Dull Week

Thursday is finally here marking the end of another week of death by PowerPoint. Final exam tomorrow morning and then jump on the train home. Frustrating though as with most collingwood courses it has been a three day course squeezed into 5 days with 0830 starts, an hour and a half for lunch and finished before four. Oh and as it is a navy course we were given Wednesday afternoon for personnel development. Hey ho only a 45 minute exam to do in the morning then I can head to the station.

Other than the course it has been a bit strange this week in the news. What with the pope resigning, North Korea conducting nuclear tests and half the population waking up and finding out that they had shergar for dinner. Mind you I have been feeling a bit horse recently, just thought it was a cold and not the lasagne. I really don't see what the fuss is about though as there are all these companies selling us strange meets such as alligator and ostrich what does it matter if there is a bit of horse in the burger it all adds flavour and is better than breadcrumbs or vegetables.

It will be good to get home and it is half term next week so no morning runs to the nursery, yippee. Just need to work out how to keep a 3 and a 4 year old entertained all week without going bankrupt. Gone are the days that we could have sent them out as chimney sweeps. Hopefully it will be dry and mild so I can take them on a picnic or down the beach.

Now the weather is getting milder I may try and venture out for a longer ride on the new bike. I have been on plenty of 8 mile rides but am itching to get out further and crack 30 or 40 miles to see if I can still do it. The new bike is much faster than my old one so as long as the hills are reasonable I should be fine.

Well another ramble over and roll on tomorrow when I go home to Debbie and the little ones.

A New Year

After the anticlimax of the Mayan prediction I thought I would leave my blog for a bit. However after a dreary day of lectures I thought maybe I should rekindle my efforts and as with every year make my vow to write more blogs. It seems, however that the Mayans may have been right, just a couple of months out. As you sit there reading this there is an asteroid hurtling towards us with a designation ending in 2012. The geeks in NASA reckon it will miss (fingers crossed) as it passes on the 15 Feb but it will pass close enough to take out a satellite or two. Lets just hope that they have their maths right. More importantly though if it is going to hit is there really any point in me sticking to my diet? It would be a real bummer if it hit as I would be spending my last few days at collinggrad rather than home where I belong.

Anyway enough rambling on about the apocalypse and back to reality. I must say this current course is really dragging and it must be the most boring course I have been on, at least they have coffee on tap which almost keeps me awake. Just wish I could find a face painter to paint eyeballs on my eyelids and then I could have a proper snooze.