The company is expanding into the building next door. So I’m being moved from my current location in the main build on the 1st floor up to ‘the gods’ on the 4th floor in the new building.
So in a slight case of déjà vu I’m pack all my stuff into labelled crates to be moved over the weekend. I can’t help thinking about the last time I was in an office move, how long it took to find all our stuff and of course what happened to that company only a few short months later! At least this time I won’t be in surgery when it happens.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Tour Du Mont Blanc
In a couple of weeks I’m off on holiday on a trip to the alps.
I think my leg is pretty good now so I’m going for a walk around Mont Blanc. It’s quite a famous route called the ‘tour du Mont Blanc'. I shall be spending 10 days walking in a huge loop in the mountains around the mighty Mont Blanc. It’s up to an altitude of 2,665m (8,743 ft). It circles the whole Mont Blanc Massif covering a distance of roughly 170 km with 10 km of ascent and passes through parts of Switzerland, Italy and France.
I’ll have to remember to take my camera and hopefully a sun hat!
I think my leg is pretty good now so I’m going for a walk around Mont Blanc. It’s quite a famous route called the ‘tour du Mont Blanc'. I shall be spending 10 days walking in a huge loop in the mountains around the mighty Mont Blanc. It’s up to an altitude of 2,665m (8,743 ft). It circles the whole Mont Blanc Massif covering a distance of roughly 170 km with 10 km of ascent and passes through parts of Switzerland, Italy and France.
I’ll have to remember to take my camera and hopefully a sun hat!
Gym training knee update
I’m still going to see the personal trainer every other week. The sessions are now mainly about continuing to build up core stability, increasing my endurance and increasing my general strength.
Andy, the trainer, says the goal is to ‘get the whole body synchronized so the body’s strength and flexibility can move and control the body in balance’. I have a sneaking idea this means that we are going to start using the Chin-Up/Dip machine which has been lurking in the corner of the gym the whole time.
Also we started something called VO2 max training which is 4 lots of 500m rowing, in 2 mins each, with 15 v sit-ups in-between. This is well hard and I go bright red and can’t yet do a full v sit-up (from lying flat to sitting up with you knee touching your chest)
Still I think its doing me good as I’m running a bit again, 10 minutes without getting out of breath.
The Knee or rather the leg aches off and on about half the time but for normal day to day stuff its fine. I can run up stairs and jump around a fair bit (well lot when Rage Against the Machine is on). Crouching down is still a bit tricky and it
makes some weird noises a bit like someone crumpling up a crisp packet!
Andy, the trainer, says the goal is to ‘get the whole body synchronized so the body’s strength and flexibility can move and control the body in balance’. I have a sneaking idea this means that we are going to start using the Chin-Up/Dip machine which has been lurking in the corner of the gym the whole time.
Also we started something called VO2 max training which is 4 lots of 500m rowing, in 2 mins each, with 15 v sit-ups in-between. This is well hard and I go bright red and can’t yet do a full v sit-up (from lying flat to sitting up with you knee touching your chest)
Still I think its doing me good as I’m running a bit again, 10 minutes without getting out of breath.
The Knee or rather the leg aches off and on about half the time but for normal day to day stuff its fine. I can run up stairs and jump around a fair bit (well lot when Rage Against the Machine is on). Crouching down is still a bit tricky and it
makes some weird noises a bit like someone crumpling up a crisp packet!
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
All quite on the home front
Well perhaps its not the best time to be trying to sell a flat. With the news being full of reports about a coming recession and how hard it is to get a mortgage these days.
After the drama of the first week, the salesman at the estate agent got suddenly fired (I'm now being looked after by the branch manager, mainly I think, because she is the only person there!), there were a couple of viewings and a visit from the energy efficient auditor (you have to have an energy efficiency certification in the home information pack), it has all gone very quite.
The agent says it will pick up and that it was only quite due to the bank holiday.
So I've stopped looking for the time being as I don't fancy being in the position of finding somewhere I really want but having to lose it because I have to sell my place first.
After the drama of the first week, the salesman at the estate agent got suddenly fired (I'm now being looked after by the branch manager, mainly I think, because she is the only person there!), there were a couple of viewings and a visit from the energy efficient auditor (you have to have an energy efficiency certification in the home information pack), it has all gone very quite.
The agent says it will pick up and that it was only quite due to the bank holiday.
So I've stopped looking for the time being as I don't fancy being in the position of finding somewhere I really want but having to lose it because I have to sell my place first.
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