I’ve had some orthotics produced to give me the extra bit of arch my foot seems to have lost (particularly since my injury a few months ago)… An unexpected benefit - Amanda says I am now the ‘perfect height’. Not sure how I feel about this ;-)
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…caused by broken router in additional to the usual busy-ness. Now reconnected (on everything but my brother’s irritating MacBook, which is having Wifi issues), but normal activity will not resume for a little while as have even more busy-ness this weekend, and have started with the new gym membership, so life is more than usually hectic… Sorry. Be back soon.
(no, this isn’t the seven songs meme I owe on. That’ll come. Be patient my child.).
I’ve spent most of the last week in bed, in pain cause by a bunch of malignant viruses (and I believe this is the technical term for what they were doing) running up and down the length of my body setting off miniature shotguns with precise aim and intent. These nefarious negligible entities kept my eating very, very modest — my most attentive readers will remember that I have been attempting in some way to reduce my weight and improve my fitness — but, I’ve discovered, despite not really eating for a week Wii Fit tells me I’ve only lost about one pound. One pound!
This is going to take approximately forever, even once my activity consists of more than lying around, groaning melodramatically occasionally to impress the empty room, feeling sorry for myself and making occasional trips to Boots and The Doctor to obtain more magical pharmaceuticals*.
Ah well. Onwards and upwards. Hopefully be well enough for squash next week, and am back to work on Monday too so calorific burn rates will doubtless shoot through the roof.
*For reference: anti-nausea medication == awesome. Industrial grade cough mixture == awesome. Nurofen == magic. Rehydration sachets == taste of ground up dirt.
So, apparently giving people something new to read is a good way to get visitors to your blog. Who’d have thunk it? Traffic has spiked like a slayer through the heart over the last couple of days.
More will follow.
I’m not even going to apologise, this time, for my latest bout of ignoring this blog. It’s been busy. Let’s leave it at that. Slap me in person, if you like.
I’ve spent my down time doing fun things - reading through the back catalogue of Robert Charles Wilson (following the excellent recommendations of Tom and Simon via Twitter), as well as the new Alistair Reynolds, the Sebastian Darke childrens’ books, the new Iain M Banks, and will soon be starting the Mike Carey (of Lucifer and Constantine fame) novels. I’ve got to this place where self-indulgence involves reading mountains of sci-fi and fantasy and its significantly healthier than pigging out on McDonalds so I’m running with it.
Have also been playing more of the new ‘Fire Emblem’ game on Wii than I’d like. This is a mediocre version of the brilliant GBA game that takes absolutely no advantage of the Wii control scheme and seems to have been scripted by a monkey prone to bouts of hysteria. The plot just keeps extending itself in explicable turns in order to cope with the fact that the game needs more missions to have justified its sticker price.
More excitingly, Wii Fit arrived last Monday and I’ve used it about 6 times, gaining some impressive and some not-so-impressive scores. It’s all part of my motivation to get fit, which has also seen me play squash for the first time in four years (admittedly only for 10 minutes, but, y’know…). Wii Fit also entertained about a dozen friends at the first BBQ of the season this weekend (mmm, chickan).
So, I’m busy, and I’m doing interesting things, and if you’d like to know what I’m up to find me on Twitter and Facebook as that’s where my social media output is going for the moment (book reviews on Visual Bookshelf, movie reviews on Flixster, random observations on life on Twitter).
Share and enjoy, people. Share and enjoy.
Back to work tomorrow and the usual shock that I have to work for a living. Expect me to be dazed, confused, and a couple of thousand kilometres distant until I manage to regain my bearings. Photos will appear on Flickr, and anecdotes will inevitably follow, of cat calls and haggling, of merguez and medinas…
My blog traffic spiked up in the last few weeks and then… I fell silent. Parents are visiting, job is busy and life has generally been unforgiving. Promise more will follow, erm, in late April, after I get back from the holiday we have planned for Tunisia.
Very exciting!
Hope y’all are well.
Also, my BBQ turned up yesterday. It is a Weber Q220, which I understand are the Mac Daddies of affordable gas BBQs, and I can’t wait to get grilling.
You wouldn’t necessarily know it from reading this blog, but I’m a decent writer. I’m capable of structuring arguments, thoughts, speeches, presentations and so on fairly well — I’m not claiming to be Martin Amis, but, y’know, not one of the manatees writing Family Guy (which, for the record, I am a fan of, but do criticise for being excruciatingly lazy with its writing from time to time. Blue Harvest, anyone?).
Anyway: once again, rather than taking that as a random diversion let’s call it an exemplar of what happens when you don’t plan a piece of writing. And that’s the temptation with blogs, just to hit “write new post” and spout random rubbish that’s occured to you that day. Well, no more! Or, at least, a little less. I plan to… plan more.
I should perhaps rename this blog the blog of unresolved resolutions. But I’m not sure that scans well.
Love my new neighbourhood, generally. Today, however, whilst getting some much needed building work done, instead of someone having a word with us discretely to let us know that the chaps sawing up wood were making maybe a little much noise and could we maybe keep it down, they sicked the council on us. Fair enough, turns out we were working out of regulation hours, but a quiet word rather than the council watchdog would have been ample. We’re not out to annoy anyone.
Grrr. Sometimes English reticence is just downright annoying.
Is not fun. Everything good costs a fortune and people seem surprisingly willing to sell crap for significant sums of money. The folks at Sofa Workshop ended up being best suited for us but really weren’t cheap. That said, the service was good, the follow up excellent, the access check impressive, and the number of customisable options very satisfactory.
I can’t wait till the house is sorted so I can get back to *only* shopping online.
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