Day 2 - Keeping the faith

Got up early today (no booze the previous night, so had a strange wide awake feeling...wierd). Got into the strawberry shake and started the water torture with my first litre of the day.

Went to an all day meeting and ducked out for a 20 minute walk while everyone else was tucking into food at lunchtime. Everything still going well and taking on board more water. I have not been to the toilet so many times in my life. I am sure my trousers felt a bit looser but this may be just wishful thinking.

Dropped in on the company cricket match this evening, having no problem resisting the booze on offer....mainly because facing more drink was beyond me! However, things got a little mouth watering when the BBQ started up but I resisted....just. Had another drop of water (well a pint or so) and went home to enjoy my final two food packs of the day and bury myself in some TV and finishing the book I am reading.

Book - Just finishing Ben Elton's "Chart Throb" a micky-take on reality pop programs and it is very real and very funny. Written in the classic Elton style (a bit like reading a Blackadder episode) with uncanny attention to detail and picking up all the little jargon phrases used in every reality pop program you have ever seen and a few more besides. The characterisations are classic and readily identifiable with TV folk. It also gives a cynical (but probably very accurate) inside view of all the different players in the whole reality TV world, in front as well as behind the camera, picking up on the politics and arrogance of it all. Very entertaining and very funny.

Today's lyric from one of my favourite US artists with a clever, story-telling style of song writing and fitting for today's experience...

Title: Keeping the faith
Artist: Billy Joel
Album: The nylon curtain
Year: 1982

If it seems like I've been lost in let's remember
If you think I'm feeling older and missing my younger days
Oh, then you should have known me much better
Cause my past is something that never got in my way
Oh no

Still I would not be here now if I never had the hunger
And I'm not ashamed to say the wild boys were my friends
Oh
Cause I never felt the desire
'Til their music set me on fire and then I was saved, yeah
That's why I'm keeping the faith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Keeping the faith