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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
I've got my induction session with one of the trainers tomorrow morning to set up an exercise programme
best of luck with that. I'm more fortunate in the southern US regarding weather it sounds, I decided to leave the gym because I never felt like going back inside (i'm inside all day for work as it is...).
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
By extra I mean that I do normally walk about 40 mins a day between my house and the railway station
This is not an option for me, as I currently have no public transport that could take me to work, and live 25 miles away. Though that may change with my move, and I could realistically begin riding my bicycle the 7 miles. 
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Do you like running?
I never thought I would, and began my exercising with 1-2 of walking after work, several days per week, or hiking on the weekends. After I improved my fitness a bit I found I just wanted to run. Still not good at it, and when I go for a run it's more half running and half walking, but I do enjoy it. I've actually decided on a bike ride tonight instead to break things up and see some neighborhoods that are more distant. A change of scenary.
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the Dean Gallery[^]
Looks nice. I'd love to see a Dali exhibit. I've got this[^] Dali hanging in my living room.
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brianwelsch wrote:
Though that may change with my move
 Good luck with the move. I spent two years looking. (I'm not wanting to put you off so I'll just point out that the housing market here is quite strong). A couple of friends of mine moved house last year and when they put their house on the market on Tuesday morning it was sold by Thursday. The house they themselves bought was on the market for only a few hours.
brianwelsch wrote:
A change of scenary
That's always good. I'm finding that between visiting my parents one evening a week and walking an couple of extra railway stations (both roughly 5 miles from where I work, but different routes) and varying the routes inbetween (like going a bit further west, before turning north, so I can walk past galleries and so on) I can see quite a bit of Edinburgh.
brianwelsch wrote:
I'd love to see a Dali exhibit
There is a museum in Florida that has quite a bit of his work. http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/[^]
I've also been to the Dalí Theater Museum[^] in Figueres, Catalunya. It is pretty amazing. If you ever go to Barcelona you must see it. It is only a two hour train journey north of Barcelona, near to the French border.
brianwelsch wrote:
I've got this Dali hanging in my living room
Which one? There are three on the page you linked to.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
I spent two years looking.
yikes. that's patience. I spent about 3-4 months looking through neighborhoods and online, and on a whim visited a few new places last weekend, and found a great deal, and if all goes well will have the keys in 2 weeks.
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Good luck with the move
Thank you.
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
I can see quite a bit of Edinburgh.
Sounds nice.
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Which one?
Ooops, sorry. I thought I linked to a unique picture. I have the Invisible Afghan ... Face of Garcia Lorca (2nd Dali, 6th overall picture) Thanks for the additional links.
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brianwelsch wrote:
yikes. that's patience.
I managed to secure the house I live in now by minutes. Also, I was travelling a lot at that time so the opportunities were sporadic at best. I was viewing neighbourhoods in commuter towns outside Edinburgh - There is no way I could afford to live in Edinburgh and have the amount of space I have. I saw a showroom and was told that on the following Monday they would be putting a similar style house, but slightly smaller, on the market at 12:30. I wanted to see the actual style first, and was told that if I travelled through to another site they were building on the west coast (remember Scotland is small you can drive coast to coast in 90 minutes at the narrowest point). So, at the next opportunity I had I travelled through. It also happened to be the Monday. Since each site office doesn't open until 12:30 I couldn't see what the layout was going to be until then. As luck would have it the site manager arrived at 12:25 and I got in early to have a look around the show house.
Well, I loved the house so I explained to the site manager that I was actually wanting to buy the same design house in Dunfermline. She was kind enough to phone through to the site manager at Dunfermline to ask them if it was still for sale, it was, and could they hold it for me until I made it through to sign the documents. That was acceptable and I drove back to Dunfermline.
When I got to Dunfermline I was 5 minutes into filling in the forms when a call came in for the site manager from another person who wanted the house too. It was the last one of its type to be built on the Dunfermline site (the remaining houses were going to be much larger and much more expensive). The site manager then mentioned that while I was travelling from the other site she'd received another call too, so I was very lucky.
With all the forms filled in and processed all I had to do was to wait 6 months for them to actually build the house.
