Adrian Mateljan

86.5kg

Last fortnight I was surprised at the significant drop in weight due to lack of exercise, less than stellar diet and a week in Orlando. This fortnight the flatline appears to have caught up with me - but it could just have been my lovely birthday dinner at Strada in Reading. More likely I did more exercise (walking) than I expected in Orlando - or my weight is a lagging indicator of how well I am doing diet and exercise wise. Still, I am keeping within cooee of the target line and I expect to do better this coming fortnight - having got back into my routine. My birthday present, a MacBook Air, is awaiting budget allocation and won’t be with me until mid to late July (just in time for Vin’s birthday?)

I finally got around to switching the mateljan.com e-mail over to Gmail - even the mail.mateljan.com link now works. I also finally got around to installing Google Analytics on this site - so now I can see what you are doing bwahahahaha… It will be more interesting once I have more data - and when I split this blog into two new sites (which I have also been working on) - one for my personal life aimed at family and friends (which will be on the mateljan.com domain) and one for my professional work (which will remain here) - both with complete redesigns. Stay tuned! Also Internet related, I finally joined Facebook. Now I just need some time on the weekend to explore. Now that’s a lot of finallys!

This week saw my first encounter with credit card fraud. On Monday, whilst checking my credit card account online, I noticed that the pending transactions value was a lot higher than I expected. After confirming with Louisa that we hadn’t made any large purchases recently that I was unaware of, a refresh showed that it had gone up another £300! Talking to the fraud squad at my bank, someone had helped themselves to two transactions for jewellery online during the last half hour. Suffice to say the cards have been cancelled, but it is a bit of an inconvenience waiting for new cards to be issued. Not sure how my card details got out, but we have used a new pizza joint’s online ordering system in the last week - so I think, rightly or wrongly, we probably won’t be using them again “just in case”.

To wrap up, I am now back to my regular 5 x 7hr work week which I must confess is a lot more relaxing than 4 x 8.75hrs (especially when the day off isn’t)

Catchya,
Adrian

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