppliers. If we could have a meeting about which kit we are going to go for and brainstorm possible team names tommorow that would be great. The Farmhouse would be ok with me but if someone has a quieter and less distracting venue please let me know.

I've found on the Suffolk FA website (somewhere) that the sign up date to enter a league/cup is June of that season, so we don't have to worry about this for a while.

Our tresurer Laura has found out some info about the legal side of what we need to have a joint account, we'll need to both go in with Chrisy D and a couple of other people as we'll need about five signatures to get the "contract of trust" drawn up.

Also we are on the edge of a deal with Kirton Windows, it looks like we'll get £40 so I'll factor this in and give you an update on the shirt price at the meeting tommorow.

Lastly, links for the kit ideas...

Design #1
Design #2
Design #3

Spread the word about tommorow! If you have a better venue than the farmie please let me know.

Cheers!

1st Draft - Community All-Stars F.C. 07-?? Home Kit

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:34:29 GMT

This isn't final, but is what most people at the Farmie seemed to be happy with. We're not certain on the sponsorship yet but it might be Kirton Windows. Where it says "Community All-Stars F.C." we will have a logo, Kent's working on that at the moment. Also I'm not to sure about the font, the player name being 'Randall' not 'RANDALL' or the shade of blue. None of this is too important because we can have as many design inquiries as we like.

1st Draft - Community All-Stars F.C. 07-?? Home Kit

Feel free to leave your opinion.

Community Team Meeting

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:46:06 GMT

Ladies and gentlemen,

I'd like to suggest we meet up at the Farmhouse tonight at 7:30pm to discuss forming the Community Football Team. We'll discuss such issues as team name, colours, sponsorship etc. I'll print off some of the designs from the shirt website and we'll begin to think about a match kit.

Also I spoke to Ozzy in the car about being sponsored by Kirton Windows, all his dad would have to do is beat the Oweyo Sports offer of 10% per shirt (roughly £36 in total if we get 13 shirts) which looks fairly likely. If we got the Oweyo Sports logo on our sleeves then we could save a further 5% per shirt bring in the price down to under £25!

Let me know If you can/not make it, much appreciated.

Yrs,

Dave

IMPORTANT ANNOUCEMENT

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:21:47 GMT

It's not often that I post on this thing, but this definatly warrants it. If you were watching the final at the farmie yesterday you might have been part of a conversation talking about gett ing professional looking community football shirts printed, with 'Community FC' (or something) logo and WideAsleep.Net as a sponsor? Well I've found a great website for doing it.

Designs
Pricing

It'll basically work out at 37.90 Euros per shirt with a 20 Euro shipping fee, numbers and names are free. If we get less than 10 people up for this there will be another 70 Euros on top of that, but seriously, who would not want one? Post if you are up for it, shot-gun a number if you want it desperatly. We can sort out the design etc. at a meeting at the farm house some time.

Anyway, shot gun number 5.

Announcing...

Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:10:57 GMT

randyLANsix

I know this is short notice chaps but that's all the time I've had to plan, mother thinks she can knock the wind out of my pre-meditated sails by declaring that she is going on a short holiday just a day before she does but I'll best her yet!

Anyway the day will be tommorow (told you abouth the short notice) and should last day and night, I will probably be opening for business about 12ish for you early birds but mid-afternoon arivals should be ok. The feature game will be Civilization 4 so I'd firstly like to get the people in who enjoyed the previous titles or would like to give it a shot, after that people who just like the general LAN atmosphere.

The people who I know would be interested in this are (in no particular order)...

1. Me (ob!)
2. Jay
3. James
4. Rawson
5. Walling
6. Rusty
7. Blair (know he likes the game but not sure how hot he is on bringing a machine)

Of course the regulars and guests are always welcome at the randyLAN but keep in mind there won't be too much FPSing this time round, we're breaking the mold here.

I've also got a spare PC that can be used if someone would like to come but doesn't have/can't bring a PC, but it will have to stay upstairs and out of the way as it is the net server.

Last thing I'd like to point out that we can get you the game installed on your machine and it comes with a tutorial that takes rougly an hour, I advise that everyone except Jay and I should give that a whack, it's pretty good as tutorials go.

Regards,
Randy

The Ever Evolving Sign Up List
1. Myself
2. Jay (after work, 5pmish?)
3. Chantal
4. James
5. Rusty (probably)
6. Greeny
7. Laura (guest)
8. Kenno
9. Bev (although has to work from 4-8ish?)
10. Walling (will probably be late)
11. Chris D (guest)

Sadly Cannot Be With Us
1. 19

3rd Great Sessodio Foodstuff Consumption Contest - Tesco Value Plain Chocolate Sprint-Off

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:45:58 GMT

Rules: First person to [b]fully consume[/b] 133g of Tesco Value Plain Chocolate is the winner.