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![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) A little more. Just half a kilo this week, bit it is in the right direction and as the Tesco advert says: Every little helps.
Here's the stats:
Today I weigh: 94.100kg
Difference since start: - 1.600kg
Difference since last Week: - 0.500kg
Average change (per day): - 0.114kg
Average change (per week): - 0.800kg
Average change (per month): - 3.428kg [predicted to 21st July]
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That's brilliant Colin!
Out of interest, how are you doing it?
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Megan Forbes wrote:
That's brilliant Colin!
Thanks.
Megan Forbes wrote:
Out of interest, how are you doing it?
Well, the first week, where I lost 1.1kg I attribute mostly to the amount of extra walking I did while showing Paul around Edinburgh.
The second week, I attribute to just being more careful about what I ate.
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The first part of this is: You are the master... (Part one)[^]
So, what does all this mean in the modern world.
1. Start thy purse to fattening - The suggestion here is to live on only 90% of your net salary. Jim Rohn, the American business philosopher, actually suggests 70%, but as he also points out that it up to the individual. He suggests 10% into savings, 10% to charity and 10% invested. However, even if you stick the 10% in a shoe box under the bed it helps build up your savings.
2. Control thy expenditures - This is an easy one to follow. Be careful what you spend money on. Make a budget, make sure that you account for all the essential stuff. Make sure you account for fun things also, because it would be a boring life if you had nothing left for the things you enjoy doing. But don't excede your budget. The following passage from Charles Dicken's David Copperfield helps demonstrates this point:
Mr. Micawber was waiting for me within the gate, and we went up to his room (top story but one), and cried very much. He solemnly conjured me, I remember, to take warning by his fate; and to observe that if a man had twenty pounds a-year for his income, and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, he would be happy, but that if he spent twenty pounds one he would be miserable. After which he borrowed a shilling of me for porter, gave me a written order on Mrs. Micawber for the amount, and put away his pocket-handkerchief, and cheered up.
3. Make thy gold multiply - Such as simple rule, but apparently most people don't do anything with money they are not using - It is sitting in a bank account, but it might as well be hidden under the bed. Simply put your money in a good savings account. Check the interest rate from time to time because banks change them. Recently the Halifax were offering current accounts offering 3.04% on credit balances, but after their advertising campaign began to be forgotten they quietly reduced the interest rate down to 0.1%. Check the rate you are getting and if it is unacceptable, switch to a different bank.
4. Guard thy treasures from loss - If you are going to buy stocks and shares check them out first. How financially strong is the company? What does the person advising you gain if you buy these shares? How reliable is the person's advice? Do you trust them?
5. Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment - Simply buy your own home. When the mortgage is paid off then your outgoings each month go down, and you can use the extra money to do things you enjoy, or re-invest it for the future.
6. Insure a future income - Quite simple: Get a pension plan together.
7. Increase thy ability to earn - This is where CodeProject comes in very handy. This is life long learning. If you keep learning, if nothing else, you keep your brain active, sharp and alert. As you learn new things you become more valuable, you can access instantly any number of facts that help you with your task, you will have seen someone else's solution to a problem you are encountering for the first time, or you will be able to fashion your own solution taking bits from solutions to a number of similar problems.
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Earlier today I was reminded[^] of part of a book that I read a few months ago.
The book is "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George S. Clason[^].
The book gives 7 rules for turning money from the master in to the slave.
1. Start thy purse to fattening
Then Arkad turned to a humble man who had declared himself an egg merchant. "If thou select one of thy baskets and put into it each morning and put into it each morning ten eggs and take out of it each evening nine eggs, what will eventually happen?"
"It will become in time overflowing."
"Why?"
"Because each day I put in one more egg than I take out."
Arkad turned to the class with a smile. "Does any man here have a lean purse?"
First they looked amused. Then they laughed. Lastly they waved their purses in jest.
"All right," he continued. "Now I shall tell the first remedy I learned to cure a lean purse. Do exactly as I have suggested for the egg merchant. For every ten coins thou placest within thy purse take out for use but nine. Thy purse will start to fatten at once and its increasing weight will feel good in thy hand and bring satisfaction to thy soul."
