As I was getting changed in the gym, the iconic world famous theme tune came on. Any One Can Fall In Love (can they?). I was missing my favourite soap and would have to catch it on BBC3 at 10pm. The reason I was at the gym so late in the evening? Well I did not leave work until 6pm, as I had quite a bit of work to get done and then didn’t get to the gym until way after 6.30pm and just finished my workout a few minutes before the magic time of 7.30pm. Oh and yes there is a small television in the changing rooms. It usually has The Weakest Link on as I arrive to get changed at my usual time of around 5.30pm. Well you know your gym programme is designed for weaklings when your best mate, sends you an e-mail with the following.

Now there was the Square Of Death, from late last July part of my circuit training with Chris and his football team. But that seems rather play school in comparison to “The Skull Crusher”. To explain in detail, I had a direct quote from Pav, sent yesterday afternoon: “The Skull Crusher is basically lying on your back on a bench and using a barbell bar and doing slow movements back and forth from your arms to your forehead”. I will try and get down to Pav’s gym or get him over to Cannon’s (soon to be Nuffield Wellbeing Centre) and put a video of the Skull Crusher in action on YouTube. My gym resistance programme is rather tame in comparison but you have to compare athlete with athlete. I am starting from a very very very very very very low starting point, where as Pav is already in good shape already. I would say his general fitness is quite good already, so he is just topping up on the muscles. Where as I need to double (if not treble) my calorie intake to get anywhere near the amount of bulk to then shape into the right place!

I filled up my car with diesel for the first time since I moved in, yesterday evening after work. Yes, over a month since my last visit to a petrol station and in that time I have done two trips back home to Wycombe and one trip to Thame for a piano lesson. Those that do not know, I tend to drive around until I am running on fumes. I am not exaggerating, I have even been known to drive around for miles and miles with the fuel warning light on. Ironically, the price of diesel back in September 2005, is still cheaper than it is now, even though only by a few pence. I even joined a dedicated Group on Facebook for those people like me, who “Regularly drive around with the fuel gauge on red!”. Personally I believe it is a macho man thing, you rarely see girls taking part in such stupidity. However, the way I see it, you’ve made for the fuel, might as well make use of every last drop. Plus, with modern motors with so much computer technology on board, it gives you the range you have left. Even when that goes down to 0, you are running on reserve and have at least twenty, even thirty miles you can get away with. When I drove to Portsmouth from Wycombe with my sisters in January this year, I used my TomTom to find the nearest petrol station, even though my sister Natalie was getting very panicky at the time. Come on, it is all part of the fun, the drive would not be exciting if you did not have to search for a BP garage to get the fuel. What else have I been up to this week? Well Tuesday, my non-gym night, I had a TV marathon (having left the PC on all day to get all the shows for me). I watch The Big Bang Theory, followed closely by Chuck. Then after a break for dinner and Eastenders, it was full steam ahead for The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It was the best episode to date and my second favourite character after Cameron is now former FBI Agent, James Ellison. A great episode and then Heroes came along to match it. Why are the flash back episodes, always the best? A perfect evening in front of the PC! Apart from that I have not been up to much really, been going to the gym as per normal and work has been good, although quite hectic at the start of the week. Both Dave and Bhavna have become addicted to the DVDs they were sent through the post and received on Tuesday morning. Dave cleared Thursday, his day off to watch the show. It must have looked great on his television. Dave text me to say he was loving Heroes and it was another ‘thing’ I have got him into after Facebook in July 2007 and then BBC 1Xtra in November of the same year. Bhavna, meanwhile on the other hand has been watching episodes like they were crack cocaine! She is on episode seven already and there are no signs of her slowly down. I may have to post up series two before the end of next week. Plan for the weekend, well I was hoping to go to Bicester Village with a friend but have not heard from them yet. Although for the record I have left them a voicemail over an hour ago. Not much else planned really, I am having a quiet weekend again. Next weekend I am back home for my birthday (actually going home on Thursday night) before coming back to work and then turning around and heading back to Wycombe). I am watching Children In Need on BBC1 at the moment. Unlike last year, I have resisted the urge to go on Digital Spy forum and watch the performances of the presenters (particularly Tel) get slated. The show has not been as good as in previous years but there is still the BBC News readers to come. All guys need a place to escape. For some it is the shed, for others it is the golf course or even gym. For Pav, it is his precious basement. Somewhere he can go, listen to his music, play his latest set before burning a CD for a night out and go online on the PC. There is only one rule.