Please don't show this in the UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12092196

An advertisement used to promote the show reportedly depicts a body
covered by a sheet with one hand wearing the singer's trademark
sequined glove visible.

I'm not sure how anyone can justify watching this anyway but the risk
to the discovery channel brand is huge. There's no way they should
show it.

Should I sit on my ass more?

As you may know I have various spreadsheets, each monitor various parts of my life or ‘interesting’ things that I observe. Two of which are my weight and the amount of exercise that I do.

Being relatively short (still taller than April), and having masses of muscle I have a high body mass index (bmi weight in kgs / height in m squared), I would like to get this under 30 i.e. not obese!!! Since I’ve been tracking my weight I have never had a bmi of less than 30. My best is shortly after a nice bout of food poisoning when I was 88.8kg, a bmi of 30.02. Anyway, it is a goal of mine to get under that level and keep it that way.

To reduce my weight I try to exercise, I’m not tremendously motivated and extremely weak when there is a more fun option available, i.e. pub. By keeping track of both weight and exercise I can easily see if my weight is going up too much or if I’m not exercising enough. I have now combined the two and the results are quite interesting.

My weight actually goes when I exercise (I must be buffing up). Doh! If I correlate the data (going back to January 2009 (when I bought the scales)), I have a positive correlation of 0.10. If I do the same on a monthly basis (count the times I exercise and average my weight) it is even stronger, 0.39.

Should I stop exercising? Should sit on my ass more?

No.

I should probably exercise more, drink less beer, eat less / more healthily.  How very boring.

P.S. This analyis is not scientific

Bargain

I managed to renew my annual season ticket yesterday on the way home from work.  This is pretty good as i've saved the best part of £400 as the ticket price goes up a day later to £3406.  Bastards!  The whole process did amuse me though.  When the figure of £3046 popped up on the till I sarcastically said "what a bargain", the cockney (Kent) git behind the counter actually laughed.  The cheek of the man.  It did amuse me though.

Lazy girl

If it wasn't tor the fact that she was super greedy and always wanting food she'd live on here.

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It's a little foggy out there.

The view from my street and of the river Thames from London Bridge.

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And now this starts

7 hours to go and now some sort of alarm has started up in the office.  Neenoor, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr, neenorr.

I think it'll drive me insane.

The coldest December on record...

...or at least my records (since 2004).
The average maximum London temperature in December was 2.65 degrees
Celcius the previous low was 6.35. If we look at the average lowest
temperature during December we get -1.03, the next lowest low is a
balmy 2.71 in 2009.
I've also got some historic data going back to 1959. The coldest max
in this period was indeed 2010, however the coldest average min was
back in 1981 -0.6.
I'm the only member of my team in today / tomorrow so expect more of
the same as i've only been in for 30 minutes and am already bored.

Wimp

I was toying with the idea of not shaving for work tomorrow seeing as i'll be the only one that's in from my team. I've not shaved since last Thursday morning which isn't unusual but if I continued to not shave till the 4th till the next time I need to go in it would be a record since I started shaving.

Needless to say i'm a wimp so shaved this evening. I reckon I could have had a full Brian Blessed by new years if I'd have kept it up. Wimp.

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Pretty sure they have maps in Morocco

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-12082905

Not that that would help, but i'm sure he could have bought a map at a petrol station.

Doh

Bath time

Biscuit keeping an eye on things whilst I'm having a bath.

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