It has just gone past 10pm, on Tuesday evening as I begin writing this episode. Been quite a busy week already and I am glad the weekend is in touching distance. I did not watch the Brit Awards (as I do every year) as I was watching this week’s episode of Heroes. Long story but more on that a bit later. I was in perfect time to see the Pet Shop Boys presented with a Lifetime Achievement, sorry Outstanding Contribution to Music Award and performed a medley of their greatest hits, including What Have I Done To Deserve This? with Lady Gaga taking place of the late great Dusty Springfield. (In a PDB (pre-blogging days) moment to share, I was outside the church in Henley for her funeral back in 1999).

Went to the Hogshead to watch the FA Cup Fourth Round replay on Sentanta. On the way from my flat, my friend Steve told me that Eduardo was starting as he had heard on the radio on his way up from Bournemouth. I was surprised, but looking forward to the game. We got to the pub with 7:49 on the clock and a lack of seats in the main area opposite the big projector screen. We ordered some food and drink and then took a table by one of the smaller LCD screens. Steve actually moved the table to the side, so we had a better view of the match. It was relatively quiet but the bar staff were overwhelmed and could not deal with the food orders. Luckily I cut in and beat another guy that had been queuing a while but as he had disappeared away, I placed my order. It was great to see Eduardo back and for me too, it was amazing to consider how much has happened in a year. I watched that Birmingham match on the sofa back at home. Although I felt I not in a position to mention it on the blog. The one picture which sticks in my mind from the Sky Sports coverage was a black guy with tread locks holding up the home shirt with Eduardo’s name and number, in almost respect to him during the course of the match. He was back and Arsenal looked like a different team. We were direct and our passing game was on song, we did not even slip out of third gear, we were that confident. It was just a matter of time before the first goal and then the floodgates opened.

There was a major delay to my television viewing on Tuesday night, in fact there was no TV that night. One show was on break (The Big Bang Theory) and both Chuck and Heroes were miles away from completing. In the end, I had to pause the torrents and switch to a RapidShare file download (a two part rar file) and the show landed around 9.30pm but too late to watch. I switched the Chuck torrent back on and it downloaded in no time but once again, it only completed around 10pm and once again I could not watch it and left it for Wednesday evening after my gym session. Chuck is outrageous as ever and good to see some regular guest appearances but hasn’t Jenny McCarthy aged! I can remember her presenting the US version of MTV’s Singled Out as if it was only yesterday. (It was actually over fourteen years ago). Heroes is slowly picking up and I am looking forward to next week already. UK viewers will start seeing the latest episodes from Monday night, 9pm on BBC2. Therefore I am three weeks already.

Not much planned for the weekend. Tomorrow is going to be a day to get various jobs done. Sunday I will go to the gym and get the food shopping done (undecided as to whether to go to Sainsbury’s or the big Tesco Extra store). Then I may head into London to meet up with a friend but that is still to be decided. Hoping that it is much more chilled out than last weekend when I was doing a lot of rushing around, particularly last Friday night when I got back to the flat at 2am.

What else has been happening this week? Not much really, work itself as been quite busy but slowly calming down, particularly towards the end of the week. I am looking forward to the long waited upgrade but perhaps should post more on that on the work log. I have decided to push my work in the gym up a level, in particular my cardio programme and I am keen to get back onto the rowing machine. I actually was back on the machine on Sunday morning after my weights. I thought I should just test the water and set the time for ten minutes and completed 1054m, not bad and I felt much much stronger than my last attempt, which would have been Thursday 24th September 2008. How do I remember? Because that was the last cardio session I did at my old gym, just outside Reading. I have signed up for the Bayer 10K Run, so there is no getting away from it. Hopefully more on that before the weekend is out.

I am off to go watch Frost/Nixon and then perhaps the Oliver Stone movie “W.” but maybe not in that order. So a political start to the weekend movie wise. Not sure what I will watch tomorrow night. Might save Cameron and Echo for the evening shift. Knowing my luck with the torrent sites and seeders it may be well into the night before they both land.