The most interesting sci-fi film I've seen of the last year is Sunshine I think.  I didn't like the trailer at all, but went along to see it with people and didn't know what it was until I was inside.

Another Browncoat? Excellent news! I was a little disappointed that **** was killed at the end of Serenity and I would like to see more of Shepherd Book, but then there was always a question mark hanging over the possibility of a romantic intrigue around Captain Reynolds.

Ooh! Caffeine rush! I think that I should possibly give coffee up or at least give up drinking it on an empty stomach.


It's funny how many sci-fi fans end up doing this. My brother has a 'play room' where he retires with his laptop and headphones, and I used to have to record things and watch them the next morning while my ex was asleep.

Morning all.  I haven't been on the Waffle thread before, which is quite strange as it would seem to be my natural home.

Am musing on several random matters this morning.

Actually having started to type them out in some detail I realise they come down to two random matters, so to summarise:

(1) I am overweight and unfit
(2) It is two days since payday and I am already skint (not to the point of spending money I don't have, but my reserve of "funds not earmarked for anything else" is down to almost nothing already)

Anyway, rather than having a moan, here is my proactive action plan.

To address point (1) I am joining a gym.  I am waiting for documents to arrive from PruHealth insurance (which enables me to join the only gym I really like, but can't afford at full price, for a cost (including the insurance premium) that's equivalent to the gyms I can afford but know I'd go off really quickly).  The short-term downside is that the immediate need for various items of sports clothing is having an alarming effect on point (2).

Point (2) should take care of itself really.  There's little else I really need this month.  I simply haven't got back into my usual routine since the Proms finished, and it's been three weeks!

Anyway, that's me for now.  Must do some work...

In my early to mid twenties I used to go through a natural weight-fluctuation cycle (put on half a stone in winter, lose it in spring, put it on again in summer, lose it in autumn...) and was up and down between a size 12 and a size 14 (never quite one or the other as my proportions aren't consistent with a standard dress size).  I was a gym member once before, and was a trim size 12 (ish) and had loads of energy and felt great (it didn't last, cos I joined a gym that was cheap, and it turned out to be inappropriate for my needs).

Then, somewhere along the way, the downward bits of the cycle stopped happening, and I stopped getting enough exercise in the course of my day to day life, and somehow I'm now a size 16 and counting

Plus I'm going to be 30 next summer and I've had so many friends who've told me how much harder it is to get fit and stay fit once you get into your thirties.

I am determined to stop the rot NOW!

"I'm in a conference ......  It is full of waffle".

Be brave Tommo, be brave. 

I've never been in that sort of competition.