Chris Carline: Personal Website

Opera 10 does a pretty good job of rendering this site (if it's still on? It's still on, right?)

I have been inordinately busy these past several months, and it has taken a four-day weekend for me to actually get around to posting anything.

I've still been twittering away in the meantime, mind you.

Anyway. I should probably mention all the stuff and things that have been happening in the meantime, but apparently it's all been redacted. YES.

It's accidentally on purpose I update there a lot more often than I do here.

There's an awful lot of stuff and things that are going on in my life at the moment. And this, whilst sometimes giving me a feeling of overwhelm-ment, is undoubtedly a good thing: it keeps me busy, pushes me hard and keeps me on my toes.

And those toes are going to be a-twitchin' even more than usual come the wee small hours of Tuesday morn.

I generally don't talk about Things Involving Work, but I really am quite excited about what'll be happening then; it's a big deal, and in it's own small (very small) way, it represents the culmination of something I've been working on for almost two and a half years (actually longer, but that's another story). Baby steps, for the most part, but ramping up exponentially these past few months.

We have the technology, and it's the allegorical equivalent of taking the Richter scale all the way to eleven.

Thus it's almost certainly doomed to obscurity and will be completely ignored. Which is fine. Sometimes being proud about something is enough -- even when the rest of the world remains resolutely unlit. Maybe one day I'll be able to talk about it. :-)

Anyway. Yesterday I was actually SNOWED IN, and had to work from home. This has never happened to me before, but rest assured it's a situation I'm in no hurry to repeat. I did manage to get the car to the edge of the village, but given the level of grip (or rather lack thereof) and general sense of impending doom, I elected to turn back. Which turned out to be a rather more edge-of-the-seat manoeuvre than I'd hitherto been accustomed.

Maybe one day I'll be able to talk about it.

Today, after two months of carefully watching my diet, eating healthily and generally not stuffing my gullet with cakes, snacks and two dinners, washed down with 6 pints of lager, I've just tried on a pair of my old 32" waist jeans (from less porky days)... and they fit!

As in, I can do them up. And sit down in them. And put things in the pockets! Truly marvellous!

Whilst I still have a few lbs to go before I'm genuinely back to my "fighting weight" (I'd be lying if I didn't say there is a little overspill, but I had far worse on my old, 'generous' 34" jeans before I started.

The goal is truly in sight now. Hurrah!

This blog post is brought to you by the Boots Meal Deal King Prawn Noodle Salad, Cheese and Onion Snack-a-Jacks and Diet Red Bull.

Oh, and about 400 pints* of Tesco Own-Brand Low Calorie American Ginger Ale, my beer-substitute.

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