James Purser [INSERT WITTY CATCHPHRASE HERE]

Just a quick update because I haven't blogged in a little while.

On the health front, I'm making slow progress on the weight loss issue. I was doing pretty well and had managed to get my weight down to 128kgs however a bout of seasonal flu (not the swine kind) put a crimp in my exercise regime and so I'm back up to 131kgs. Sigh.

On the bio-diesel side of things, I've been quite happy with my previous experiment and am now pricing the materials to make a bigger more permanent reactor. I'm also tentatively investigating what it would take to wire a bio-diesel friendly generator into the house. We had a 20 minute power outage today and I'd like to get to the point where when the power drops out, we're the house with the lights still on ;)

I'm going to be presenting at SLUG by the way at the end of the month. I'll be talking about the work I've been doing with Plone and local governments, the ups, downs and possibilities.

I weighed myself the other night and got one hell of a shock.

132kg

290lbs

Which ever way you measure it, that's a whole lot of pizza.

So I've decided to do something about it, don't worry I won't be posting pictures of my gradually slenderinging body, instead, each week I'll weigh myself and post the result here.

I'm not going to aim too high, so I'm going to start out with aiming for .5kg a week. If I lose more, then great, but so long as I drop .5kg each week I'll be happy.

Wish me luck.