I've just ordered my free "walk-o-meter" from Walkers Crisps just like they told me to in their new telly advert. I'll keep you posted on how I get on. Meanwhile I've opened a book on guess the least number of steps I take during a normal working day.
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9:43 PM
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Lesley has bought me a Freeview box (it was for my Christmas but she was as desperate as I was to get it up and running). We will put it in the bedroom when we get the aerial split. The reception is great from the aerial linked into the sun lounge so should be fine. As the bedroom shares a partition wall with my office I was thinking of feeding the Freeview box signal to a computer for recording direct to hard disk instead of a video recorder. Anybody have any recommendations for a good PVR card? Not interested in the TV tuner side of things as the Freeview box will handle all that. Long term, would be to pick up a lovely LCD TV screen and hang it on the wall, nice, Gillette Soccer Saturday from the comfort of my bed, be still my beating heart.
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5:35 PM
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It's almost as if the clocks went back 10 years instead of 1 hour last night if this report is anything to go by. During the summer I hoped that Rangers finally had a strike partnership to rival that of the great McCoist/Hately pairing of the 90s. It's taken a few months but the team are now knocking them in at one end and keeping them out at the other. Long may it continue.
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4:58 PM
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The data storage hard drive on ye olde Athlon 700 general work horse computer has now gone kaput. This is the same machine who's main boot hard drive failed a few months back. Thankfully having heeded the warning back then I have most of the data backed up. This drive was only just over 2 years old but was by far the most heavily worked disc in my network. Still, if this is the level of failures I can expect to see then I must reconsider how I provide network storage.
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8:39 PM
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I've been cheated, conned, hood winked and taken for a ride. When I were a lad I was awed by the vision of the modern world as revealed to me each week by Raymond Baxter and Judith Hann on Tomorrows World. By now, they promised me, we'd drive to work, once a week, in our self driving hover car along empty and pollution free hover-ways. Once at the office, we'd switch on the automated machine that did our work for us before nipping back home for a week of care free leisure. Back home to the self cleaning house, sipping a perfectly chilled Martini (mixed by your own robot Butler) while gazing out of the window across the manicured lawn (maintained by the robot-mower). Life would be good in the 21st Century. Where did it all go wrong and who do I blame, eh?
I lost faith in Tomorrows World (and so did the BBC some years later) when I was old enough to spot the obvious crap being presented. I remember it clearly, Judith Hann was demonstrating the newly developed Compact Disc circa 1983. She took the shiny new CD, smeared marmalade all over it and stuck it into the very expensive top loading CD player, assuring us the orange shredded abuse would not affect the crystal clear audio. It didn't work, big surprise (to the presenter certainly, but not to me). My dream of a Utopian future crashed around me in that instant.
And so, Today, I traveled to work in my clapped out, damp and smoking car through traffic jams, accidents and breakdowns. Arriving at the office I fired up the computer and started wading through the 105 e-mails I'd received during my week off. The day went downhill from there, all because of shredded bloody marmalade.
The BBC seemed to have erased their collective memory of Tomorrows World as no mention of it can be found by searching their website. Very sad but probably wise.
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6:21 PM
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I'm appalled by the treatment that Berti Vogts is receiving in the press and by so called fans at the airport. The newspapers (led by The super soaraway Scum) are spewing hate, that is almost certainly racist, upon the hapless Scotland manager. That he will go is now certain isn't even enough for them as they now focus on the pay off he'll receive. This and the shameful scenes at the airport of the "Tartan Army" spitting at members of the squad and SFA lead me to believe that Scottish Football from the fans down to the pub teams need a reality check.
Scottish Football is mince, you are crap, rubbish, deal with it. Yes Berti has been a disaster and you should be doing better with the players you've got but you'll never qualify for a major tournament again. The world of football has moved on and left you behind. A better manager will be able to motivate and instill some sort of shape but it will not be enough. Once you had 2 or 3 genuine world class players in every squad, now you have a permanently injured Bazza "Fud" Ferguson and a legend in his own mind (but no-one else's), McFadden. Playing at their best, mid-table average is all you can achieve.
Changing the manager can and does work, look at my own glorious norn iron, this time last year ridiculed for playing 1300 minutes without scoring a goal. Out goes Sammy McIlroy, in comes Lawrie Sanchez and watch the goals flood in. He's instilled confidence and a formation based on our strengths. Norn Iron football is even worse than Scotland with our 3 top premier league teams probably on a power with the bottom half of the Scottish First Division. That's how bad it is. Once, like Scotland, we produced world class players, Best, Blanchflower, Jennings, Peacock, Whiteside but no longer. Most of our current squad comes from the English lower leagues but we can hold our own against better opposition. Even through the recent dark days the fans never give up supporting the team, Scotland (the fans, the press and the SFA) should take a good hard look at themselves and be ashamed.
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1:41 PM
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Bonnie and Clyde (both male) had a trip to the vets today to get their balls cut off (were that it so simple, son, were that it so simple). Bonnie seems fine and nearly back to his old self but Clyde is still very tired and dopey. Hopefully they'll be back to normal tomorrow.
I had to return to the vets to pick up some worming powder and as I got into the car I noticed and old couple sitting in the car park bawling their eyes out, very sad. We've all been there, tends to put your own problems into perspective. They'll be returning to a cold and empty house with a hole in their lives that will be almost impossible to fill. I cried all the way home.
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4:10 PM
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walking. Fancied getting a pedometer ever since I heard that McDonald's were giving them away (but I prefer Burger King, comedy, eh?). The last time I did serious amounts of walking was as a student living in Germany (Braunchsweig) for 4 months. We walked everywhere, from my flat to the pub was a good mile and half each way and a trip to Uni was a 4 mile round journey. I lost shed loads of weight and never felt better (apart from my bad back which eased off after 3 or 4 weeks of solid exercise). Certainly would have blown the recommended 10,000 (5 miles) steps each day guideline out of the water. I shudder to think how many steps I take each day now, if I'm honest I'd be lucky to break a 1000. Maybe I should replicate the walking regime from my time in Germany, along with the constant diet of Beer, crisps, Bratwurst, fruit juice and Toblerone. Worked last time.
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3:56 PM
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Well, right about now we should be getting ready to fly to Rome for a 5 day break, but we're not, I'm still here. I'm just not up to it both physically and mentally. I've always wanted to visit Rome and who knows, maybe one day I'll get there, but at the moment I just can't imagine being well enough ever again. Traveling completely destroys me, both the stress and physical demands are too much, so I talked to Lesley and we decided not to go. Lost the cost of the air tickets as there is no refund but I hadn't got around to booking the hotel etc. Feeling very down.
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8:19 PM
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New research claims that lack of exercise during your younger years leads to a higher risk of contracting ME/CFS in later life. This contradicts previous research that claimed active kids were more likely to suffer ME/CFS in adulthood. You pays your money you take your choice. As a side note I was extremely active as a child up until puberty then it all started to go downhill from there.
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7:17 PM
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I feel like complete and utter crap. I'm back in the office now (we finally got data installed today) and the affect upon my mind and body has been stark. I don't know if it is because of the relative lack of physical activity over the past couple of weeks, while working from home, but I haven't felt this bad in a few months. Hopefully I can get back to some level of health quickly with the help of general activity and graded exercise. My brain is in total shut down mode, a splitting headache, nose running, exhausted... pish.
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11:07 PM
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