I've been saying it for months. Two weeks ago I finally followed through and went back to the gym. I've been paying for it all this time, well over a year since I've last been and there's been no other excuse. I've found that my cardio strength has been terrible and my back is bothering me more than it was but the cardio was the main thing that ( Read more... )

Day two of the three day virtual course done and dusted. The instructor leaves a bit to be desired. He does have experience using the software but it feels like he's just reading the course material and it feels like he sometimes doesn't know what he's doing or telling you. Just sometimes. And sometimes he gets messing around looking for things or ( Read more... )

Further to the death of Anne Kirkbride ( Read more... )

Note to self... you know the gym is going to be busier on a Monday after work. Why don't you wait until Tuesday? Because you're a numpty and you keep forgetting ( Read more... )

Three days. Three long days.
Some years ago we at work adopted a framework for delivering IT services to the rest of the corporation. It's called ITIL. We didn't implement much of it but are pushing more towards it these days. It's all processes and "best practices" and all the other buzzwords you don't want to know. More buzzwords and acronyms ( Read more... )

Note to Ms. Bus Driver ( Read more... )

Been a decent week at work, was working on trying to built a difficult report and i was determined it would submit to my will. It looks like i have triumped but I'm now waiting for someone else to do some data work before I can add the last bits to it and give it a thorough testing. This is different than trying to debug something or fix something ( Read more... )

Yesterday at the gym, the personal training area was a bit busy so I suggested to D. that we work on the circuit machines as a change. Good Grief, it didn't take long before my leg muscles were objecting strenuously! Ow! Never mind, it's good for me. right? I'm not as sore today as i thought i would be, though ( Read more... )

Into my third week back to work. Seem to be doing ok, though still feeling twinges of scar tissue pulling. I had a flu shot through work this morning and as nobody was waiting behind me, chatted to the nurse a few minutes about the op etc. She did say that scar tissue shrinks over time so it might pull and massage might indeed help. I'm getting a ( Read more... )

I noticed in the news today that a Second Cup cafe on Spring Garden Road is closing at the end of the year. SGR is one of the main shopping streets in downtown and Second Cup is a Canadian answer to Starbucks. I'm not a regular coffee drinker, I prefer tea but Second Cup does do very good coffee, better than Starbucks as far as that goes. Starbucks ( Read more... )