2. Control thy expenditures
Hearupon one of the students, wearing a robe of red and gold, arose and said "I am a free man. I believe it is my right to enjoy the good things of life. Therefore do I rebel against the slavery of a budget which determins how much I spend and for what. I feel it would take much pleasure from my life and make me little more than a pack-ass to carry a burden."
To him Arkad replied, "Who, my friend, would determine thy budget?"
"I would make it for myself," responded the protesting one.
"In that case were a pack-ass to budget his burden would he include therein jewels and rugs and heavy bars of gold? Not so. He would include hay and grain and a bag of water for the desert trail.
"The purpose of a budget is to help thy purse to fatten. It is to assist thee to realise thy most cherished desires by defending them from casual wishes. Like a bright light in a dark cave thy budget shows up the leaks from thy purse and enables thee to stop them and control thy expenditures for definite and gratifying purposes.
"This, then, is the second cure for a lean purse. Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine tenths of thy earnings
3. Make thy gold multiply
"Behold, from my humble earnings I had begotten a hoard of golden slaves, each labouring and earning more gold. As they laboured for me, so their children also laboured and their children's children until great was the income from their combined efforts.
"Gold increaseth rapidly, when making reasonable earnings as thou wilt see from the following: A farmer, when his son was born, took ten pieces of silver to a money lender and asked him to keep it on rental for his son until he became twenty years of age. The money lender did, and agreed the rental should be one-fourth of its value each four years. The farmer asked, as this sum had been set aside as belonging to his son, that the rental be added to the principal.
"When the boy had reached the age of twenty years, the farmer again went to the money lender to inquire about the silver. The money lender explained that because the sum had increased by compound interest, the original ten pieces of silver had now grown to thirty and one-half pieces.
"The farmer was well pleased and because the son did not need the coins, he left then with the money lender. When the son became fifty years of age, the father mean time having passed into the other world, the money lender paid the son in settlement one hundred and sixty-seven pieces of silver.
"Thus in fifty years had the investment multiplied itself at rental almost seventeen times.
"This then, this the third cure for a lean purse: to put each coin to labouring that it may reproduce its kind even as the flocks of the field and help bring to thee income, a stream of wealth that shall flow constantly into thy purse."
4. Guard thy treasures from loss
"My own investment was a tragedy to me at the time. The guarded saving of a year I did entrust to a brickmaker, name Azmur, who was travelling over the far seas and in Tyre agreed to buy for me the rare jewels of the Phoenicians. These we would sell upon his return and divide the profits. The Phoenicians were scoundrels and sold him bits of glass. My treasure was lost. Today, my training would show me at once the folly of entrusting a bricklayer to buy jewels.
"Therefore, di I advices thee from the wisdom of my experiences: be not too confident of thine own wisdom to entrusting thy treasures to possible pitfalls of investments. Better by far to consult the wisdom of those experienced in handling money for profit. Such advice is freely given for the asking and may readily possess a value equal in gold to the sum thou considerest investing. In truth, such is its actual value if it save thee from loss.
"This then is the fourth cure for a lean purse, and of great importance if it prevent thy purse from being emptied once it has become well filled. Guard thy treasure from loss by investing only where thy principal is safe, where it may be reclaimed if desirable, and where thou will not fail to collect a fair rental. Consult with wise men. Secure the advice of those experienced in the profitable handling of gold. Let their wisdom protect thy treasure from unsafe investments."
5. Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment
"Also, I say to you, my students, that the money lenders gladly consider the desires of men who seek homes and land for their families. Readily may thou borrow to pay the brickmaker and the builder for such commendable purposes, if thou can show a reasonable proportion of the necessary sum which thou thyself hath provided for the purpose.
"Then when the house be built thou canst pay the money lender with the same regularity as thou didst pay the landlord. Because each payment will reduce the indebtedness to the money lender, a few years will satisfy his loan.
"Then thy heart will be glad because thou will own in thy own right a valuable property and thy only cost will be the King's taxes.
