tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64887234655643884672024-02-21T22:38:39.786+00:00transperambulationBeing a manifestation of the transperambulation of pseudo-cosmic antimatter of legend.trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-46196602988499119092014-05-23T11:38:00.002+01:002014-05-23T11:38:18.125+01:00monacoMonaco Grand Prix this weekend.I'm hoping that it will be a good race. Monaco is notorious for being difficult to overtake at, but it might also reduce the gap between Mercedes and the other teams so it could be a good race. Or it could be quite processional.The BBC only has highlights, but I'll listen on the radio too.It's also a Bank Holiday weekend. My only real plan for the trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-86071501367637649372014-05-22T11:48:00.004+01:002014-05-22T11:48:52.660+01:00more minisChaika - The Coffin Princess
I tend to struggle with fantasy shows.I don't really know why this is. I mean, fundamentally, I'm a scientist, but having said that I've no real problem with science being bent to make cool stuff happen. Though to paraphrase Arthur C Clarke, any sufficiently advanced technology will seem like magic to the less advanced.I guess it's like the Marvel v's DC trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-21624931526824454172014-05-20T12:14:00.002+01:002014-05-20T12:14:49.538+01:00a little more... or less, as it wereI weighed in at 20 stone 8 pounds at the weekend, which is another 2 pound loss.I was a bit surprised by this - it was an okay week, but nothing special. I did hit my target for walking, but didn't really exceed it, and in terms of eating there were a few extra bits I ate that were a bit naughty. I therefore figured I'd stay about the same, so a 2 pound loss is good.I'm not really trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-61665390708628713812014-05-16T08:41:00.003+01:002014-05-16T08:41:49.777+01:00bryn who?More mini anime reviews today.
I'm doing my best to catch up with the ones I'd not watched from this season, but there's quite a few!Brynhildr in the Darkness
There's a particular type of show I have no easy terminology to summarise. A good example of it is Freezing and it sort of involves physically torturing or causing excess pain to characters. A bit like torture porn, but not trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-35098167986122253442014-05-15T08:40:00.002+01:002014-05-15T08:40:17.776+01:00that's a bit more like itI'd lost 4 pounds at this week's weigh in.I therefore now weigh 20 stone 10 pounds, which is good. If I can keep on the right track I should at least be safe in terms of the new clothes I've ordered for Canada.I've got all the clothes I've ordered so far and have only had one failure in terms of fitting, which are some boxer shorts. I will admit I'm a bit finicky when it comes to the trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-70364754667973600962014-05-13T10:50:00.002+01:002014-05-13T10:50:26.035+01:00eurovisionWell, it was Eurovision this last weekend.I kinda knew it was this weekend, but also kinda forgot about it. I dunno - it's difficult to explain.Anyway, the point is that this year it was actually quite good, in terms of both song content and the presentation. The Danes won it last year and they'd basically built the stage in an old dock in Copenhagen. And it was actually quite trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-12004628216231572552014-05-12T12:50:00.002+01:002014-05-12T12:50:21.161+01:00spanish gpI almost didn't watch the Spanish Grand Prix.Not because I didn't want to, but my PVR unfortunately had a funny turn when I started watching it on delay and I had to turn the box off and on. This obviously killed the recording, but because it was during the build-up stuff I started recording anew and did get to see the race proper.My PVR has been playing up for a little while, tbh. I trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-62823544024934983582014-05-09T15:35:00.002+01:002014-05-09T15:35:20.412+01:00spanish grand prixIt's the Spanish grand prix this weekend.Spain is where they do a lot of testing, but this seems to result in a relatively uninteresting race. I'm not sure why - I guess because they all know how to set their cars up perfectly for the track, so there's no variability to it?This weekend was going to be horribly busy, but a few things have dropped away. One of the more random was that trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-2846346852446741292014-05-08T09:09:00.001+01:002014-05-08T09:09:17.988+01:00so bad it's goodI've so far failed to watch all of the shows available this season on crunchyroll, because as previously discussed; there seem to be a lot more than usual. However, I have watched a few and am up to date with them, so I thought I'd do some reviews. These are broadly in reverse order - I have to say I've actually been a bit disappointed overall with the season and a lot of the shows trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-62055475895268242242014-05-07T10:44:00.002+01:002014-05-07T10:44:23.128+01:00scaryI got a bit of a shock on Sunday when I weighed in, as I'd actually gained 3 pounds, meaning I now weigh 21 stone.This obviously puts me above where I've been since my supposed recent push to try to lose a bit more weight. It also means I'm heavier than I have been for quite a while.I have a few excuses, but the honest truth is I've lost my way a bit. I've been feeling rather down if trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-74660736803887556142014-04-29T10:59:00.002+01:002014-04-29T10:59:57.450+01:00that's yer lotI'm just going to do the one post this week.Yesterday I was snowed under with stuff and tomorrow is my last day for the week, as I've mentioned before. It's actually two people's last day at the office tomorrow, so I'm sure we'll be going to the pub, which will probably eat up what spare time I have where I might write a blog post.One of these leavings is not a surprise as he is retiring, trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-91752946502694473262014-04-25T08:23:00.001+01:002014-04-25T08:23:15.288+01:00short weekWell, it's the end of the week already.I've actually got a strong of short weeks at the moment, as I'm taking Thursday and Friday off next week for my birthday. So my weeks will go:
4 day week (last week)
4 day week (this week)
3 day week (next week)
4 day week (week after)