1. I.Rawson
2. D.Randall
3. J.King

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:23:49 GMT

If anyone has any misunderstandings regarding my new job this pretty much sums it up.

"#1: Biff works in the accounting department. He needs to access a file on a shared drive, but he doesn’t have permission to view it. During this process he also develops a boner in his pants. What should Biff do?

A) Load his hacking tools and hack into the drive.
B) Contact IT support for permissions.
C) Sit motionless in his cubicle until the issue resolves itself.
D) Contact IT support about his boner.

The answer is B and D. IT support is the direct point of contact for all issues regarding computer access and mystery boners."

- http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3428

yeh, I've fucked up your designer friends list

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:06:43 GMT

Poker Update

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:57:18 GMT

Okay due to availablity we ahve had a change in the line up of events

16th of July - El Poker Open @ Benidorm!
23rd of July - East Ipswich Series of Poker @ Martlesham Scout Hut
30th of July - The Gentleman's Club Classic @ Justin King's
6th of August - Le Nautical Club De Kesgrave Gran Prix @ Dave Randall's
13th of August - The Martlesham Poker Classic @ Tom Walling's
20th of August - The Paul Davey Poker Party @ James Davey's
27th of August - The Chrisy D Poker Extravaganzer @ Chris Double's
3rd of September - [To Be Announced] @ Ryan Kent's
10th of September - The East Ipswich Poker Tour Championship @ Matthew Osborne's

Entrants so far for the East Ipswich Series of Poker:

1. Dave Randall
2. Tom Walling
3. Justin King
4. Chris Double
5. Chris Shields
6. James Davey
7. Tom Bevan*
8. Ryan Kent
9. Rob Hendy
10. Mark Hulley
11. Matt Osborne
12. Michael Ixer*
13. Will Beale
14. Jack Adams

Dealers:
1. Chantal Harris
2. Laura Jochan
3. Lauren Hunwicks

Also the East Ipswich Series of Poker will probably start soon after 12am.
Thats 12am, Saturday the 23rd of July, Martlesham Scout Hut.

Also a bit of news about El Poker Open in Benidorm. It will probably be a 10 Euro buy-in with a 2 Euro fee. Obviously it's open to all the holiday lads.

One last thing, if you would like to learn poker or specificaly Texas Holdem i'm hosting a free training event next Saturday. So far Chris S. and Jack are comming to that but anymore are welcome, even if you have barely played and would like to get a bit of experience. But no pro's please.

Goodo!
Dave

Presenting the East Ipswich Poker Tour

Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:13:05 GMT

Ladies and Gentlemen, young and old. The Online Net Team presents the East Ipswich Poker Tour (EIPT).

Every saturday from the 9th of July we will be hosting No Limit Holdem Poker Tournamanets at different locations. The buy in for each of these events is £5 making an average prize pool of £50 per event. This prize pool is up for grabs on that day, but there is also a £1 fee ontop which goes into a larger 'Championship Prize Pool' to be won at the Championship event. The Championship Event can only be attended if you have won an EIPT Tour event.

This should be a collection of great tournaments, each location and event will have its own unique flaire, pictures and statistics will be available at www.wideasleep.net/~poker.

So far we have confirmed six events but we would like another two. The final event should be hosted at Ozzy's house/mansion in Kirton, this is yet to be confirmed. If you would like to host one of the two events we are looking for give me a shout and I'll help sort it out.

Event's so far...

9th of July - East Ipswich Series of Poker @ Martlesham Scout Hut
16th of July - El Poker Open @ Benidorm!
23rd of July - The Gentleman's Club Classic @ Justin King's
30th of July - Le Nautical Club De Kesgrave Gran Prix @ Dave Randall's
6th of August - The Martlesham Poker Classic @ Tom Walling's
13th of August - The Paul Davey Poker Party @ James Davey's
20th of August - ???
27th of August - ???
3rd of September - The East Ipswich Poker Tour Championship @ Matthew Osborne's

I'd like to start getting people signed up for the East Ipswich Series of Poker @ Martlesham Scout Hut. The Buy in is £5+1 as usual (£6 total) and we are expecting around 25 people. Play will most likely start around 5pm. If you would like to play contact me by...

email: poker@wideasleep.net
phone: 07749 102747
lj: comment on this post
rl: speak to me in person

Great stuff!
Dave

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:11:18 GMT

Hey everyone, just incase you didn't know I've left uni now. I wanted to change to Business Studies but they wouldn't let me (had ABC and needed ABB) so I've decided to go into IT down here in Ipswich. I've just got a 3 month contract with the NHS here at Ipswich operating their Smart Card registration equipment, this should hopefully give me some experience that I can use to climb the ladder. Garrrr, i start tommorow.

