Good weekend

Friday night steak
Saturday night steak
Sunday Ikea and good sex
Now sat in my new chair under the window...I believe being sat under a window in the warm when the weather is shit outside is one of my favourite things in the world!!!!



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Why exercise is important

It's boring
It's hard work
It's easy to stop
You only do it for the feeling when you have finished
That's why it's important


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Good evening....

6km on the cross trainer, 100 stair press ups, 60sit ups, cheese on door step toast, beer, top gear

Experience report has all but stalled this week but I think I need a break from it....kind of over thinking it and getting bored!


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Mums painting

Not my best effort......

Colours are off
Form is bad
Rhs is blank




Mum willblike it just because I've painted it but ultimately.....it's shite!



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Just thoughts

She provides the shopping, cooking, baking, washing and social. I am grateful for these things. However, the things I value: clean house, looked after pets, well decorated house ate all lacking....I need to provoke a reaction in her and force action. This also includes taking away some of the things she does ie getting a wash on and deciding how the house should be worked upon. I need to take a hard look at myself and get myself in order!


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Bolt cleaned

Cleaned kids (snakes) tonight. This must become a weekly routine, h is good at the cleaning but she's shit at the motivating!!!!

Bolt went straight out of his bag and into his water bowl for a massive drink. H was right, it is amazing how he drinks, more worrying is that he went straight for a drink when he is stressed....it shows how poorly we have looked after him in the past few months!!! I must check his water daily.




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Early start

Got up early this morning and did 100 sit ups and 100 press ups. Came home from work and did 5km on the cross trainer whilst watching a bluetablepainting battle report....kind if made me want to make a eldar/dark eldar army...still have much to paint on the shelf though!!

Bought a couple of books today...simon scarrow and another mo hayder at lunch today with birthday waterstones vouchers.


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Sense of achievement and image change

Sense of achievement fairly high at the moment and image change is going reasonably well. My fitness regime is settling into place (I am now running 5km without stopping). Clothing remains the same and my hair is still shit but feeling a lot better about myself!!!

Little report:

Ice reports: behind schedule
Orks: behind schedule
Reading: good
Ice research: behind schedule
Bike lessons: going well. Three booked
House cleaning: poor
Golf: indifferent
House 'changing': slow
Wedding plans: winning h over
Buying a bike: alright


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Mums painting

Painted mums birthday picture tonight....started offs extremely badly but it kind of came together. The butterfly was supposed to be White but the overall painting needed some colour so the butterfly ended up blue!!!

Not as good as Helens heron but if you squint a bit it looks acceptable! I'll buy a frame tomorrow. If it looks shit in the frame then I'll have to it again
(not the right way up!)



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Hein Gerrick

This morning I spent £210 on motorcycle equipment. £160 on boots and £50 on gloves. The boots are twice as expensive as I had planned but the boots I got are extremely comfortable...I would much rather pay now snd get really good quality stuff rather than have to buy twice!


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Good advice!!!!

I do plan, or have ever had, lead at the point of a bayonet...but these rules are very useful for using elsewhere in life. As winters says himself, business is in no way shape or form comparable to war but I find the advice below very useful.....




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Arup: change of project

I have 11 weeks left on my arup placement and I think I'm in the process of changing projects.

I will be moved off kasc and move onto trumpington.

Kasc was very much calculation and analysis based. Trumpington will see me putting together scheme design stuff and a RIBA stage c report.....all very different from kasc!

This change in project will bode well for my presentation to directors in may. I will have seen arup the big machine mobilised on a massive job where I was doing detailed design...now I will see the tight knit arup team and work on a smaller conceptual design job.

Sense of achievement fairly high at the moment...though i did miss a planned 5pm run last night (not cool) will have to do one tonight rather than go to the pub, then might settle down to some painting (orks wont paint themselves!!!!)


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Books read whilst on placement

Chickenhawk
Micheal macintyre
Alan sugar
Roadside crosses
The day of triffids
Shantaram
The man who broke into auschwitz
Memoirs of lt winters

To date, hope to get over 10 in total before returning to icl on 9th June



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Presentation competition

Yesterday I won the ice region presentation competition. The prize is about £100 and I may have the opportunity to write up my experiences and have them published.

I only entered so it would look good on my review application but I had hopes for winning. The 3 judges unanimously decided that I should be the winner.

Papa smurf was there to watching presentations (nice to have an ally in the audience) and he has a meeting with Gareth this morning...nice to know heat 'plug' me to the MD today. Shouldn't have mentioned defects in my presentation and was quite unsettled by a question from the audience on differential settlement.
I was well prepared for the presentation and knew I wad there to win. However I was still very nervous before and during the presentation (papa smurf sees this as an advantage, as does h, but I'm not to sure.

