Today I watched TV all day. My everything is in recovery mode, I went for a swim late last night and it was good. Bought new swimming trunks and goggles(with mean looking mirrored lenses!) and everything. Pretty psyched about it. Lost my swimming goggles half way through. my swimming which had me searching allover the pool for it to no immediate avail. Found them in the pool filter after going away and coming back with my torch. I swam just short of a kilometer. Thats my new goal - swimming continuously for 1 km. Afterwards i looked at my stats and saw that I registered only 2 laps for my effort and then realised that this way because I didn't press lap on my watch after each length. Hell. Oh well, what you going to do right?
Whipped myself some dinner just now. Stood in the kitchen in my vest and pyjamas listening to Sammy Hagar and other various stuff. Threw together a mean dish of Mushrooms and onions(which is like my staple right now) and mixed in some peppers and tomato juice. A touch of garlic. I say a touch but it wasnt - it was like 4 mini cloves. Was pretty good. Was out of meat so i left that out. I bought my holiday ticket yesterday. It will be good to get away for a while, forget everything and everyone. The dude at the travel agent started talking to me about baseball and how the recent English premier league team, who was just bought out by the Boston RedSox, is now very much being managed like the baseball team. Yeah so i was like fine. He took my money though, to be honest I shouldn't and probably will never go to a travel agent again because I pretty much knew which flight I was going to buy and was wanting to see if he could get me a better deal - he couldn't. All he could talk about was the transfer window that was open last night. Go figure.
Yeah so i also bought a new watch last weekend. Its a Suunto Ambit. Dead sleek but pretty big too. It kinda a cross between a military looking watch and a outdoor watch. It gets your attention. That set me back a bit. Had me thinking the next day if i should take it back. I didn't. Its pretty freaking awesome though. Its waterproof and its a exercise watch plus altimeter, barometer and compass and all the other good stuff you'd expect. It pretty much replaces my Garmin 405 forerunner which is a great piece of kit but didn't do itself any favours not being waterproof. That said i must have had it for a good 1 year and its still bang up to date. Never mind. Anyway its been replaced and thats that. Check my twitter stream its all up in there - i was like an excited child.
Registered for my new course, labeled The Building Blocks of Software. Its pretty intense and I haven't even started. Looked at the course handbook and all I saw was mathematical expressions. I think this one is going to be a real biscuit. Anyway besides that I've been pretty regimental exercise wise, and the new watch was much a part of this than anything. I've started swimming as I said, my new watch is ok with this and can handle it. Its also recording my every move from runs, walks, trekking or pretty much everything. I'm not sure if I'm ready to start analysing and tuning my performance yet. I think I need to get most of the hard work done regularly before i can concentrate on the details. At the moment my exercise routine has been defined. Its run 5kms 3 times a week monday to Friday. A Big run Saturday and like today rest. In between the runs, I swim and do weight training. The weight training is not really intense yet to defined. its just doing some exercises regularly.
Work has been ok, I've had to skimp on my lunch breaks in the last few days because I had so much work to do but thats ok if its because Im busy. I don't like being idle, and idle hands are evil or something like that? Whatever. So when I do get back to my book, it will be good.
Got a fantastic new pair of trousers(if i say pants, they laugh at me) as well as a great new light weight jacket which is exactly what i ordered(funny that) and exactly what i wanted. Both of them were ordered from a military supply store i found online - I also previously bought my running sunglasses from them. I find military gear good quality and provided you know what you want, good looking and good prices. The thing is to be careful not to be over zealous and get that red neck thing going for you…style wise.
Been going geocaching lately, pretty cool actually. Found myself all caught up in bushes and strange places finding caches in specified geographic coordinates. Half the fun is trumping around following the GPS through new places and neighbourhoods. I've found four so far. haven't been back yet but I will. So theres been that.
Apart from my most recent culinary ambitions, I've tried to keep a handle on what food I consume. I've stopped drinking sodas. Partly because of the sugar and a fusion between my recent good form at my most recent dentist visit and the effect of sugar on the immune system. Now i do eat sugar, just not so much. I've also started caring about how much fatty stuff i stuff down my throat. I work pretty darn hard to run and exercise and keep in shape and I'm pretty not up loosing that because I'm too lazy to find alternative healthier options…which still feed me.
