Losing it[1]

Had a fairly inactive Bank Holiday Monday yesterday[1], so it’s no surprise that I’m slightly up again at 201.2 pounds (14 stone 5.2 pounds, 91.3kg). Got houseguests for the next couple of evenings, so there may well be some going out, eating and drinking going on, which means I’m likely to get heavier again.

[1] Didn’t quite get round to all the cleaning, ironing and general tidying up I intended to do

Well, even though I managed a proper exercise session last night, I’m a whisker up at 200.8 pounds (14 stone 4.8 pounds, 91.1kg) today.

Down nicely at 200.6 pounds (14 stone 4.6 pounds, 91.0kg). Still a little heavier than I really want to be, but all things considered, not too bad.

Well, not only have I just caught up on all the posts I should have been making this week, but I’ve also been testing some different weblog software.

Losing it[1][1] has been runing on Movable Type since I started it earlier this year. I’ve had a lot of fun learning the package, tweaking it, editing templates, and so on. I’ve been testing the new version 3 on another site[2]. Now to get the best out of version 3, and the soon to be released 3.1, I’d have to rethink some elements of the site, and probably redo a few things. I’d been pondering that when a message I read somewhere or other led me over to WordPress, an open source project based on PHP and MySQL. I’d looked at it briefly some time ago, but hadn’t actually tried to do anything with it. This time, for some reason or other[3], I decided to give it a try. Installed it on my test site, imported all the entries from here[4] and started to play.

Well, just a day later, I’m impressed. The posting interface is easier to use than MT, I’ve found an Amazon plugin that does suitably clever stuff, and because it’s all dynamically created by PHP I don’t have to wait for the site to rebuild every time I change something.

So, decision made. Losing it[1] is going to move to WordPress. The change will happen over the next few days[5]. Regular readers probably won’t notice much difference in how the site looks, but I’ll be happier with its workings.

[1] The footnote reference after the name isn’t a reference to a footnote in this post
[2] Not giving a link to it, as it’s up and down a lot, depending on what I’m testing
[3] Hangovers make my brain do unexpected things
[4] Interestingly, the import worked perfectly the first time. When importing entries into Movable Type 3.x, this was less reliable…
[5] Bank Holiday weekend - just the time for redoing the website

…is really nice, but I think I’ve done it a bit too much this week.

Tuesday: had a big lunch in London with a colleague, including some wine, and had a couple of drinks and a light meal in the evening.

Wednesday: dinner on the train, and a half-bottle of wine

Thursday: Chinese meal, wine[1], drinks[2], got home after 1am

Friday: drinks after work, pizza, etc

No wonder my weight is up this week……

[1] Is it a good or bad thing when the waiter knows what wine I’m going to order?
[2] Understatement

Slightly down, but still rather high this morning at 202.0 pounds (14 stone 6 pounds, 91.6kg).

Heaviest for a loooong time this morning, at a quite large 202.4 pounds (14 stone 6.4 pounds, 91.8kg). And I may have a slight hangover.

A bit better this morning at 200.4 pounds (14 stone 4.4 pounds, 90.9kg). Going out for a meal and a drink[1] tonight, so a further rise is to be expected…

[1] That’ll be one of those understatement thingies

Well, back from London. Ate a lot, drank a bit, so it’s not surprisng that this evening’s weight is well up at 202 pounds (14 stone 6 pounds, 91.6kg).

Back down to 199.6 pounds (14 stone 3.6 pounds, 90.5kg). Off on a London trip, so that might go up a bit……