Ivelearnt that presentations, even short ones, take a lot of preparation and you can never wing it. I will never live down the embarrassment of my presentation during the smsts course when I literally fell on my arse and made myself look like a tight tit!!!!


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Broke 1500!!!!

Officially broke 1500 sometime in the last few days!!!! Now on 1508 views since starting the blog....yes it's not viral and yes it's not very much and true most of the hits are probably from me but damn it someone somewhere is reading my shit!!!!!


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5km

5pm on the cross trainer without stopping this evening...feels quite good. The audio books definitely make a difference. Will think about converting it upto a round three miles.

Presentation to the ice tomorrow on geotechnics. Spent a whole day working on it in arups today (bloody good job too....I didn't realise last night how shit it was but now I'm slot happier with it!)

Bit of book time this evening and one more run through if the presentation. Three times on the tram tomorrow and then twice at lunch. Must remember to get a good luck at the venue before having to stand up in front of the crowd....relax, remember why your doing it...it's so you van say in your experience report that you. Actively participate in ice events and that I am professionally committed.


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Erm a day.....

I have done nothing all day..
Watched everton lose the semi final, watched the grand national, done no work on presentation or experience report.
Have enjoyed watching band of brothers though and did run 5km on the cross trainer without stopping...watched slot of Niro too.
Found a good blog as well...very good looking dipped miniatures...makes me kinda want to do a demon army. Must remember though, I am not making any more model purchases until 40k 6th edition is released


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London dump

I received an email today from g....it's funny how something so simple can lift your spirits. He is happy for me to do the presentation and says it will count well towards my civils. The stuff yesterday with the praise for w must be forgotten, I've got to stay focused on my objectives and ensure I provide for my family. Essentially that comes down to a few things:

Technical understanding
Integrity
Honesty
Able to communicate
Present 'items' in the right way
Present 'items' at the right time
Don't mince your words
Be prudent with praise (then it's valued)
Promise what you can deliver
Deliver what you have promised
Don't over estimate your own abilities
Accurately assess ability of others
Tackle a problem ad early ad possible...buys yourself time
Always present a professional image
Do not lower tousled to others
Don't get comfortable and smarmy




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Trap 2 update

Always imagine the shot you are going to hit.....must be part of the Pre-shot routine


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Trap two extension

Must practice the ball trick also


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Report from trap 2

After watching the masters at the weekend (and all of Monday) I'm getting back into my golf...the putter is set up in the living room and I've been to the range twice and pitch 'n' putt once. Range reminded me how important good practice is Ie not going with other people who are just plain distracting.....the problem is being able to translate the stuff on the range onto the stuff on the course. I will aim to play 'bogey golf'....one over for each hole, played sensibly from tee to green and then when on the green relying on endless practice to sink those all important putts. When I miss a putt I must plan and execute that little routine to ensure I don't scramble my brain and miss again.

Practice areas:

Off the tee
Middle irons(Inc off tee short holes)
Chips around the green
Bunker shots
Chip and run
Putting when off green
Putting
Planning a hole / aiming wisely
Remaining cool
Aiming to not loose a ball
Pre shot routine
Pre putting routine
Post putting routine
Glove etiquette
Correct clothing
Correct drinks and snacks
Regripp irons
Try out hybrids to replace 3 iron

More updates to come.....




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I really don't blog enough anymore!

Did 5pm on the cross trainer last night....felt pretty good, got into a bit of a rhythm but I'm pretty sure that thing will shake itself to bits soon!!!!!

Must work on geo presentation tonight and the rest of the week. Weekend is reserved for some serious progress on the experience report! Quite nervous about presentation next week....might make a bit of a dick of myself....mustn't lie either, never know what will get back to the team!


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Golf and cross trainer

Watched 5 hours of golf today from the masters last night....I didn't want bubba to win but he did deserve it after that recovery shot on 10

3.5 on the cross trainer also....feels good and is easier when listening to an audiobook / music on the iPhone.


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Lava bases...

Should the entire army have lava bases?

Works with the colour wheel as a good member of dakka dakka pointed out!






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Ork progress update: all skin!

Over the past two days I have painted every piece of ork skin in the army (apart from the biker arms that are not even undercoated!)

Pretty simple:

Orkhide foundation base coat (completed weeks ago)
P3 wurm green coat
Thakara green wash

Gives you something like this.....









One day to go until bank holiday and no trip to London tomorrow!

Jct training course over the past two days was pretty dull but I did get alot of painting done in the holiday and this afternoon due to the early finishes!

I would hopeto have this army finished before the release of 40k 6th sometime in the summer...no more purchases before 6th is released....but I am very tempted to get some kills kans for this death skullz army!


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Ork progress

Jct course
Stuck in hotel
Painting desk
Ork progress




Updates to the blog arnt a frequent as they should be!


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