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It’s been months since I last posted, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that I’d killed the blog off, not really I just haven’t had a lot to say.
I’m busy studying for another exam, ISCW this time, part of the CCNP train. I’m thinking I’ll do the CCNP and then move on, maybe upwards to CCIE, or I might diversify and pick up some learning for another vendor, could be Microsoft, although their new certification structure is confusing.
I set up a wiki for the techie stuff that people apparently didn’t want to see here. I’ll probably still mention stuff here, but the guts of things will go there. Feel free to peruse and/or contribute, it’s just a toy really.
I’m still commuting to Bristol every day. It’s not so much fun now with something like 13 miles of the M4 cut down to 50mph, and much of that enforced with average speed cameras. I swear those things make driving more dangerous. But I enjoy the job and it’s good people, so worth it I suppose.
If you had been following my weight loss campaign you might have noticed the graph disappear. I have fallen off the wagon, big style. Just can’t get motivated for it at the moment, i guess I need to find some motivation somewhere, be that some untapped internal reservoir or from an external source, I don’t know.
I also bought a Playstation 3, it was bound to happen eventually. But I have noticed today that it’s been something like 2 months since I played a game on the XBox 360, and probably a month since I did so on the PS3. I guess I’m lacking motivation to play games too.
So, that’s it for the update. See you in another few months.
 On the 22nd May I took and passed the Check Point Certified Security Expert exam. That was one that had been hanging around my neck for about 18 months and I kept putting it off because I wasn’t looking forward to doing it and I preferred to do Cisco exams because they are worth something to me financially. However the fact that this one was hanging around kept distracting me.
So now it’s done, passed with 97% (I don’t know where the other 3% went) in about 15 minutes. The girl at the reception desk was impressed by my speed.
The logo to the right is one that I’m allowed to use now to show that I’ve passed the exam and a attained that level of check point knowledge. Isn’t it fantastic? I’m going to use it EVERYWHERE! All my email signatures, I’ll get some business cards, I’ll even get it tattooed on my forehead!
Okay, maybe I go too far, but it is a little bit naff eh?
OMG! AN UPDATE!
Perhaps they read my last post and thought “ey up, he’s got a point you know”, or perhaps they didn’t, but there’s a new logo!
It’s better than the old one.
Wii Fit that is. On Friday I had acheived one of my major mile stones in this weight loss kick – I had dropped below 150kg so I could get a Wii Fit. Of course when I got the Wii Fit on Saturday and got home I had put some weight on and was over the 150kg lim – poo!
I know some people will tell me that the Wii Fit is a waste of money, that it’s rubbish and faddish, but it was a goal and I think that I really need to honour any goals that I set myself, however rubbish.
Honestly I’m not too worried about putting that little bit of weight on. Friday mornings (when I weigh in) are the weight low point of the week, so I’m going to put some on by a Saturday evening, expecially if I make my weekly takeaway a pizza on the Friday night. I’m sure that by the end of this week I’ll be fine and will be wondering why I bought the Wii Fit.
So the next target is 145kg, I’m allowed to buy myself a CD or DVD when I get there. When I get to 140kg I’ll be allowed to buy a new game. Perhaps when I get to 100kg I’ll use that as an excuse to buy a PS3 
So, I’m now two months into this weght-loss kick, seems to be going ok – I’ve lost 10 kilos, clothes are looser, and the graph is still on a downward trend.
This afternoon I go for an initial consultation at the recreation centre in Bridgend for excercise on referral. My doctor has referred me to them, which is slightly concerning, but on the other hand I’m willling to take any help I can get. I’m led to believe I’ll get a free gym membership and some kind of personal trainer assistance. If that is so and I manage to keep interested in it long enough then it’ll be a useful thing, but I know that I’m not likely to stay interested, I get bored easy.
In other news, after 3 years in my flat I finally have a nice sofa and armchair. Up until now I’ve had an old sofa bed that was only ever designed for occaisional use, and an ikea rocking chair. I went out just after Christmas and ordered a 3 seater (officially 2.5 seater) sofa and an armchair, they got delivered today after being delayed by the French port blockades.
I loved that the delivery guys were to take away the old sofa bed but didn’t want to have to carry anything downstairs that they didn’t have to – the cushions from the sofa bed and the wrapping from the new stuff just got thrown out of my 2nd floor (some might call them 3rd floor since there are two flats below mine) french doors, and destroyed a couple of shrubberies 
I am going to have a good sit down this evening.
I was getting a little bored with the old site layout, and was feeling constrained by the single sidebar – the sidebar took up more vertical space than my posts! So I have picked a new theme for the blog.
I’m very happy with the result. It’s a three-column theme so I now have two sidebars to spread out in, and it supports threading in comments, so when you comment and I reply, it gets wonderfully nested and stuff!
Still a little tweaking to do, might add some header images to the first one I could lay my hands on. It’s a photo of Mumbles Head taken from the mumbles road. I think it was the first photo that I took with my Fuji camera.
I grew up in Swansea and spent many a weekend cycling along the front between Mumbles (where I could get an ice cream) and the marina (where I could also get an ice cream) at the other end of Swansea Bay. After we moved to Llanelli I didn’t cycle so much, but kept on eating that ice cream!
So this is how the site will look for a while, how long is anybody’s guess – either I’ll get bored of it really quickly and change it again, or I’ll like it enough to get lazy. Time will tell.
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Now this is rare - my reserved train seat has a table! 
