My fitness regime came crashing to the ground after just two weeks of gym use. Tomorrow the work begins once more after a week in Tunisia followed by a week of slovenly behaviour.
This weekend has been frustrating, boring, relaxing and entertaining.
Frustrating: I was asked last week to find a way of creating a DVD that would be a compilation of video clips from a set of DVDs of Exeter City football matches. I admitted at the beginning that I had never done this before, but that it should be possible. Over the course of the next few days and several software downloads later it quickly became apparent that if the DVD was to be made, it would not be me making it. Therefore, the excellent
Rebecca Ramsden helped me out by giving me the number of a mate of hers who was able to help me out. Hopefully we shall be in business by the end of the week.
Boring: Due to having been away on holiday for ages, it was decided (mostly by me, I admit) that we would have an idle weekend of simply relaxing... this was achieved for the most part, but relaxing isn't half boring... normally I'd hope to play golf, but the weather was so appalling that even that wasn't really possible.
Relaxing: As stated before, it was a relaxing weekend. Due to the weather being so bad, I lounged sloth-like on the sofa, watching various sports on the miniscule TV that we are lumbered with whilst my huge one is in the shop getting fixed. This weekend's sporting highlights included the French Grand Prix, The French Open (golf) and the first One Day International between England and the West Indies. All very good and ideal fodder for the lounging sports fan.
Entertaining: Due to the sheer level of idleness, we were able to watch a couple of films that have been sitting in the pile for an age. Saturday night we were able to watch Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby starring Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen. I'd been leaving off watching it as I was going to copy it and wing it back to Amazon. However, it was encrypted beyond DVD Shrink's ability to back-up and so we watched it.. and I'm glad we did, cos it was hilarious. After it had finished I was on the computer and ordering a copy from play.com (who currently have a huge sale on, by the way). On Sunday it was the turn of Lucky Number Slevin. Another film I had modest hopes for, but was also a pleasant surprise. Quite a stylish film with a good twist that helps tie all the loose and confusing ends together. A bit like a Guy Ritchie wannabe movie with an American flavour, but was actually a rather fun film and well worth a good 3 to 4 stars out of 5.
So... that's the tale of the weekend. For this week I am hoping to get my car's huge dent repaired, for the DVD project to go off without a hitch and for my lovely big television to come back from the fixer uppers.
