So I'm currently working on my 241 Fire Giants task, and have been since the beginning of the week, but I've not had enough time to play much, due to being busy with fun stuff, which I'll get to later, and epically busy at work. And also, the olympics are on, and I'm a massive fanboy of any team GB achievement. Pretty proud to be British right now.

In my fire giants task, I feel I started the task wrong, and went with a full invent of food instead of taking Guthans, which was probably the worst decision I've made in game recently. After filling my inventory after about 120 I banked and switched my approach. I'm currently 700k...ish off 98 Strength, and I think I've just crossed to be into the last 2mil xp to 99. I'm getting close, but its still a lot of work to do. Hopefully I'll have some more nice fast tasks that aren't difficult, however I'm fully expecting some weird ones, like metal dragons, which I prefer to range. I've considered investing in Dragon Bones to burn on my altar so that I can level prayer quite rapidly, but I'm not too sure it'd be a wise investment right now. Maybe I'll sink money into herblore for now, as I originally intended.

So, at work I've been having a difficult time as I've been doing someone elses job all week as they're away on holiday and I'm unfamiliar with what they're doing, pushing me out of my comfort zone. Luckily today all my work came together and I finally started seeing the results that I've been looking for. Unfortunately yesterday and earlier in the week I was getting frustrated and was feeling pretty crappy about work and my attitude in work was suffering. I don't feel like I was working effectively, and its clear that there are some massive gaps in my knowledge of how things work, and how what I'm doing directly relates to what we are trying to test. It's been a stressful week, but as of today I've got the most important parts done and am finally happy with my understanding of the work I'm carrying out. (sorry about the vagueness)

So the olympics is going quite well for Team GB, and this makes me happy, as well as a great sense of national pride surrounding all the coverage. Its pretty cool to see sports not normally seen, and as I've somehow taken part in a lot of the disciplines I can relate to how hard these athletes are working and how good they are. Now I don't claim to be good or have much experience in any specific sport, but having any fundamental knowledge helps me really appreciate the sports.

Keeping on the topic of sports, I've just restarted doing gymnastics, with a session that I think was about as good as I've ever been able to do. I managed to front pike on the floor, after just going for it. I hadn't done one for about a year and a half or more, and I managed to land on my feet comfortably, and it was an awesome feeling to be able to pick up right where I'd left off before. Hopefully I'm going to start trying to front tuck to 1/2 twist next and then vault to 1 and a 1/2 back tuck.

Another sport I've been doing is Tae Kwon Do, which I've recently kinda restarted but its different style wise and its interesting. My interest in combat sports is beginning to help me, and I've been speaking to the instructor about competing and he seems keen to help me to get into some competitions as soon as I can, which will be once I've done my first 2 or 3 gradings.

So, then my other nights, monday, ran my personal best 2km, in 9 mins 21 seconds, which made me immensely happy, after a crap day at work, and then on last night went to a box fit class which was difficult, and I'm still unsure of, but anything to help bring my weight down and increase my striking proficiency must be a good step forward.

On tuesday night I had a guitar lesson (that was also the night I went to gymnastics), and I'm trying to learn some simpler songs so that I can get some decent recordings done to really find confidence in recording and writing my own tracks. I've also been working on increasing my finger speed and the coordination between my fingers and picking, as at the moment they're all over the place and not coordinated at all.

So, tomorrow I'm going out to dinner with friends, and over the weekend I plan to do some studying, and watching the olympics. I don't really have much planned, so that should lead to some significant progress towards 98 strength. Gonna write a decent gym plan for the next few sessions I'll be doing, as I'm away next week. More on that on sunday.

Peace -x-