"Thus come many blessings to the man who owneth his own house. And greatly will it reduce his cost of living, making available more of his earnings for pleasures and the gratification of his desires. This, then, is the fifth cure for a lean purse: Own thine own home
6. Insure a future income
"Because we live in our own time and not in the days which are to come, must we take advantage of those means and ways of acomplishing out purposes. Therefore do I recommend to all men, that they, by wise and well thought out methods, do provide against a lean purse in their mature years. For a lean purse to a man no longer able to earn or to a family without its head is a sore tragedy.
"This then, is the sixth cure for a lean purse. Provide in advance for the need of thy growing age and the protection of thy family.
7. Increase thy ability to earn
"The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. That man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded. If he is an artisan, he may seek to learn the methods and the tools of those most skillful in the same line. If he laboureth at law or at healing, he may consuly and exchange knowledge with others of his calling. If he be a merchant, he may continually seek better goods that can be purchased at lower prices.
"Always do the affairs of men change and improve because keen-minded men seek greater skill that they may better serve those upon whose patronage they may depend. Therefore, I urge all men to be in the front rank of progress and not to stand still, lesr they be left behind.
"Many things come to make a man's life rich with gainful experiences.
"Thus the seventh and last remedy for a lean purse is to cultivate thy own powers, to study and become wiser, to become more skillful, to so act as to respect thyself."
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On the 24th September last year I wrote down what my goals were for the coming year. I recently reviewed that list to see how I was doing. I was pleasantly surprise to find that I've managed to hit most of the major ones.
Education:
* Become an MCSD
* Write more articles for Code Project
Home:
* Redecorated the "long room" and have turned it into my study.
* Redecorated the "small room" and have turned it into the guest bedroom
* Partially redecorated my bedroom.
Health:
* Walk more
The two misses
* Weight target of 75kg
* Put new flooring down in the bedroom, hall and livingroom.
In the 88 days remaining until that year is up it would be unhealthy to attempt to attain the weight goal of 75kg and I am also not going to put new flooring down. So, I am just going to try and do something every day to keep reducing my weight, and I am going to start thinking about what I actually want to do about the floor in the living room rather than keep looking at it thinking how much I dislike the carpet.
In the meantime I might come up with a new set of goals for the coming year.
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Earlier this year I said that I was going to get rid of a few kilos. However, so far things haven't worked out the way I would have wanted. I did reduce my weight by about 3.5 kilos (about 7.5 pounds if you use imperial measurements) but.... well... I put some of it back on again. 
Last week I decided to make a better effort and I weighed myself at 95.7kg 
A few days ago I noticed that Brian Welsch[^] was in a friendly competition with Terry O'Nolley to lose some weight. I'm not really interested in joining the competition, but a side effect was that they both published their triumphs. And I thought this was a great idea.
So here, is my first Monday morning report to kind of "put it on myself" to have something to shout about.
Today I weigh: 94.600kg
Difference since start: - 1.100kg
Difference since last Week: - 1.100kg
Average change (per day): - 0.157kg
Average change (per week): - 1.100kg
Average change (per month): - 4.714kg [predicted to 21st July]
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Colin,
You're braver than I am!
Good luck - I'll check back often, and top up my motivation as well
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
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Megan Forbes wrote:
Good luck
Thanks.
Megan Forbes wrote:
I'll check back often, and top up my motivation as well
I'll keep reading the motivational books to find good things to write about.
Did you realise that the word motivation is composed from Motive and Action? In order to be motivated to do something you must find a motive for action. Often it is a simple thing, like feeling thirsty, that provides the motive for the action of finding something to drink. If you want to achieve something you must therefor find a motive for doing it. For instance the motive for me taking the train to work in the morning rather than take the car is that I want to spend as little on getting to and from work as possible. If the costs were the same I'd take the car because it is much easier.
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Colin, you're like a library of information 
As for motivation and a positive lifestyle, have I ever mentioned the benefits of photography? ( ). Seriously, photo-evangelism aside, photography forces you to concentrate on beauty. It trains your eye to look for it. As you capture it, you find you see it more and more and no longer ignore it. Very healthy
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Megan Forbes wrote:
have I ever mentioned the benefits of photography?
I think I may have heard you mention it. 
Megan Forbes wrote:
photography forces you to concentrate on beauty... you find you see it more and more and no longer ignore it
I can see that - You take some very beautiful pictures. I would have to concentrate hard to work out what to take.
