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A few life udpates :
I'm currently back in Paris, teaching chess (zzzzz...), appreciating its spring beauty for once, knowing I will be gone soon...
The poker camps are (finally!) going to happen, may 23rd to may 26th in Barcelona.
2+2 link : here. Slightly less than 3 weeks to go, good interest and 7 paid students so far (out of 10). I'll be in BCN 12-29 of may more or less.
It seems I'm going to be the proud owner of a bar in Ougadougou (a family gift). The place isn't entirely built yet and we are hoping the promise of beer will keep the military from destroying the place (a lot of unrest in Burkina Faso atm).
June 1-17 I'll finish up the school year teaching chess in France, and then I'll be basically free. Plans are vague though as they are dependant on the state of my finances + the success of the poker project, realistically I think I'm 10% to stay in Paris and find ways to make money, 20% I spend a few months in Barcelona grinding online poker, 30% I go traveling in SE Asia (I have family in Laos), 20% I go on some kind of Euro trip (cycling along the Danube, hitchiking to Romania/Moldova/Ukraine), 20% I go somewhere else (Canada...? Burkina Faso? It's the rainy season there though).
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Barcelona, unsurprisingly, was a lot of fun. Time kind of stops in the No Worries villa. I didn't see much of the city this time, as I was too busy lazing around in the sun. I did go out once to see my friend Paul perfom in an open scene rock club, and went to see the Real Madrid- Barcelona copa del Rey final in a bar, and again for a night of dancing, but that's about it. The rest was Montada i Reixac; delicious food, throwing people who said "soccer" into the swimming pool, losing bets at ping pong, football, being terrible at darts, books, beer, night long discussions about politics, sex, pepper spray, Mickey Mouse, Zen; social smoking, beer, a nudist balcony, hiking in the woods, partying with travelers, meat, not enough sleeping, pancakes and champagne on sunday mornings, never wanting to leave haha
No reason to be nostalgic though, as I'll be there again as soon as next week to set up the poker camp.
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A few things I'm going to try out this week :
- no more snooze button; regardless of the number of quality hours I slept, when the alarm rings, I get up, wash my face and start the day
- gym : 3 times (I spent 700 euros on a membership, have been 5 times in 3 months)
- internet planification/control : if I'm honest with myself, I've struggled with an addiction to my computer in the last 7/8 years, and it has hampered my development in a strong way. I pride myself on being able to smoke a pack of cigarettes on any given night and never feel the craving to smoke, and yet I have to check my mail 100 times a day and refresh the same fucking 7 websites over and over again. I have turned one of the most powerful tools of enrichment available to us into a mind-numbing TV bis - till today. I will experiment with logging my internet time, and whenever I use my computer pre plan the internet browsing to avoid time wasting.
- blog updating every 3 days or less; have to find my flow, I believe writing a blog is good for me in many ways, but only if I have the discipline to do it right
- watch one TED video daily
- drink 1L of water daily at least
That's probably enough for 1 week; report to follow...
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It's almost 1 a.m and my laptop is dying
Time to finish my glass of wine and say bonsoir, f*** editing
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