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Work has fallen apart and I won’t bother going into any details. But I’m working overtime tomorrow, so the extra money would be good.

Started using the robot hoover tonight and it’s doing the job pretty well. Have taken some videos and will edit it, but as I don’t have time tonight and all day tomorrow (as I’ll be at work) I think it will be at least this Sunday where I can edit and post the video.

Best of luck to Lisa & Daniel who are going to tour the world for 6 months or more, with the 1st flight out of London tomorrow afternoon, heading to New York!

Need an early night… have to get up early tomorrow!

Photos of the Robot Hoover is now online.

No review yet as I need to get it charged up first, so stay tuned for tomorrow!

Work this evening was easy… no reported problems - yay!

Not long till the weekend…

The robot vaccum arrived today! However I cant use it yet as I am working late tonight. Still, I can charge it up here so it will be ready by tomorrow.
Will post a review later… .

The induction at the gym this morning went well. The guy took our details, our weight, height, blood pressure, etc and worked out a suitable workout programme for us.

My stats are:

Weight: 90.3kg (14.22 stones)

Height: 181cm (1.81m, 5.9″)

Body Fat: 29.6% (26.8kg)

Blood Pressure: 128/66

Resting Heat Rate (RHR): 62

Hmm, so from the stats, I’m slightly overweight. But a good blood pressure I was told.

Our workout programme is being sorted out on a paper which we should be able to pick up tomorrow (if they are open on Bank Holiday, need to find out) and start doing it 3 times a week (Mon, Wed & Fri) with swimming on Sat or Sun.

We’re looking forward to it.

Yesterday, we went to the city for some shopping for clothes & other stuff. Topped up my car and made our way to the gym.

One of our gym membership includes unlimited use of the swimming pool, steam room and also sauna room. And that’s where we went yesterday.

It was great! No kids around. Very few people around (about 5 other people at most). Much, much better than the public swimming pool! We felt much more relaxed. We’re sure we will be going to use it more often, perhaps once every weekend.

Today at 10am is our induction at the gym, so we better get ready then.

Today, I celebrated my birthday by going to work. Boo.

However it was not too bad… at 10am, I drive to Waitrose with a workmate to buy some cakes to give away in the ITS dept. As soon as I put it out, it was pretty taken up quickly.

Then we walked to the city to check out the new building to se what sort of work are needed to be done before the opening in Sept. And from what I can see,  they do need to work harder to finish it on time as it’s still not done. :/ However to make things more fair, the first two top floors are done and just requires some computers connecting up, but the ground floor and 1st floors are the important bit of the whole building and they are still doing it. We are going back there next week with our stuff. Should be an interesting week next week.

We then headed back to work. I emailed my boss to see if I can have the trest of the afternoon off and he said yes. So I finished work early and went out for dinner with the missus. It was lovely.

Got some stuff from Tesco before hading home to relax.

I got the following:

* Perfume from the missus

* £20 from missus’ parents

* £15 gift voucher from my sister and her b/f, including Venus Flytrap plant

Still waiting for the present from my mum and whoever out there.

I also got something for myself… a cool Robot Vacuum Cleaner :D Yeah, I’m a gadget freak…

NCIS is on tonight!

So today is the last day of my whole year and tomorrow will be yet another year. Yep, tomorrow is my birthday… and I am working! :/

At least I got some cards from friends and a pressie from my sister.

I feel old.

First session at the gym went well. Felt much more comfortable than the local gym we used to go before. Going to make an habit of going there three times a week and see how it’s progressing.

Work was okay. This week is enrollments so we saw loads of students applying for courses. Only a couples of weeks till the start of the term. Then we need a holiday! Still have not decided where to go, tho.

2 days till my birthday.

So tomorrow is our first day at the gym.

After work today, we went shopping at JJB Sports to buy new trainers and long pants - as my old trainers has been pretty worn out.

Only need to do tomorrow morning is to find a T-shirt to wear for the gym. And some bottled water.

Which mean we am going to have an early night as I know we will be exhausted after the gym!

Went to the gym in Norwich and we’re now a member. Of course we haggled. The joining fee is £25 per person which includes a wrist strap with our ID in it so we can use it to enter the gym, our locker, etc and of course a “welcome pack” bag with some freebies in there and a towel. They refused to give it to us for free so we haggled it down to £15 each. Better than nothing.

We start this Wed with the induction this Sat to outline our fitness programme and go from there.

Looking forward to it.

In other news, work was ok. Not busy as I thought it would be. But it might be tomorrow where the new NAS servers arrives and we need to set them up.

Weather has been piss poor lately. Looking outside just now, it’s raining very heavy with some water puddles on our front garden and flowing of water along the road.

We haven’t had the chance to enjoy the Summer apart from the lovely weather we had when we was in Silverstone 2 weeks ago. And Sept is not far to go. Ugh.

By the way, Pot Hole is Evil. Help the car users - report it to your local council if you see them so they will fix it. Just came across one and it almost had my car wheel off! Reported it and they will look into it soon. They better cover it up soon or I’ll do a Top Gear style of repair work!

Today, I have been relaxing and catching up with TV show from my HDD recorder. I watched about 7 or 8 different TV shows between 8am and 1pm. Then I walked to the corner shop to get some bread for our lunch and watched more TV.

We had rain pretty all day, so didn’t bother going out.

Oh yeah and I have been going through my bank statement to see what changes I can make to save up more money, i.e. spreadsheet of incomings and outgoings and see which bits I can change/stop direct debit/standing order, etc and it was interesting to see where my money were going.

So, yeah, that’s our Sunday.

Tomorrow, the biggest work we will ever have starts at work. We have a new building in the middle of the city, which will be our new “National Academy for Finance”.

We have exactly 2 weeks to install, fit and set up all computers, wireless networking, servers, laptops, etc in that time period of 2 weeks until the door opens for the students to use.

I’ve looked at the building plans and it looks very nice. Lots of plasma screens, students will be using laptop for class use and when the class is done, they put the laptops on a docking trolley. The building will have all of the latest technology - IP phone, wireless networking, “future” furnishing, doors, etc etc. And we will be seeing them for the first time tomorrow.

So that would be an interesting 2 weeks! More on this later, I hope.

After work tomorrow, we will be re-joining the gym, but this time, it will be in Norwich as they have more equipments than our local gym. However it’s going to cost a bit more, but then we can afford it so hopefully it will be worth it. I’m looking forward to it a bit but I’m sure we will enjoy it when we starts.

Think I’m going to sort out the living room and then head to bed.