From Wii-arm to backache Lumbago

I've never felt so much pain, a few hours after my post yesterday my lower back started to ache, this throughout the day got worse and resulted in me not being able to work properly (I'm actually pottering around the house walking at the pace of snail with an invisble walking stick).

This morning I woke up hoping that the pain has gone to only find it is still there I'm now finding it hard to walk up and down the stairs, and walk with my back straight.

So I booked myself an appointment at the Doctors and have been diagnosed with Lumbago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbago

I'm not sure what has caused it I seriously doubt that the nintendo Wii has brought so much pain to me when i first got it last year I spent an entire week playing wii sports, getting wii-arm but nothing like this.

The only thing which comes to mind is that last week I cycled from work to home pretty quick on high gear and and was putting a lot of pressure into it, but then I've also done this type of cycling before aswell....

It's time's like this as a contractor I wish i had taken out insurance, medical cover etc being a contractor I get no sick pay or anything so time off work is not an option.

Luckily for me I have my work laptop here so I can do the majority of my work, it has all made me think though I definitly need to look at some form of insurance because you can never tell what life might throw at you.

Today I have a conference call to attend once that is done, I think a few simpson episodes are needed, along with a bit of harry potter reading I'm on Chapter 9 at the moment and it just keeps getting more exciting! Vicki has almost finished the book...

I have also been invited to a Command & Conquer Tiberian Wars battle tonight, one which I simply can't refuse and it will give me a chance to try out the new scrin Mothership tactics...

For those of you who looked puzzled checkout this.

Wii-arm

Too much nintendo Wii I think, these past few days I've been playing hours of Wii sports mainly bowling and Tennis. I'm now a pro bowler with a score of 1056 and I'm also a pro tennis player score 1843.

With all this playing I've now got the famous wii-arm for those of you who don't know I found this description on the web.

Wii-arm

This happens when you over-play the Nintendo Wii.

Your arm begins to ache, and somewhat burn slightly... Using your arm for any kind of quick movements, or outstretching of the arm generates pain.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - The book is finally out and we all took a trip into town yesterday to purchase it, I now wish we had got two copies as my partner Vicki is hogging it so far she has read over 250 pages and I've only read two chapters.

At this rate she will finish the book by the end of the weekend, which means it is ALL MINE!!

In the meantime I think I might watch The Goonies today as Vicki got it for me the other day as it's one of my favourite films when I was a kid.

The Forgotten Blog

Naughty me!

I started off well, with posting once a day but just recently I've been fairly busy and not very creative when it comes to making a post. Just lately there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to do everything I would like to do.

Here's just a few things which have been consuming my time.

1. The day job - I've been tasked with a new project which if I do well could result in me getting a new Job title and perm position with this company.
2. Business Accounts - Believe it or not I have an accountant who does this but I'm not very organised so when it comes to the end of the quarter I have to make sure I've printed out copies of invoices, receipts etc and that they match the statement I keep telling myself why don't I get more organised and print the darn things out as I get them.
3. The family and Harry Potter - We have just finished watching The prisoner of Azkaban on Sunday and Chloe can't wait to see the next one.
4. Web Hosting - For those of you who don't know I run a Web Hosting company and own two servers in London this past week I've been upgrading the server software and also automating some of the website features.
5. Command & Conquer Tiberian Wars - Need I say anymore.
6. Sleep - Currently getting 7 hours a day

What's going on with the weather hopefully it will stop soon and we get some nice sunshine; on Sunday our road was flooded and we live nowhere near a river or a stream etc.

I seemed to find it funny with the cars going by and the amount of water on the road, I guess I wouldn't have been laughing if the water got any closer to our front door though.

The 8 miles I cycle to and from work each is proving hard work in this weather as well, as a lot of it is uphill with the rain and the wind last Friday I was almost tempted to turn around and get the bus, however I just thought of the money I would be saving not doing that.

Well there you have it a slightly longer post whch hopefully will make up for the lost days.

Games....

Well its almost two days since I've last posted since Sunday we have caught up with missed Doctor Who episodes, and watched Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets. Chloe my daughter has only just got into Harry Potter so we are now trying to watch a film each weekend I forgot how long they go on for!

Apart from watching TV I'm afraid to say I'm hooked on Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars, currently ranked at 142,573 Worldwide . I've worked out that i play better as Scrin but I've got a long way to go until I get a decent rank..

I've also managed to chip a tooth or it's just falling to bits, tried calling the Dentist today to get an appointment to be told that my account is blocked due to an unpaid bill, the same bill which I paid last year and at that time I also had arguments with the debts collectors about it being paid, and also the dentist.

So now I have to wait 24 hours for them to look it up on the system and speak to a manager, before I can arrange an appointment to get my tooth checked out....

At least the treatment is good, but their money handling skills is terrible.

Sunday

The wedding we went too on Friday was great and the weather turned out to be nice as well.

After the wedding ceremony we all headed back to Justin and Claire's house where the garden party was being held, their garden is massive and housed a rather large marquee with a side marquee attachment for the bar area and hot food mainly a Hog Roast which was very tasty.

With endless supplies of booze and good music from the DJ we danced until the early hours well until about 3am when we got a taxi home.

Here's the scary part!

We got a taxi from Loughborough to Leicester which is around 15 miles, OK so the journey home started we had a quick chat with the taxi driver then he put his stereo on quite loud (I think cool, he's put on some decent music and I can actually hear it).

So he's driving us home, down dark country lanes I notice that he taking corners a little too quickly and swaying into the other lane, I think nothing of it shortly after I can hear the judder judder, the car is on the middle section of the road I think this isn't good and start to observe the driver through his rear mirror and also watching the road.

Further on i notice even on a straight road he's not keeping to one lane, in fact he's now driving down the middle of the road I look up at his rear mirror and to my alarm it looks like the guy has got his eyes closed and is drifting off.

So I asked him straight away "Excuse me your not falling asleep here are you?", he quickly respond in a panic voice "No!". A few minutes later we got the driver to stop and decided it would be more safe for us to walk home.

After getting out the taxi I phoned the taxi firm to complain and advised them to get him off the road, lets just hope they did. We dread to think what might have happened if we were both completely drunk and not paying attention!

As for the hangover I was quite OK on Saturday morning :)