The Life and Times of Plod

Hello Dear readers, you may or may not have realised I have started to exercise and get healthy like a supergerbil, I am after some playlists for my new shiney 8gig ipod nano. I am after some playlists here in the comments. The structure should be as follows:

• Tracks should get the adrenaline pumping
• There should be 10 tracks
• Tracks should be as close as 3 minutes as humanly possible
• No two tracks in a playlist unless absolutely necessary
• As much variety as possible in a playlist.

I will try and use a playlist in each of my training sessions in the coming weeks and put the results here. Adrian thought I should offer a prize for this so I’ll just quote exactly what he said:

[16:51] <@a17drian> ooo ‘make this gerbil burn!’ - Give me play listens and who gives me the best burn will win a jam jar full of my own personal sweat which was produced from all my trainning when listening to your heart kicker

So yeah, i’ll honour that

There seems to be a lot of negativity at the moment surrounding orange, first of course there was aims problem, and it seems shrink and commenters, have jumped ship to vodafone. I have also started to shift my like for what I thought for a long time was the best UK mobile phone provider. First there was the 9 months it took to switch my mobile contract to the company plan. My current problem is with the way they provide blackberry solutions.

I think the staff contract is up the end of this month, perhaps its time to make the jump to voda.

Today, I went out on the new bike to the Taff Trail, Halfords finally pulled their fingers out of their arses and got me my bike back. Was an awesome ride, it was pissing down with rain most of the way, and I was soked to the bone, but I had a big smile on my face. I took the car to Taffs Well, parked up rode to the end of the trail, went and had a look at the assembly as I hadn’t seen that in the flesh yet. Then I got on the train, back and drove home. The only bad part was waiting half hour for a train while beginning to get cold. I now have feeling again in my fingers and feet.

I also managed to sort out getting papers delivered yesterday, so this morning I had managed to get the papers read almost before aims had even got up .

Now to do some shopping on wiggle, maybe window again, who knows. Oh i forgot to mention, ant went out and bought himself a nice XC bike, which means we should be able to go out a lot. Here’s a piccie of his old bike in the back and his new in the front.

Does anyone speak russian, I’ve had this comment on my blog and I don’t understand it.

Saturday, we took the bikes down to Halfords to get them checked out, and for me to get new gear changers after Adrian messed mine up mine on Friday, turns out the eejit didn’t quite understand the power of hydraulic disc brakes. Sunday I went to castle bingo with my family, I didn’t play mind but I just sat there reading the observer listening to my ipod. Yesterday Aims and I went to the National Botanic Garden, which was absolutely brilliant, I urge anyone who hasn’t been to go, I know they are in financial difficulties and I really think that this would be a great loss to Wales and the UK.

Well I didn’t vote today, and I feel like such a hypocrite. I’ve always told people about what a vote means, and said stuff like if you don’t vote you can’t complain, even if you spoil the paper. But alas, in changing houses, the council doesn’t seem to have me on the electoral register, even though I ticked the box, why on earth I need to tick a box I don’t know. I mean surely if you pay council tax, send the guy a card and let him decide on the day. I suppose its still my fault I should have pursued the issue, when the card didn’t come in the post.

For those interested, you can follow my weight loss progress here. As well as that Anthony has put up some pictures of my nice new shiny bike today, I will amend this post in the morning, with the URLs as I can’t seem to find them right now, and I will get round to taking my own pictures on Saturday, toodle pips.

This imho is absolutely priceless click here for more from xkcd.com

Well i bought that bike, and I am very happy. Been about a bit on it but not for long, gonna do a lot over the weekend and hopefully take aims to Brecon. I’ll get some pics together soon for you.

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