The day after

I feel like shit today.
went back to the alcohol last night for clubbing.
went a bit overboard.
lost 4 hours from my memory bank and I have no idea how I got home.

no more beer for me.
got my ipod up and running - got the shakes when trying to work it so have given up for now. One thing I have noticed is that itunes is not very good. hopefully I can learn some customisation tips.

currently listening to:-
It was a good day, by Ice Cube

Friday

Well, it's the end of a short week for me. I am off tomorrow to the smoke to look around the amusement park called cockerneyland (or London for those who prefer proper names).
The itinerary goes like this:-
08.45ish - get train from Cambridge to London.
10.00ish - get off train and mill around not knowing which tube station to go to.
10.20ish - get to this place and fork over lots of cash for a shiny one of these.
10.40ish - go to either the Imperial War Museum, the V&A, The Tait or the British - again. Haven't decided which to go to yet!
3pm-ish - get train home
4.30pm-ish - get home and then plug in shiny present to get some music installed.
7.00pm-ish - get ready to go out with Jon, Big Will, Big Paul, Big Will's Lady (maybe), Big Gay Dave (BGD for short). Drink some spirits, watch Big Will make his famous Black Russians - just a smidge under half a pint of vodka, just a smidge under half a pint of kahlua, add a dash of coke to taste.
8.00pm-ish - Watch Big Will decend into giggly schoolboy drunkeness.
9.00pm-ish - off to pub - no clue which one
10.30pm-ish - Go to Boogie Wonderland.
after that.......................dance like a loon, drink a little bit more, take some photos and then attempt to talk to women, fail at that and then go home alone and in a bad mood

saturday - wake up, go swimming and then go home and sleep some more.

currently listening to:-
Precious; by Depeche Mode.

Addiction...........sort of

I always looked down on addicts. Now I know how hard it is once you get hooked on something. In my case it's painkillers. I have found myself taking more and more ibruprofen and aspirin for my knee problem. I have taken the step of going cold turkey this morning. Partly because I seem to be taking far too many, and also because they seem to have stopped working - possibly to taking too many.

hopefully I won't be too pissed off at people.

Shredded

Today I shredded my finger whilst pissing around with a razor. idiot. Now I have a rather ungainly looking contraption on my finger which should protect the large cut I have on my middle finger.

anyhoo, tonight is offically renamed "not going out night" as I am staying in and doing nothing in particular. I would be out but for the fact that my mates only ever want to go to the pub and get ratted, while I am quite content to do other stuff to keep me out of the pub. hey ho.
so tonight I will be moving furniture in the bedroom and generally tidying a bit. What an exciting life I now lead.

Fast forward one week and next Friday I am in the smoke all day to go to a couple of museums on my day off. These will most probably be the Imperial War museum and a.n.other, haven't decided on t'other one yet.
Then friday night off to Boogie at the junction. disco cheese ahoy - Really looking forward to it. I think the idea is to go with Jon, Bill, Bill's bird, BGD and meet Big Paul there. Top Fun.

Saturday night should be out after rugby, so really looking forward to a weekend of fun. Just gotta survive the week.

right, off now to try not to smash my tv to bits when I move it round the room.

adios.

D

Contention

I may in the past have bitched about the fact that we have no goddam bandwidth between 5.30ish (when I get home) and 10pm (everybody goes to sleep) every week night.

Apparently it is because BT did the broadband connection on the cheap, and whenever somebody else is on the net in our street and the two nearby streets we get no bandwidth.

TOSH.

I am on the web tonight and the people most on the web all the time are out of the country. Coincidence?????

waiting for a life (again)

Got to thinking yesterday, when the fucking bandwidth was gone, again (and therefore unable to access the net, but more of that tomorrow); that now I am single I seem to have stopped going out. ALL THE TIME.
I have thought about internet dating, but can't really be bothered with all of the registering shite. Also can't be arsed about trying to get back to having a social life as I am enjoying the attempting to get fit stuff at the mo.
This morning I did 32 lengths of Parkside Pools in a very reasonable time. Got to get a new pair of goggles as my current pair seem to be buggered. they keep fogging up all the time. List of shopping for swimming is now:-
New shorts, possibly even some semi-professional ones
new goggles x 2, one mirrored pair and one normal pair
nose clips, maybe
ear plugs, maybe, maybe not - I've got some wax ones which are the business, but are getting out of shape. luckily I've got two sets so I've got enough for a while.
If only they'd actually give Parkside a proper clean then i'd be really happy about swimming there.

anyway - I am off so browse the net for a date, while I've got the bandwidth to actually surf.

ps - hi to mum who has just had her broadband installed at home. Do me a favour and don't have too much of a go at me about the swearing;-)

Diet and Exercise

Okay, now that all sporty stuff has finished I now have to get my arse to some level of fitness. So, swimming three times a week before work, weights twice a week after work.

And got to get my diet back to decency, rather than eating crap after work.

Some photos and other gubbins

As I said in my last post it's the end of the season and the start of my pre-operation countdown . My knee op. is on the 2nd January 2007. Got to get down from the around 100 kgs mark I am now, down to around 85-90 by the end of the year. That's apparently a hard target but I think I can do it. anyhoo, posts coming on a more frequent basis soon. Here's a couple of photos of me in action.

I'd post more but the connection to the web is all up the spout at the minute. Just a quick shout out to Mosh who is going through some personal woes at the minute. Chin up man, hope it gets better.

End of Season = Happines & Sadness

It's the end of the cricket season and I am feeling a bit down about the fact that I will not be playing until next May. But, It's been a good season for me, even though my team got Relegated. 250 runs plus. No competitive ducks, no GD's. I feel quite decent. The knee injury I sustained in January has actually done me the world of good in the fact that I played a couple of divisions down for our 4ths and scored well then. Prepared me for when I've played back for the threes. Not sure I'll actually get to play for the twos as the skipper doesn't rate me as a batsman. Still, it's been fun. I've got some photos which i am posting to show what a fat bastard I have been this year due to not having any exercise. This will change. I am going to lose the gut over the winter, and after the end of February 2007 I should be able to get back to gymming and other stuff.

January 2nd 2007 is the date that has been set for my arthroscopy. I am being whisked to the hospital nearby for day surgery. Get home, have a couple of days to recuperate (I had booked the time off anyway) and back to work. 1.5 months rest, recuperation and physio and I should get back to my old self. In the mean time it's on with the swimming 3 times a week before work at Parkside and some upper body free weights stuff. Bring on the demise of the ginormous gut!
I'll be posting some photos of me in action, just as soon as I either get the bandwidth to actually post these, which going by current trends is around 4am.