Feeling Crabby

The oppression the heat is bringing here at the moment is almost unbearable. You see the problem with heat in the UK is that is ordinarily associated with humidity, and so whilst I don't mind temperatures of 30 + degrees whilst I'm sitting on a sun lounger in Greece sipping a dry martini and lemonade with the warm DRY air wafting around me, doing the same here in equivalent climatological situation is akin to having all the life sucked out of you.

As a consequence of which it takes me the best part of all morning to decide if I should go the to the gym or not, and eventually I decide that much as I'd rather not I better had since I slip up leads to another and so on.

So I get Phil to drop me off and I set about trying to do my usual routine but much as I try I fail at keeping to the minimum amount of time I've been running (falling short a couple of minutes or so) and I put this down to the simple idea that I might as well have been in a sauna and trying to complete a marathon. It was just too hot to keep going, and I wasn't the only one complaining - even the super fit people there were grumbling that they were finding everything much more hard work than it should have been.

I do eventually get through it though and have a brief chat with one of the gym bods to get them to explain to me some of the gadgetry on my heart monitor wrist strap, and it appears that although I didn't burn off as many calories today the % of fat I got rid of was higher. So maybe it might be worth reducing my intensity a bit as my main aim at the moment is to reduce the size of my fat cells - and I can only go about that by doing more fat burning stuff (so working at a lower intensity but for longer). I may well give it a try next week and see how I get along.

When Phil picks me up from the gym we do a quick shop at tesco to pick up some bits that I need for lunch - today I'm having Crab Cobb Salad and while I was a little dubious about eating it (I think I've had crab meat about 3 times in my life) the combination of blue cheese, bacon bits, crab and salad was in fact remarkably nice and I think the recipe is definitely a keeper.

The remainder of the day is spent doing very little indeed (well, it is still too hot to do anything of use), except perhaps pondering on the fact as to why Sedgewick has developed a very odd body shape over the past few days - I think he must have a blocked tube somewhere along the line because he just keeps getting bigger and bigger and is now looking a bit like a ¬, with his belly drooping downwards so much so that his head is about 2 cms above the bottom of his belly, which is dragging across the bottom of the tank. Very strange, but I doubt there is much we can do about it.

And I guess the same could be said for our server, which hosts all of our blogs and websites because it decided to die in the afternoon. No lights, no nothing, completely knackered. We reckon it might be the PSU so we've ordered a new one which will take a couple of days to get here, but who knows if all the data is still intact - we'll just have to wait and see.

Posted by Abi on the June 11, 2006 9:33 PM