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The best name ever, slightly biased of course, but seriously, apart from me, there is the channel “Dave” which just shows repeats of Top Gear – Fantastic and there is also a laptop table from Ikea called “Dave” must be a sign, all Dave’s needs can be covered by things called “Dave” (just need to find Dave beer and Dave curry….) Unless of course you are the current prime minister, in which case it is seemingly more important to ensure that as far as the royal family is concerned, they should be able to marry left footers, and that women can now take the top job even if there are other royal men alive (well done princess Anne you get promotion from 10th to 4th) *seriously* Who gives one? (apart from the idiot on TV right now, no not Nicholas Witchell, some other “expert”) Still maybe Gordon is taking 5 minutes out from preparing for the G20… (how ex-president Blair must be killing himself laughing now) So after a shaky start yesterday with an all to early wake up alarm from Iona (0650 – not impressed) we managed to eek out getting out of bed until around 0830 ish, with much bouncing and impatience to get on with the day from Iona and zero enthusiasm to move from Octavia or I…. (and 0650 was still an hours lie in from my normal week day start time for me!) So due to continued laziness on my part I didn’t bother going for the run I had planned (and it was mothers day) and so showered first, and then started the argument with Iona over what she would be wearing, as I was fighting I’s into her top I was presented with a recently pissed on stick, the one that has the ability to strike the fear right into the heart of any man, except me. This one finally showed us what we wanted, where in the past there has been a line, there was a cross, and all things being equal I’m going to be a dad again at the end of November. Boy is Iona in for a shock when she isn’t the centre of our world anymore. So to check the reading, another stick was used later in the day, the cross on this one not coming through as strongly as in the morning, is Octavia pregnant or not, another stick was used the next morning just to be really really sure, that was positive as well. Of course the first thing Octavia will have to do when she visits the doctors is piss on another stick! So fingers crossed now. No she doesn’t she told me today as we were swimming, going to be in for a shock then (all things being equal) Went to the doctors today with Octavia and Iona as she told her GP the good news, and it was really nice as the Doctor seemed genuinely pleased and gave very good advice… Avoid this, that and a few other things, other than that, whatever will be, will be. Exciting times, the more I think about it the more the list of things that will have to change in 2010 gets longer and longer, house, car(s) etc etc. So in a fit of pique I’ve decided I’m not going to subscribe to the “best a man can get” disposable over packaged and over priced crap that is peddled to men every day any more and I’m going to grow a beard. Only joking, one I can’t and two it would be a stupid colour, instead I’ve gone and purchased a double edged (DE) razor, so clearly the next steps will be an attempted shave with it tomorrow, a trip to A&E and later a humble pie posting on here swearing I’ll never leave my Mach3 blades…. ….except at the moment I’m out of blades and I begrudge paying over 10 quid for a pack of 8 blades (or more for the magic battery powered affair I have on my gym bag) and I’ve had enough of over packaging and blade inflation and all that crap, I was given a lesson in wet shaving thanks to Octavia a while ago and while it was great and taught me a better shave it seems like cheating to use one of the more modern less sharp and well made plastic mulit-bladed affairs on offer. So next stop will be to get a badger bristle brush, some soap and a load of bits of tissue all ready for dabbing on to the inevitable cuts, of course I also need to get some more Coral Skin food from Trumpers So here I am taking a break from working from home, to work in my local (ish) coffee republic which offers free wifi, average coffee and a medicore bite to eat, I’ve been using my conputer for 50 minutes and have 58 minutes of battery life left. According the Apple website I should be able to get up to five hours of life, now of course that will be with all radio’s off etc but I’m using the better battery life video card in my laptop, I’ve got the keyboard light off and the screen on the lowest setting, yes I’m using the WiFi but bluetooth is off and I still don’t get two hours of life, fucking joke. Wonder what the real world battery life of the 17″ MBP is? probably no where near the claimed eight hours (if it is, I might get one!) Have sent in my withdrawal notification…. So now training for 2010 I guess, leaves me with the London Triathlon at Olympic distance entered and that’s it for the year. Still seeing as I seem to be running at about 85% at the moment and not actually over my lurgy maybe it’s not such a bad thing. I’ve still not yet reached a conclusion over the Marathon, it was always a case of just getting around the course, but I was hoping to set a decent time, now with my continuing injury it certainly would be a case of “getting around”. Still with no time yet recorded for the distance, any time I did would be a PB If of course I do drop out I’m now in good company. and so with my fifth physio session this morning completed we come to the delicate subject of the London Marathon, something I’ve probably wanted to do since first seeing a piece about it on Blue Peter a very long time ago, this year I finally had my ballot place, and although I’d done my usual drop off of training in November and December come January I was feeling confident. I had four months to train, I had the kit, and I had (mostly) the knowledge, I altered my training to gradually build my run distances and times, I had a rough idea of a good route to run to get my longer runs done at the weekend without getting too bored of the scenery (out along the road, back along the river for a 12km lap) and was feeling motivated. However I’m sitting here writing this not having completed a run longer than 45 minutes since the start of February and having completed only 13 minutes of a 45 minute run pain free last week. Up until today I had considered that I still had a chance of completing the marathon, however today I’ve been advised that I’d be better off considering a half marathon within the same timeframe, but then I’ve also been told to see how it goes, so tomorrow will be a 45 minute (ish) run and then a longer run at the weekend, hopefully will go well, but as of now I’m not expecting to have to worry about getting to the start line for the FLM. 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