More Poker Burnout

It's getting harder for me to go to a poker room, or to stay there once I've started playing. I've gone twice since last pokerblogging, and I've won +$50 and +$20 USD, respectively. It's been a good month, that's paid for a lot of expenses, but I'm really getting sick of being in a poker room. I might have to ressurect some other obsessive hobbies soon.


From the UK, there's encouraging news about solving the childhood obesity problem. Jamie Oliver, the unpretentious Naked Chef had a reality cooking show last year called Jamie's School Dinners, where he critised the quality of the processed, fatty, low-quality food served to British schoolchildren, and instead took it on himself to feed them 20,000 meals a day. The show apparently had an effect on the Blair government, and now several laws have passed to ban junk food from school vending machines and cafeterias. Also, they're adding healthy cooking instruction to the cirriculum. The problem of childhood obesity is reaching epidemic proportions in the UK, which is the fattest country in Europe. In the last 25 years, childhood obesity rates have increased by 400%. It's probably the same here in the US. It looks like Jamie has dedicated himself to this project, which has a website Feed Me Better. He's come over to the US, and was on NBC's Today from Sept 28-30, but whether we'll ever get legislation or awareness over here is doubtful, because our lobbyists aren't like those UK wankers.