Now thats just plain rubbing it in!

On my way into work there is a section of road that has a ‘warning’ sign. Which is basically a big display screen attached to a speed camera. If you’re at or under the speed limit it displays your speed with a bright green ‘thank you’ displayed just above it. If your order the speed limit it displays your speed with a big red “check your speed” warning. Now it is a good idea. However it works all of the time even when there’s a huge traffic queue as there is most mornings. Trust me your patience isn’t helped in a traffic jam if the sign is displaying a big thank you for your speed of 2 miles per hour!

Well I managed to summon up my courage to get on the scales last night to see what affect my resolutions were having and to see if I had reached my first goal ( both Tap- dance and Grumpy have promised to give me money for every stone of weight I loose, nothing like bribery to keep you focused hey? ) I know I’m at least half way there for my first stone as I weight myself about a week and a half ago and I wanted to see if I was there yet. Grumpy had sounded a note of warning that with all the exercise I have been doing there was a chance I might have put on a pound or two from increasing muscle ( try using that as a excuse next time you put on weight. It’s just muscle, honest : - )

So I finally got on the scales waited a few moments for it to settle down ( we have digital scales by the way) I looked down and almost had a heart attack. The display was showing I had put all the weight back on plus more, I was probably very close to bursting into a rather unmanly show of tears when the display flicked again and showed I was actually down 3 stone, it then flicked again and increased by two stone, then flicked again and showed a decrease of six stone, followed by another flick etc, etc. I know I’m not the sharpest tool in the box sometimes but it didn’t take me that long to realise that there was a fairly good chance that the darn thing was broken. After getting Grumpy to try them, he too experienced the same result. So as their now broken their going in the bin and we’ll be shopping for new scales come Saturday.

It’s institute tonight. Hopefully there will be a few more people there tonight then last week. Especially as the uni students should be back. Ah to have the life of a student again.... Things were so much simpler then. It doesn’t seem like it was five years ago that I left. Times flies doesn’t it?

For those of you who haven’t noticed on the right hand side of the blog just under the list of who’s who and above the Labels I’ve added a rather cool map which shows the locations of the visitors here. If you are a new visitor, hello! Please feel free to leave comments (please).

Anyway if this map is correct (and I’m sure it is), I’m getting lots more visitors then I used to, from place like the USA, Portugal, South Africa and Australia! Hopefully this proves that my resolution to increase traffic is working and I have a feeling that a lot of it is down to the LDs blogs webring. So it looks like I made a good call there me thinks. When I first signed up for it, I was reminded of a line from Star trek;
“ Just think if this works, you’ll be able to annoy and bore hundreds of people you’ve never even met”

Later!