The office is so noisy

It's so hard concentrating when I'm in the office. I can't believe how noisy it can get in here. It's even worse now that Suf works here sitting opposite me doing all his phone support.

Also, Jan is still a wanker!

Listening to: The people in the bloody office
Back: Ok(ish)

Frickin Back

My back is killing me! It hasn't hurt like this in something like 3 or 4 months. I'm not sleeping well and just can't get comfortable. Its cos I went to a meeting in Banbury on Wednesday and it was already sore before that and its just got 10 times worse because of it. I pretty much spent 10 hours in a car.

Listening to: Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog
Back: Frickin sore

Ouch

Damn my back is sore today! I went out last night with the lads and it usually is sore after a night in the pubs not sitting properly and stuff but I didn't expect it to be this sore. It doesn't help that I've had to spend over 4 hours working today writing a demo dashboard for a customer visit on Wednesday. The customer is in Banbury so I'm not looking forward to that :-(

I got a new DVD player yesterday for using when I'm on the travellator. Its only a cheap thing but it does the job. The only feature I was concerned with was whether it resumed from its last play position after it had been turned off and it does so that's ok.

The budgies are loving their new branch and swings now. They take a while to get used to new things but once they are they can't get enough of them.

My broadband is still playing silly beggers. Since Thursday its disconnected 10 times that I've noticed. A few times were during games of online Fifa which really pisses me off. I've been play Gears of War online this afternoon with Ian and luckily it didn't disconnect once. That game is so good!

Right, time for some travellation before tea ;-)

Listening to: The Budgies
Back: Pretty sore

Gears Of War

I bought Gears Of War for the 360 this morning from PC World for only £35. I was gonna wait till after Xmas when I had completed a few more games but at that price I couldn't resist.

I've only gone through the first few check points so far but it's quality. Graphically it's amazing and the sound through my surround sound is pretty damn cool.

Listening to: Begger all
Back: Ok

Bloody BT Broadband

Over the past few months my broadband connection has developed a really annoying habit of disconnecting at least a few times a day if not more. When I working this isn't too much of a problem cos if it goes down then I just wait a minute for the router to reconnect. However, if I'm on Xbox Live it really pisses me off cos I don't care that I lose the game I'm on but it always goes against me as a "Did Not Finish" which is shit and means some people won't play against me!

Anyway, I report the problem to BT a few days ago and they called me this morning to say that they had done something at the exchange which should hopefully stabilise the connection. I have no faith in them whatsoever after all the shit when I first got upgraded to ADSL Max so I'll just have to wait and see. They are gonna call me again in a few days to see how its going.

The birdies still won't really go near the new branch very much or their new swings. We keep having to swap out the new swings for the old ones at night so that they will get in them to go to sleep!

England play Holland in a friendly game tonight. Hopefully they can't be as crap as they were in the last game against Croatia!

Listening to: Linkin Park - Meteora
Back: Okish

New toys for the budgies

We went to the pet centre at Adlington yesterday and bought some new toys for the the budgies and a stock pile of treats and chews for the mutt.

We got the budgies some new swings with bits of coloured wood on them cos Tweety seems obsessed with ragging the swings. We've only put one in so far cos we figure Yoshi might not go near the new one straight away and typically, Tweety hasn't been near it either. We also got them a Java branch with bits of rope and other things attached to it that they can chew. I pegged some millet spray to it and after a while Tweety went on it but Yoshi has only kinda gone near it but not really on it.

Tweety seems to be getting a bit better at going on our fingers but still seems wary of doing it unless you have food for him.

Listening to: The Budgies
Back: So, so

1st week of travellation

Everything was going great on the travellator (my name for the treadmill) until Wednesday lunch time when I tweaked my hamstring in my right leg. I think for someone who gets very little exercise I went a bit overboard. I was on it 3 times a day doing 5kph for 20 minutes a session. I've not been on it since but hopefully I'll be able to start again tomorrow and I can ease into it ;-)

I was hoping to be able to go out with the lads tonight but my back is so sore that I'll end up having a really shit weekend cos it will only get worse if I go out. I'll have to complete my first season on Fifa 07 and play on Need For Speed Underground instead.

Listening to: Alien Ant Farm - ANThology
Back: Bloody sore!

Started a new back rehab class

I went to a new back rehab class at the hospital today. It's supposed to be for an hour but I only lasted half an hour cos my back was really hurting. It's hurting like hell at the moment but hopefully I'll be fine by the morning.

The class just has you doing 1 minute stints on things like a treadmill, exercise bikes, stepper, gym ball, etc. It should be good exercise once my back has got used to it.

Also, the treadmill has been delivered and fitted today so I just need to sort out an LCD TV for the wall and a DVD player or something for it.

Listening to: Bugger all
Back: Sore as hell