Early bird

There have been no updates for a while; sorry for that. I'm still feeling P'd off at Blogger for deleting my last entry. Needless to say I'm heeding Alex's advice and writing this entry in another programme.

What's happened since last time?

1. I've had a haircut
2. I've played a bit of tennis
3. Arsenal lost to Man Utd

On the tennis side of things Gareth and I had a hit at half seven on Monday morning, in the rain. This was mentioned in a team email that was sent round by Dr Dave who must have seen us / been woken up by us in his house across the road. My ultimate aim is to get an email sent to every member (or a sign put up) just reminding everybody of the 'no play before 8.30' rule, which is another rule I can say I've broken. I don't think there can be many left to break. As it's getting brighter and brighter in the mornings now, hopefully my hitting can get earlier and earlier - if I can find someone who'll play.

More on the Manchester United game next week - once again I'm going to the Emirates with Alex and Carl (cheers for the ticket Al)....

Flirting with power

Just wrote a huge post on last night. Blogger, the piece of shit that it is, deleted the whole thing.

Briefly...

- I was dragged onto the dancefloor last night and danced with the chairman's wife last night (also mother of my ex-fiancee)
- I was commended for this by the Secretary.

This is now probably my worst blog post ever.

Another aeroplane dream

I had yet another dream last night concerning an aircraft.... and yet again it crashed! This time however I wasn't flying it, instead I was an engineer involved in its design and construction. The plane was a Soviet Tupolev TU-144 (the Russian Concorde). The dream centred around building the first prototype, which crashed on a busy motorway on its maiden flight.

I know, I'm weird

Bets for tomorrow

Another Friday night sat in by myself because everyone else is busy. The only thing I have to blog about is the bets I have on for tomorrow's IPL.

Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders: Matthew Hayden top Chennai batsman

Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians: Mumbai to win

I ended up evens today on the Bangalore v Punjab game. Pietersen out for a duck, again. Definitely the most expensive player due to marketing reasons only.

Wretched tennis form

I went for a run this morning before playing tennis with Gareth at 8. We played a set, which I lost 6-3. This continues my run of pretty unimpressive form, which goes like this:

v Loz lost 6-7
v Alex 4-4 (play suspended)
v Gareth lost 3-6
v Gareth lost 3-6

The 4-4 result against Alex is obviously the most impressive considering he is a regular 2nd / 1st team player at Lowlands plus a coach. Needless to say he would have beaten me 6-4 if we'd had time to complete the set.

Regarding the run I mentioned.... I am desperately unfit. I struggled to complete two laps of a very small block. Not good.

To finish off, here is a transcript of a conversation that happened at the tennis club between Tony (the bar manager), Gareth and myself:

Tony: Gareth, have you played tennis tonight?
Gareth: Yes.
Tony: You don't look like you broke a sweat. Look at him! [gestures towards me]

[all those within earshot look at me]

Tony: James... you used to be quite athletic. [pauses, waiting for me to acknowledge this. I give a nod, knowing where this conversation is going] You look TERRIBLE

Cheers Tony.

Wasting the sun

I have three days off now and the weather is set to be fantastic. I want to go outside and do something but everyone is at work or up north or revising (God, I hate that last excuse, yuck). I'm struggling to think of what I can do other than go out for a walk, which I will do at some point though obviously I want to do something else.

I've just texted Gareth to see if he fancies playing tennis tonight but I think he'll say no because of the United game.

Help.

Cold Turkey

Since Wednesday's indulgence I haven't been out, spare a cameo appearance I made for an hour late on Thursday after work. I haven't had any alcohol and to be honest I feel a lot better for it. The last few weeks (arguably months, arguably years) have been crazy. I haven't made up my mind whether I'll drink tonight if there's anything going on after I've finished work, but if I do it will definitely be either wine, gin or vodka (see Alex's last blog post about this, LOL) - I'm going to try to stay clear of beer for a bit.

Nothing else to say for the time being.