Which is nice.I'm going to clean the flat this weekend, though I'm intending to do a spring clean over the 5 day trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-14629926737761878832014-04-24T08:48:00.002+01:002014-04-24T08:48:21.578+01:00spoilt for choiceWellp, the new season of anime is upon us and I have to confess I'm struggling a bit.Just recently I've been doing my best to tackle crunchyroll, and last season was the first ever where I've kept track with all the shows that interested me as they came out. I've not extended this beyond crunchyroll, but found the shows on there to be just about doable.Now, every year there are a chunk of trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-60430346561383231652014-04-23T09:24:00.000+01:002014-04-23T09:24:13.560+01:00chinese grand prixThe Chinese Grand Prix was a bit of a let-down, to be honest.China is usually good - it has a hairpin bend that's very wide that usually lends itself to lots of overtaking, but this time there was very little. I mean, it wasn't a bad race, it's just compared to Bahrain it wasn't all that much.Of course, that's the problem when you have an amazing race - it raises your expectations quite a trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-80872531465393317122014-04-22T11:39:00.002+01:002014-04-22T11:39:30.923+01:00wowserSo I weighed in on Monday, and it was not good news.I'd gained five pounds... taking me up to 20 stone 13 pounds.It was not a good weekend, generally. I wasn't too bad with my old problem of buying too much food, but I certainly wasn't lacking stuff to eat. Well, I say that - I'd actually had a couple of curries during the week (with the training course I felt the need). Howevertrismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-13133519580122267882014-04-17T08:52:00.002+01:002014-04-17T08:52:19.078+01:00easterWell, last day of the working week today as it's Easter.I must say it's kinda snuck up on me this year. I think a big part of that is because of the weather - it feels like it's rained continuously for almost an entire year, and the seasons have virtually disappeared, so it's almost weird now that it's actually spring-like. It feels kinda sudden, somehow.The training thing yesterday trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-72387795938648758382014-04-15T08:35:00.002+01:002014-04-15T08:35:46.418+01:00ironyI'm going on a training thing tomorrow for work.It's something to do with some new EU regulations, so I'm sure it will be highly exciting. It's in London, which makes the travelling painful, particularly as they've scheduled a start of 09:30. It does mean it ends early, though (about 3:30), but I'm obviously no going to blog.And speaking of work, I found this quite amusing a little trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-79718533422196180642014-04-14T11:11:00.000+01:002014-04-14T11:11:07.759+01:00fat ladI wrote the following last Friday, but failed to post it:No change in my weight last weekend, so I still weigh 20 stone 10 pounds.This was obviously a little disappointing, but not entirely surprising. As previously mentioned, I'd bought way too much food and this spilled over into the full weekend as well as the following weeks itself. In other words, I was eating pretty badly all trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-33712274014228251912014-04-09T08:42:00.002+01:002014-04-09T08:42:25.507+01:00civ 5I've been playing quite a lot of Civilization 5 recently.I got a bit pissed off with SimCity and have essentially stopped playing. They've now released the off-line "single player" (like I ever played multi-player!) version, but I've not actually played this yet. Hopefully it will fix the key issue, which is the ridiculously broken multi-city play, but I'm guessing not. I think trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-85723631022006264302014-04-08T12:09:00.002+01:002014-04-08T12:09:26.570+01:00bahrain grand prixI only actually watched the Bahrain grand prix last night.They've decided to make Bahrain a night race for some reason - I'm not quite sure why. With Singapore making it a night race has the advantage of putting the race in a timeframe more suitable for European audiences. It also works as a venue, being at night and in the middle of a city. However, Bahrain is a proper track trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-79753388001852423122014-04-07T08:54:00.000+01:002014-04-07T08:54:02.534+01:00more on interviewsSo, the other two interviews.The next interview was with another big defence company. Unfortunately, a similar issue occurred to some of the previous interviews - I'd only been told the big company name and only found out the particular division quite a way into the process. Indeed, in this case I'd actually only found out once the interview was set up, and if I'm totally honest it's trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-65703606916101741582014-04-04T09:04:00.002+01:002014-04-04T09:04:27.566+01:00saving on spectacles indeedI forgot to mention on the money front - as well as spending a huge amount on my car, with my days off I also went to the dentist, which cost me £45 for the 15 minutes it took (they did some x-rays, but also I'm now private), but I also got some new glasses.I've needed some new glasses for a while - the coating on my current pair has started to crack, which gets picked up in direct sunlight, but trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-28137240684887264122014-04-03T08:55:00.000+01:002014-04-03T08:55:01.230+01:00job interviewsSo I've had 5 job interviews in the last couple of weeks.The first was with a small training consultancy company based just outside Guildford. This proved to be a gigantic waste of my time. And I don't just mean it wasn't the job for me, but they had me undertake all sorts of exercises and hoop-jumping crap. These used up around two weekend's worth of my time. When I trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-39275287272103324622014-04-02T09:10:00.002+01:002014-04-02T09:10:08.085+01:00australian & malaysian gpsThe formula one season is under way!I used an exclamation point there as it seems like the last season only just finished. Indeed, the Australian Grand Prix was actually a few weeks ago, and we've also already had the Malaysian Grand Prix and Bahrain is next week!Of course there are some big changes this year - there's the whole new powerplant, with the V6 turbo engines and all sorts of trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6488723465564388467.post-33197963385367458432014-04-01T09:02:00.002+01:002014-04-01T09:02:15.835+01:00weightI mentioned this yesterday, but I unfortunately gained two pounds this last weigh in.I therefore now weigh 20 stone 10 pounds.I cannot confess to be surprised by this outcome. The last couple of weeks I have been eating quite badly. I've had quite a lot of shop-bought sandwiches and also lots of cakes and various other treats (I've been quite weak when it comes to cream eggs, which trismugistushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840963779992684032noreply@blogger.com0