Friday at last and a special Friday but more on that later. This is first time all week that I have been able to come onto the computer in a relaxed frame of mind and actually dedicate a few hours to this blog. There is plenty of news and although an official announcement is not to be made until after the weekend, I feel I should let my dedicated and loyal blog readership know. I have been offered a new job. The details will come later but I can confirm my final day for my current employer will be Friday 5th September. (Three weeks today). A full explanation will appear in due course over on my work log but the for the time being, all I can say is I’m very excited and also just a little apprehensive. At times, I feel I am dreaming and it is not really happening. The news was confirmed in a phone call around 7.20pm on Tuesday 5th August (I had taken the day off to go to North London). However, I did not tell my family until Saturday (hoping that by then I would have the contract in my hand). Sure, it does sound rather silly for me to be telling my closest friends and select few work colleagues and even my personal trainer in the gym. That is how it panned out, never mind. The main thing is I am off to a new job, a fresh start, a clean slate and new challenge. An extremely busy week in the office and quite a lot of things going on outside of work. I had my third fitness test this evening at the gym. However, instead of on the treadmill as my previous tests, I used the bike. As expected this adversely affected my result and I have gone from a Superb fitness rating back down to Good. (Exactly the same score when I had my first test back in April). However, my personal trainer, Matt, explained that changing machine would affect my score because you have to keep a steady speed of around 70-75 rpm, which is difficult. I was slightly disappointed but it has given me the big motivation to push myself harder on the cardio programme, in fact, I have improved my cardio programme now. From ten minutes to fifteen minutes on the bike and pushed up the speed on my run by one kilometre on each of the steps. The cost in time, goes to the rowing machine which is reduced down to five minutes with a target of one thousand metres.

What are my weekend plans? Not a lot really, until I got a text as I left work this evening and got a text from Ryan asking me to give him a call. I had completely forgotten that Ryan and invited me over to his house for a small barbeque with friends tomorrow night. I explained that I was off to the gym and would call him later to confirm the plans, he could pick me up at ten past four (yes I know very precise) and that I could crash over at his place. We also needed to confirm plans for the Bournemouth weekend. I thought I was going to have a quiet weekend at home, watching football, the Olympics and generally lounging about. That would soon change. Of course there is the Sunday morning trip to the gym but I always want to get a few items in the garage onto eBay and also do some sorting out of junk I have gathered over the past few months. The best part is I have longer than everyone thinks to get these things sorted. More to be revealed before the weekend is out.