Caught Up again

I feel like I've managed to finally catch up with all my ideas about what I want to do. This seems to happen periodically - everything will get in a big mess, then I finally decide to sort it out, get back on the GTD wagon, and review it all. Of course the trouble is that knowing what you want to do isn't the same thing as actually doing it, and I have terrible trouble getting my non-work projects started, or sticking to them over time. Anyway this time, the main ones are to re-start learning Hindi, to write some kind of web project to learn more about Javascript and PHP, and to do some more swimming practice before I try to have any more lessons.

The weekend has been really nice - beautiful weather (although I have to be very careful in the sun). I took the girls to Cherry Hinton playground and we all had a nice paddle in the pool there. E met one of her friends from nursery, so that was good.

L has been out on her new bike a couple of times - I'm still just holding onto the back, but she is really close to being able to ride independently now. Annoyingly the front tyre has a puncture already, although it seems to be a slow one.

Went out for a bike ride this afternoon - round through Fulbourn, Wilbrahams, then up to Teversham and back through Cherry Hinton. It was good, although a bit too hot, and I finally remembered where I found a little path which I walked a couple of years ago, and which I then completely lost.

Morrissey at Cambridge Corn Exchange

Went to see Morrissey last night with my friends Ian and Clare. It was a really good gig, and we managed to get very near to the front (with all the squashing and jostling that entails). There's a set list here - pleased to see quite a few Smiths songs in there + quite a few more recent crowdpleasers.

There was a little incident when someone heckled Julia Riley after Moz gave her a birthday shout-out. Moz asked him to leave, and when he didn't really want to, Boz Boorer came over and gave him what looked like a pretty good line in verbal abuse, after which he went. To be honest I don't see how he could have done otherwise really - I doubt Morrissey fans are quite up to the standards of the Hell's Angels at the Isle of Wight festival, but I don't think I'd want to be surrounded by them when you've just pissed off the main man and his biggest fan in the middle of a concert.

May Update

Looks like it's quite a while since I wrote anything, so here goes with a quick update:

• swimming - I had another lesson, and I was able to do some full lengths swimming independently. I think a couple more should do it, and I need to work on being able to float and try going in a pool where I'm out of my depth.
• running - I've been doing gentle runs with walk breaks (1 min in 5 or so) every weekend, and so far no problems, so I'm going to start doing a run in the morning during the week again.
• last week or so I've had a nasty cold - felt quite grim + sinus pain - ugh. Seem to be over it now, but it was annoying to get it just when I was having a day off. Still I managed to go out with E and visit the Museum of Zoology, which I'd never managed to do before. They have a fantastic collection of skeletons of all kinds of animals - including whales, elephant, rhino etc. Went back to work on Friday to discover over 200 unread mails.
• I'm going to see Morrissey next week at the Corn Exchange. I saw him last year at the O2 festival in Hyde Park, which was great, so I'm really looking forward to it. As luck would have it, I just completed 5 years at my current job, so they gave me some Amazon vouchers, which I've used to buy the last two albums (among other things). Ringleader... didn't do that much for me, but I really like Years of Refusal - particularly All You Need is Me.