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Well, much better mood now. Just one of those things where a bit more sleep helps make the world a better place. I think I am very highly tuned in such regard, it is only a matter of an hour or two’s sleep either way that can turn me from happy to fed up in a stroke.

My back is behaving better at the moment. Whilst it is still sore, the exercises do make a lot of difference. I think I need to make sure I get them done every day without fail, and perhaps expand them slightly. Found myself feeling somewhat sore last night, doing them made the difference instantly. Even quicker than say if I had taken something for it. Very impressed.

The weather here the past couple of days is fantastic it must be said, I am looking out of my window at work here out at the bluest sky I have seen in ages. All the trees are a vivid bright green, I just want to be out there! Well, I guess I could do with a bit of time in the garden tonight then. Going out to see DJ Format in town tonight, late one, but I won’t be drinking, so it won’t be too bad tomorrow.

Friday involved a visit to a physio. I’ve been having some bother with my back for a little while, just lower back pain and being a bit immobile at times, so was referred by my docs. Comforting to have been checked out and told there is nothing big wrong, just need to do some exercises to help make it more mobile. I also need to check out all places where I sit with computers and make them more ergonomic and suitable. My main monitor is now raised up quite a bit from where it was.

So I have been doing these exercises for two days now, and they are a bit tricky, because I am somewhat underagile it would appear. They do seem to be stretching me in the right places though, so all good.

I am up late here watching the election night coverage. We have had local council elections, I have used my democratic right to vote, and now am doing the other important part, waiting to see what my vote has got me. It looks like we may have a Labour council once more in Oxford, but that is not definite yet.

I’m in an odd mood tonight, I feel like a load of tennis balls being dropped into a drainpipe through a funnel. If you pour in too many too quickly, the balls get jammed. That is how I feel, I’ve got loads of thoughts and ideas I want to get down, or get done, and from having too many I am finding myself getting bogged down. My head was racing when I got in tonight, so much I wanted to get through, and then I just couldn’t. I’m a bit calmer now, and I have focused and got a couple of things done tonight. Cleaned up the right hand side of this site a little, and done a couple of other jobs. I am also going to try and do a few things at the weekend to get myself closer to where I want to be. I am hopefully going to be reading quite a bit of geek stuff over the next few weeks, to get myself a bit more learned. And more coding. And more writing. I just need to focus a bit more for a while, tune myself in. I’ll do it, it is just making that so.

I’ve found a couple of new podcasts that I need to give a go. The first is the Ricky Gervais video podcast. The free audio one was absolutely hilarious, and now he is doing the same for video. Don’t know how long it will be free, so have a look whilst you can.

The other is Penny Arcade , one of the angriest and funniest gaming-related sites around. They have finally given in to the podcast trend, and I am very curious to hear them.

There should be one more here, I found yesterday that another site I really like has started podcasting now. Can I remember who it was though? The answer is clearly no…

EDIT On my way home, I discovered the last one I wanted to try out. Giant Robot is an American magazine that is obsessed with all things from the far east, and of Asian-American origin. I always try to buy a copy when I find it (clearly I should subscribe, and I shall sort that soon). Well they now have a podcast, so I need to try that out.

Okay, so tonight I am off to see Logistics, a drum’n’bass act on Hospital Records. Couple of very good friends are in town tonight, T and B. I lived with T when I moved to Oxford for good, and B is his partner, and the very person who designed the logo above this post. T got me listening to various artists on Hospital, including the wonderous London Elektricity.

I am a little nervous about tonight, because I’m not used to seeing such acts in a proper venue. The normal place I listen to them is when I play golf.

I have Links 2004 for the Xbox, which is a cracking golf game. And it ended up a while ago that I figured the perfect soundtrack for playing golf was Hospital Records material. Far more fun than other choices, and the sheer pace of the music meant you were hurriedly pressing buttons, and could get through 18 holes in about 15-20 minutes. It turned golf into almost a twitch-reflex pastime for me.

So it seems vaguely strange to my brain to go and listen to such stuff in a club. I know this belies all logic, but that is what I am used to. I make take a putter to make me feel more at ease though.