January 2009

Friday Fun – Wife Jokes

30 January 2009

Being the hardened internet denizen that I am, it’s not often I find traditional written jokes funny anymore. But the simplicity of these made me laugh: ———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— — My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked, ‘What’s on TV?’ I [...]

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Irritating Train Passengers

26 January 2009

My now usual early Monday morning commute started well. My back has been feeling much better over the weekend. I’d been able to get down the gym for the first time in a week, and had a personal training session with my weightlifting coach on Sunday where I’d lifted up to a very pleasing 50kg [...]

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Friday Fun – Cute Cat Videos

22 January 2009

When puppies attack cat! WPvideo 1.10 Parrot grooms Cat: WPvideo 1.10 How this cat doesn’t eat this bird is a mystery to me: WPvideo 1.10 On a side note, I had the credit card company phone up yesterday. It seems some little blighter has cloned my credit card and after a few very low price [...]

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It never rains, it pours… Disaster strikes!

19 January 2009

With 13 days to go before the Northern Masters and the last chance I have to qualify for the 2009 British Weighlifting Championships, I was looking forward to a desperately needed one on one PT session with my weight lifting coach, Mark from Crossfit Manchester. To be honest I’ve been beginning to think that I [...]

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Friday Fun – Fat Girls Have More Fun

16 January 2009

Well these girls seem to be enjoying themselves anyway. Or at least not taking themselves too seriously, which is a very good thing in my book (mostly work and family safe, it’s hard to actually see anything, if you know what I mean): WPvideo 1.10 This one’s hypnotic: WPvideo 1.10 And if you ever wondered [...]

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Snatches – It’s all going Pete Tong

14 January 2009

I should have realised that changing my snatch technique 3 weeks before the Northern Masters weight lifting competition was a bad idea. The changes I’ve made: Slightly wider stance. Feet angled out a little more. Knees pushed out more. The purpose of the changes is to provide a shorter path for the bar to rise [...]

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A weekend of Crossfit and stuff

11 January 2009

It’s Sunday night, which is the worst part of the week, as I’m preparing to go away again for the week. It’s a tough thing to do as I hate leaving my daughter as she’s great fun to be around. I had a personal training session at the gym today to work on my olympic [...]

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Friday Fun – A very impressive new game

8 January 2009

Written by a bloke on his own.  It looks simple, but is very clever, but then isn’t that always the way? It’s called Crayon Physics Deluxe

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The Fitest Man on Earth follows the Zone Diet

7 January 2009

Or that’s the claim.  Time magazine (which appears to be right behind Oprah in top most quoted “authoratative” sources) called Dean Karnazes possibly the fitest man on earth.  He’s an ultra distance runner, and has run such things as: “a 135-mile ultra-marathon across Death Valley in 120-degree temperatures and a marathon to the South Pole [...]

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Happy New Year

4 January 2009

I’ve had a few weeks off the blog over xmas and the new year. It’s strangely refreshing to take a break from the blog, but now that the new year is here, it’s time to resume with a quick catchup.  In the last 2 weeks I’ve: Discovered suggestion that BWLA appear to have upped the [...]

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