I was actually telling Paul at the weekend that I am saving up my Boots points to get a basic digital camera in the £100 range [I already have half the points for that] But I can see that with a proper DSLR* camera you have a much greater range because you can add all the different lenses and filters for different situations.
I'm sure I'll get a practical lesson on phtography from you sometime in the future.
I hope I've got this terminology correct - I once went out and bought "Digial Photography" magazine so I could understand what you were talking about
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
that I am saving up my Boots points to get a basic digital camera in the £100 range
w00t!
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
I'm sure I'll get a practical lesson on phtography from you sometime in the future
Anytime, anytime - does now suit you?
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hope I've got this terminology correct - I once went out and bought "Digial Photography" magazine so I could understand what you were talking about
Brilliant! Yes, the terminology is correct. Don't worry, I'll try to contain my joy at another friend joining the ranks of photo-lovers. Passion can be tiresome for people around me...
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Megan Forbes wrote:
does now suit you?
Wouldn't a "practical" lesson mean I would have to have a camera to practice with? But, sure next time we meet up you could show me all the different features.
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I must give Terry the proper credit for initial posting his motivation and weight-loss.
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
Not sure if it's really Warhol, but I like the meaning just the same.
Best of luck reaching your goals!!
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brianwelsch wrote:
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
I agree with that. "They" would say that because "they" are looking at the changes others are making. I also see it as saying: Life is not a spectator sport - Get out there and do things.
brianwelsch wrote:
Best of luck reaching your goals
Thanks, you too.
Let the winner lose, and the loser win!
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Well, I finally managed it. Today I became a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer. And apparently I'm the first in my company to make it. 
After the exam when I was walking by to my company's office passers by must have thought I was a crazy person. The exam centre and my company's office are only about 10-15 minutes walk from each other and it was a beautiful day so I was walking up the street with a gargantuan grin on my face. And I mean my grin was going from ear to ear, if my muscles had been stong enough I am quite sure my grin would have gone right past the ears and round the back of my head. What a site that would have been!
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congrats!! ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Thanks.
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Today on my way home I noticed that the sun was setting in the north, rather than in the west. It isn't something I've ever noticed this far south. I remember seeing this a few times when on holidays in the Highlands - when sometimes it would stay in twilight for an hour but never get really dark.
So, why did I call it the "Gleam in the North"? It is the title of the middle book of the Jacobite Trilogy by D.K.Broster[^]
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At the moment I'm reading "Scoring Points -- How Tesco is winning customer loyalty" by Clive Humby & Terry Hunt with Tim Phillips[^]. It has some quite interesting (although high-level [read managerial]) ideas about sifting through customer transaction data.
Anyway, when Tesco set up their internet shopping channel (Tesco.com formerly Tesco Direct) they added a feature to help reduce the fustration of finding and selecting commonly bought items. The feature allows the customer to use, optionally, the loyalty card data to see what has been bought recently in-store and create a "My Favourites" section so you can pick those items quickly into your shopping basket.
From the book:
There was, and continues to be, a small problem with 'My Favourites'. Some customers felt uncomfortable when presented with the fact that Tesco knows exactly what they bought - It is too personal. Lanslay says:
A lot didn't have any problem, but we offered the box to give them a choice - if they didn't want us to we would not compile the list. But a bigger problem was when it revealed information that some customers might not have wanted to be revealed.
An early example was when Lansley was contacted by a Tesco Direct shopper. She had just received her 'My Favourites' list of products bought in the previous two weeks, and she was certain there was an error: The list contained condoms, which her husband can't have bought because he didn't use them. Knowing the list to be accurate, Lansley made a diplomatic decision that became informal policy afterwards: "I'm sorry" he told her. "There has been a corruption in our data. We will remove it."
"Whenever something like that comes up like this, we say we are very sorry and change it", he says. "I don't want to cause a marital rift when I can tell a white lie. Customers regard groceries as personal. The reveal a lot about you".
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Blimey, I am no privacy nutter but that is pretty bad. Reminds me of wives who demand their husbands show them their credit card statements every month.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Ian Darling wrote:
"and our loonies usually end up doing things like Monty Python."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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