Jack Daniels Belly

I'm not a fan of beer. I've probably only ever had 2 pints in my life, and I genuinely think beer smells and tastes like your bog standard public urinal. If you'll pardon the pun...

As I'm sure you'll know, I'm more of a whisky kinda guy, with a bit of vodka thrown in, (although not at the same time). Despite it being more expensive when you go out, I genuinely do think there are more defined tastes across the brands. What am I saying? It's easier to get drunk with smaller glasses! Jack Daniels, Bells, Smirnoff, Chekov, Glens or even a bit of Knob Creek. I'll take anything. (Cease laughing at the back...)

The point I'm getting at though is, since I discovered the world of alcohol, I have had a noticeable drop in fitness levels. Even when I was playing and refereeing football with cricket in the Summer and actually doing manual labour for work instead of sitting on an office chair, I have felt a change in how long I can keep going for... (There is an innuendo in there somewhere...) But now, given I gave up playing football, and now not refereeing football for the 2012/13 season due to my reasonable morals, (the first season I have not actively been involved in the sport since roughly 1996), I fear my fitness levels will be dragged down to an all time low during the Winter. So, I hear you ask. What am I going to do about it?

I have two options. Well.... Three. Edit. 4!

1) I can go back to playing football. Albeit as a goalkeeper, I will have the added training sessions as a way of doing some exercise, but my main concern is that I have fallen out of love with the game. I have exhausted most of the avenues that the game has to offer, and I don't really feel like going back.

2) I can find a new sport. I have played multiple sports during my life, including football, tennis, golf, cricket, snooker... (not exactly exhausting...) The only sport I could really take up during the Winter is tennis. My local club has an indoor arena that is used during the Winter season, but the costs of membership and everything else is sky high. Do I want to pay so much for something I may not enjoy? I don't know...

3) I can join a gym. But I do have an active dislike for gyms. It's full of absolute posers who feel the need to look like Cristiano Ronaldo and you are always followed around by some chap called Brad or Jack who wears a t-shirt 3 sizes to small for him. I generally hate the aura of gyms. Awful places. Strict no no.

Or 4) Nothing. I can literally spend my Winter doing nothing but lazing around, sitting at work in my office chair, eating junk food, no doubt drinking more whisky, and generally getting fatter and fatter.

Frankly, at the moment, I'm more inclined to go for Option 4.

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Back to the present then, and this week has been of the distinctly average kind. The mess from last week's business was all sorted, and the beginning of a new trading period saw everything reset to 0.00, which is always a nice sight. Everything is fine, and I am feeling comfortable at the moment. Nothing is really going on at all...

So, yeah. That's it.