Tiptoeing Down The Sunshine Path

Well, I did say it was unlikely - so I guess colour me unlikely, but just about.
This week's weigh-in figures show me as:
17 stone 13.25 - down a whopping half pound on last week.

There are of course two ways to look at this. There's the way that says "Ohhh woe is me, only half a pound, and I was stationary last week too, so I'm falling behind again!!!"

Then there's the way that says "Quit your whinin', bitch, it's lighter than you've been in recent memory and you've started back on the exercise good and proper, so get on with it."

I think it was Shakespeare who put it....marginally...more eloquently, if you're gonna twist my arm, when he said "it is in ourselves that we are thus, or thus."

So this is me choosing the sunshine path and kicking on. Hey dudes and dudettes, I'm 17 stone 13.25, woohoo!

Positive thinking and all that malarkey - if nothing else, it's a relief for me personally not to be going down the "woe is me" path, so let's not. Motivation high, energy high, enthusiasm set to 11, blood 5.4 this morning, and off we jolly well go...

Oh, feel I should mention - this renewed optimism and motivation appears to be in stark contrast to the reality outside our doorstep at the moment. While we personally haven't been caught up in the looting and chaos yet, obviously, our thoughts are with those who have been.

Mind you, unless you've been directly affected by it, the looting is not without its comedy undertow. Best headline I've seen so far? "This was looting purely for personal gain, not looting for a cause."

Excuse freakin' me? Who LOOTS for a cause? You loot purely and simply to get...erm...well...loot! That's pretty much where the word comes from!

This is Tony, the Disappearing Man, reporting from his reinforced London bunker.