In other news a few of us are planning to move into a new house in 6-12 months time, this should be excellent and lots of fun.

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 12:51:27 GMT

Had a wicked last couple of days, Laura's party was ace as was James' gathering. Cheers goes to both of yas!

Just came 1st in an UP SnG which won me a nice 500pts. Now i've got 622pts that 2400pt UltimateBet hat looks just a few games away!

On the subject of Poker i've had loads of interest in the poker tournament so that'll definatly be going ahead in a few weeks. I want to get a date set before I officially open registration, it'll probably be on a Saturday afternoon/evening after the Gloustershire boys get back.

Also for those of you that use UltimateBet we are going to do the first 'Wideasleep 500 Bonus $ Challenge' in the next few days. The idea being we'll all go in for the same freeroll and see who does the best. More news on that later.

Poker

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:46:15 GMT

Went round walling's yesterday to play some poker with him and James brianhawkins. Walling bested me in the first £1 game, reading me perfectly and calling my Ace high. In the second game I was big stacked after taking alot of chips of him earlier, he was playing very aggresivly and he was quickly chipping me away thanks to the high blinds. In the end though he went all in, I called him shouting "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW POWERFUL I AM" before getting up on the table and urinating in the face. Come to think about it that might not have happend. I can't remember the exact hands but I think I had two overcards and the community cards didn't save him.

So to conclude James pretty much just gave myself and Walling a quid each, cheers James.

We then hooked up with Chantal lackofcontrol69 and went to Tescos to buy Sponge Bob Squarepants, we also saw laura_itfc whch was nice. We proceeded to Burger King where me and the boys put on some potential muscle and finally off to James's to watch the film, I must say it was hilarious (seriously, I don't usually like kids films).

Online poker now, got my 'UltimatePoints' (UP) through today which pushed me over the 100pt mark needed to buy into a UP Sit and Go. I came 3rd which doubled by points, I was 2nd stacked on the last hand. Big Stack called me all in and I decided to call with my AK, he had AQ. To quote www.planetstacked.com

"Dominated hands (ex. AK vs. AQ or J5 vs. J4): Hand with better kicker is ~69% to ~75% favorite."

The bugger hit his Q giving him a pair. He said I got "bad beat" but I don't like to think like that, if the better hand always won then poker would be no fun. Besides winging about things all the time only puts you "on tilt" and worsens your game in the long run. I'm just happy to have one a pot in my first online sit and go that really meant something, If i had come 10th to 4th like the 7 buggers who went out before me I would have had to wait another month to get enough UP's to enter another one.

Going round my sisters for a Chinese later today, my Dad will be there. It's the first time I've seen him for 1 yr and 6 months so I'm looking forward to that.

Farmhouse

Tue, 31 May 2005 17:47:55 GMT

Anyone heading to the farmie at 7:38? If so i'll see you there!

Had my interview with the NHS Admin and Clerical department today, went really well. When they match me up to my references I'll probably be working on 'Medical Records' shifting through a database of current and ex-patients. It pays £6.92 p/h, 11% bonus on every pay check and it has a pension scheme.

Now that is ever so slightly better than McDonalds...

Poker Tournament

Tue, 31 May 2005 11:12:09 GMT

Good afternoon everyone!

Just writing to inform you that myself and Mr Walling walling are planning to hold a largeish No-Limit Hold 'Em Poker tournament in the near future. I'm just trying to gauge a response here, see how many people might be up for it and see if it's worth going ahead with the plan.

If you are slightly interested, even if you don't think you'll commit in the long term or don't currently know how to play Poker or Hold 'Em at the moment please comment here or email poker@wideasleep.net

If you don't know how to play but would like to know, or you get the jist but would like to improve to an adequete level then give me a shout and i'll try to organise a training event to go over the basics and get you up to scratch. I highly recommend downloading and playing www.ultimatebet.com, they have a huge amount of 'play chip' tables and several good freerolls (tournaments with no entry fee) daily.

If enough people are interested then myself and Walling will do the ground work. It will be very professionaly run, right down to dealers, multiple tables and even casino quality chips. The buy in (entry fee that goes into the pot) will probably be £5 (so if 20 people enter the prize pool will be £100). We will also have a £1 entry fee (or something there abouts), this will be used to pay the dealers, hire the venue etc, if there is any cash left over (i doubt it) i'll probably start some kind of fund for buying extra chips and felt table mats and stuff, to ensure transparency (ie. prove that me and Walling arn't nicking anything) i'll probably post the accounts of the fund online so you can see what we are doing.

All the information will be available on a wideasleep hosted poker website which will be ready for launch in the next couple of days. If you have any further queries please ask myself or Walling, alternativly email the address above.

Thanks for your time,
Dave