As part of my recent military purchase, I upgraded my lenses in my sunglasses to polaroid gasses after seeing the difference on saturday I was in the Oakley store in Covent Garden. Makes a massive difference. i don't wear eyewear at all, unless I'm running. I've never been one to wear sunglasses - I like to see people's faces and for me I have this niggle that it kinda is a way to hide behind them…i don't like deceptions or facades in general. Semi rant over.
Got an email from a dude in Australia who came across my recent project where I wrote an utility to interface with a PBX system we have/had at the office. We wanted to see if it was available and how much it cost. That was sorta cool. Long story short, I mailed him a copy for free.
Bought Deus Ex and Assassins Creed Brotherhood for Xbox 360 and while I've done the all bad thing of buying two games at the same time and not finishing one before starting the other - its ok because I've not really spent good time with either of them. Assisins Creed has seen some good action but not enough. Thats kinda good I suppose, means i have better things to do like training. Still I don't drink. I've put down countless offers to go for a drink and I'm so over caring about it now - its so so good. Besides I don't like drinking with the masses anyway.. Hopefully I've become socially detached and they'll stop asking me.(smiley face. Just a odd thought… I don't know anyone else who is in the Rolling Stones other than Mick Jagger and Kieth something…and their are 5 members in that band. Weird and random I know but yeah.
I've been recycling. Thats good. I've been tracking my sleeping time too. I'm looking to get 7-8 hours of sleep hours a day. thats not exactly happening right now but I've averaged about 6-7hours which is on the right track. Got this app on the iPhone that I turn on and put under my pillow before I got to bed and it tells me how much and what kind of sleep Im getting. I love gadgets. Yeah so theres that too.
Nothing special out at the movies recently. In fact I've not ventured that far in about two weeks or so. Bought a DVD box set of Pride and Prejudice, Atonement and Sense and Sensibility and something else I can't remember but I've not watched them either. Thats pretty much one my todo list this week i think. I have a thing for Kiera Knightly right now.
I also got the two most recent James Bond movies and watched the socks off them. I love everything james bond or Jason Bourney. Spy flicks - I love them.
Thats about it from me right now.
Whipped myself some dinner just now. Stood in the kitchen in my vest and pyjamas listening to Sammy Hagar and other various stuff. Threw together a mean dish of Mushrooms and onions(which is like my staple right now) and mixed in some peppers and tomato juice. A touch of garlic. I say a touch but it wasnt - it was like 4 mini cloves. Was pretty good. Was out of meat so i left that out. I bought my holiday ticket yesterday. It will be good to get away for a while, forget everything and everyone. The dude at the travel agent started talking to me about baseball and how the recent English premier league team, who was just bought out by the Boston RedSox, is now very much being managed like the baseball team. Yeah so i was like fine. He took my money though, to be honest I shouldn't and probably will never go to a travel agent again because I pretty much knew which flight I was going to buy and was wanting to see if he could get me a better deal - he couldn't. All he could talk about was the transfer window that was open last night. Go figure.
Yeah so i also bought a new watch last weekend. Its a Suunto Ambit. Dead sleek but pretty big too. It kinda a cross between a military looking watch and a outdoor watch. It gets your attention. That set me back a bit. Had me thinking the next day if i should take it back. I didn't. Its pretty freaking awesome though. Its waterproof and its a exercise watch plus altimeter, barometer and compass and all the other good stuff you'd expect. It pretty much replaces my Garmin 405 forerunner which is a great piece of kit but didn't do itself any favours not being waterproof. That said i must have had it for a good 1 year and its still bang up to date. Never mind. Anyway its been replaced and thats that. Check my twitter stream its all up in there - i was like an excited child.
