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Confession time…

February 6th, 2010

So, since the end of October I’ve been avoiding crisps and chocolate and I’ve been doing pretty well.

Eating chocolate at Christmas was allowed – as long as I was socialising with family, I took advantage of that. However there have been a couple of failings:

  • Early on I ate a McFlurry and two chocolate chip mini muffins
  • On Wednesday night this week I was working over night implementing a new website. At 7am a trolley of tea, coffee and biscuits arrived, sleep deprived and without even thinking I picked up a chocolate biscuit and put it in my mouth. I was literally horrified when I realised what I’d done and seriously considered spitting it out. But as I was in a room of people, at a bank, working, I decided I just had to swallow. I’m sorry I’ve let you down. It won’t happen again.

So, if you can forgive me perhaps we can move past this? On the plus side I did successfully implement the largest web project I’ve done to date (take a look www.barclays.co.uk) and I’ve not eaten a single crisp….

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Lent with a run up

November 8th, 2009

Recently I’ve noticed that I’ve been habitually eating crisps and chocolate, particularly at work and er at home, or travelling and sometimes when I’m out. As that covers pretty much all-of-the time I thought I should do something about it.

So here it is…

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End of the regular tweet, work, book, Josaka and life

August 8th, 2009

So after flirting with tweeting regularly and installing a clever plugin that automatically updated my blog with a weekly round up of my tweets I’ve accepted that this is lame way to maintain my (or any) blog and to that end I’ve stopped it this morning.

Instead I’ve decided to go back to the less-frequent-but-more-informative blogs actually written in one go by me rather than random 140 character mini-blogs all added together.

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Jim’s Tweet Week for 2009-08-04

August 4th, 2009
  • Nearly time to get the hire car…first time I’ll have driven since November! Then off to wedding party it up in Somerset! #

Jim’s Tweet Week for 2009-07-28

July 28th, 2009
  • As much free ice cream as you can eat. Thanks ben and jerry. #
  • I’ve eaten 6 ice creams. Enough to enter a competition for: a years supply of ice cream. Time for something savoury I think?! #

Jim’s Tweet Week for 2009-07-21

July 21st, 2009
  • I would have been watching MJ at the O2 tonight. Instead I’m watching him on ITV1 in a repeated interview. Life. #
  • Couple of quite post work drinks? I can’t even remember how many bottles of wine we got through. Bowling today. Hear me roar grrrrrrrrrr #
  • Bruised, tired and aching. What a great weekend it has been :) #

Jim’s Tweet Week for 2009-07-14

July 14th, 2009
  • Been crazy busy. I’ve missed you twitter. Trying to work out the perfect comment volume and length to get applause on question time. Lou … #
  • It’s been all about rodents, work and washing machines recently. Oh and Glasto, Wireless and Blur. Goodtimes, badtimes and dirty clothes. #

Jim’s Tweet Week for 2009-06-30

June 30th, 2009
  • “The druids all march along here. Well they don’t march, they walk” about an hour from glasto. Coach driver quote. #

Jim’s Tweet Week for 2009-06-23

June 23rd, 2009
  • Lack of updates. Fail. Ready for Glasto (sunshine?). Offered a gig with Madness, wedding anniversary (yesters), birthday meal (today). Phew. #
  • Carrying a box of wine through whitechapel. I’m pure class. #

Jim’s Tweet Week for 2009-06-16

June 16th, 2009
  • Bad news at work. The only solution: drink then gaucho. More champagne? #
  • You’ve got £20000 there’s a 67% chance you could double it. But a 43% chance you’ll lose it all. What do you do? Gamble or stick? #
  • I just realised that’s 110%. I’ll try again. #
  • You’ve got £20000 there’s a 57% chance you could double it. But a 43% chance you’ll lose it all. What do you do? Gamble or stick? #
  • Hungover. Need to write. Drank lots last night. I am proving quite poor at the not spending much money thing. #