"A machine as versatile as the human body...", 'The Redbreast' and too much sex in 'Transition'

Firstly, thanks for the ideas for freezable vegetarian meals. JogBlog your website does look very interesting, if you haven't seen it, have a look at  Planet Veggie, and Kathryn we have just ordered one of the 101 vegetarian cook books.  It helps to get some recommendations - thanks.

Last night I had an enjoyable evening watching 'Inception' with my youngest son.  The other two boys were out with friends and my wife disappeared upstairs.  I haven't watched a movie from Blockbusters for a while - good fun! 

I have just finished the book 'Transition' by Iain Banks today.  Very different from his other books, quite a bit of sex that didn't always seem to be in context (i.e. I think there was too much of it or it wasn't written very well).  I wondered if he was trying to write a book with a screenplay in mind.  Some interesting ideas, good plot, fairly interesting characters but I'm just not sure if it wasn't just a bit clumsily put together, it didn't quite flow.  It felt like the author had ideas that he was trying to squeeze into a plot. Still, I think I enjoyed it - it kept me reading to the end. 

I've started reading 'The Redbreast' by Jo Nesbø, I enjoyed 'The Snowman' so hopefully this should be a good read too. 

Today?  It's been a busy day today. 

Went to the gym with my youngest son this morning.  He followed his programme which includes quite a bit of Powerplates work.  I did some different exercises to those that I did yesterday, including about 2.6 miles on the treadmill at about 7mph.

 

Other than the running, other exercises:

15 minutes cross trainer

3 x 15 single arm row on each side

3 x 15 reverse flye
3 x 15 lateral raise
3 x 15 pec flye

This pushes my Janathon total up to about 160 miles.  I'm in 8th place! I'm sure a few more people will pass me yet ;-)   It's also showing that I'm in 4th place for number of hours of recorded exercise I've completed this month - all a bit of fun.

There are some notices about indicating that the gym has ordered some more of the AMT elliptical cross trainers.  These are big, sophisticated cross trainers that move your limbs like an insect.  We have two in the gym and seeing as we are to have some more, I thought I ought to have a go - perhaps even tomorrow.  This helps me in my quest to try out all the equipment in the gym.  AMT stands for Adaptive Motion Trainer, evidently it is "A machine as versatile as the human body ...", haven't seen one doing Janathon.

After the gym I took my son off  to a pantomime teenage cast reunion.  Together we were supposed to purchase some sweets and cokes from Booker that my son (this is the youngest I'm still referring to) has been selling at school.  As his gym programme took a little longer, I ended up taking the shopping list and purchasing the items for him, almost £90 worth!

Well I think that's enough for today, only one more day left of Janathon - it's been great :-)

(P.S.  The 'Blogger' spell checker is very odd, it can't always recognise complete words.  Do other people using 'Blogger' have this problem?)