Registered for my new course, labeled The Building Blocks of Software. Its pretty intense and I haven't even started. Looked at the course handbook and all I saw was mathematical expressions. I think this one is going to be a real biscuit. Anyway besides that I've been pretty regimental exercise wise, and the new watch was much a part of this than anything. I've started swimming as I said, my new watch is ok with this and can handle it. Its also recording my every move from runs, walks, trekking or pretty much everything. I'm not sure if I'm ready to start analysing and tuning my performance yet. I think I need to get most of the hard work done regularly before i can concentrate on the details. At the moment my exercise routine has been defined. Its run 5kms 3 times a week monday to Friday. A Big run Saturday and like today rest. In between the runs, I swim and do weight training. The weight training is not really intense yet to defined. its just doing some exercises regularly.
Work has been ok, I've had to skimp on my lunch breaks in the last few days because I had so much work to do but thats ok if its because Im busy. I don't like being idle, and idle hands are evil or something like that? Whatever. So when I do get back to my book, it will be good.
Got a fantastic new pair of trousers(if i say pants, they laugh at me) as well as a great new light weight jacket which is exactly what i ordered(funny that) and exactly what i wanted. Both of them were ordered from a military supply store i found online - I also previously bought my running sunglasses from them. I find military gear good quality and provided you know what you want, good looking and good prices. The thing is to be careful not to be over zealous and get that red neck thing going for you…style wise.
Been going geocaching lately, pretty cool actually. Found myself all caught up in bushes and strange places finding caches in specified geographic coordinates. Half the fun is trumping around following the GPS through new places and neighbourhoods. I've found four so far. haven't been back yet but I will. So theres been that.
Apart from my most recent culinary ambitions, I've tried to keep a handle on what food I consume. I've stopped drinking sodas. Partly because of the sugar and a fusion between my recent good form at my most recent dentist visit and the effect of sugar on the immune system. Now i do eat sugar, just not so much. I've also started caring about how much fatty stuff i stuff down my throat. I work pretty darn hard to run and exercise and keep in shape and I'm pretty not up loosing that because I'm too lazy to find alternative healthier options…which still feed me.
As part of my recent military purchase, I upgraded my lenses in my sunglasses to polaroid gasses after seeing the difference on saturday I was in the Oakley store in Covent Garden. Makes a massive difference. i don't wear eyewear at all, unless I'm running. I've never been one to wear sunglasses - I like to see people's faces and for me I have this niggle that it kinda is a way to hide behind them…i don't like deceptions or facades in general. Semi rant over.
Got an email from a dude in Australia who came across my recent project where I wrote an utility to interface with a PBX system we have/had at the office. We wanted to see if it was available and how much it cost. That was sorta cool. Long story short, I mailed him a copy for free.
Bought Deus Ex and Assassins Creed Brotherhood for Xbox 360 and while I've done the all bad thing of buying two games at the same time and not finishing one before starting the other - its ok because I've not really spent good time with either of them. Assisins Creed has seen some good action but not enough. Thats kinda good I suppose, means i have better things to do like training. Still I don't drink. I've put down countless offers to go for a drink and I'm so over caring about it now - its so so good. Besides I don't like drinking with the masses anyway.. Hopefully I've become socially detached and they'll stop asking me.(smiley face. Just a odd thought… I don't know anyone else who is in the Rolling Stones other than Mick Jagger and Kieth something…and their are 5 members in that band. Weird and random I know but yeah.
I've been recycling. Thats good. I've been tracking my sleeping time too. I'm looking to get 7-8 hours of sleep hours a day. thats not exactly happening right now but I've averaged about 6-7hours which is on the right track. Got this app on the iPhone that I turn on and put under my pillow before I got to bed and it tells me how much and what kind of sleep Im getting. I love gadgets. Yeah so theres that too.
Nothing special out at the movies recently. In fact I've not ventured that far in about two weeks or so. Bought a DVD box set of Pride and Prejudice, Atonement and Sense and Sensibility and something else I can't remember but I've not watched them either. Thats pretty much one my todo list this week i think. I have a thing for Kiera Knightly right now.
I also got the two most recent James Bond movies and watched the socks off them. I love everything james bond or Jason Bourney. Spy flicks - I love them.
Thats about it from me right now.