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| Sunday, July 20th, 2008 |
minigoth
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11:09a |
Tech Retard strikes again
I have FINALLY worked out how bittorrents work! Yes, I had some help from a visitor, but still. The world of downloads is mine again!
*does a little victory dance* |
| Saturday, July 19th, 2008 |
ravenesquedeath
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1:59p |
Just to let you all know... Mum died on Wednesday at around 1:20pm. It was peaceful; for her, anyway. I may be out of touch for a while, I need some time out and I don't think I can face going out, having to tell people every time they ask how she is, and finding some way to reply to the phrase "I'm so sorry." I'm sick of it already. I think I'll be sticking to the people close to me for a while, that are already aware of everything so I don't have to go over all the crap and I can just... be, for a little while. Please don't be at all offended if you're not included in my little inner circle for a while, I've been out of touch with a lot of people, even Kayleigh, for a long time because I've been too busy to even think about picking up the phone. I do miss you all, I really do, but talking is just too hard right now. Current Mood:  numb |
bluehelen
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9:54p |
You'll find my goth card on the floor over there, next to my indie sensibilities.
Cyndi Lauper's 1989 album A Night To Remember is not only a fantastic record to get ready to go out to, it may very well be a contender for my top 10 albums, like, evah list.
Holding on to the rhythm
I'm standing in my leather and lace.
People move to the left and
move to the right and
the whole place starts to shake.
Without a net on a real high wire,
I'm stepping out with my heels on fire |
androktone
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9:33p |
Had a lot of people round today purportedly for dinner, although by the time I made it there were only five left :) Shaved simons hair into a mohawk and coloured auntie linda in pink. Spent a happy half hour pretending to be seven again and doing hair wraps with beads on people. I am officially not hardcore. I made vegetarian chilli with five kinds of beans and tortillas (its the same as short crust pastry but you have to knead it for fifteen minutes and it goes a completely different texture - the joys of gluten science) and nachos with melted cheese and jalapeno pappers and guacamole and sour cream and it was good. Then we had vimto with amaretto and made everyone listen to Grannys Cunt and steve has fallen asleep. He didn't let me show everyone my pictures of his naked bottom :( Current Mood:  tired |
androktone
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1:12a |
Steve just took me to see my brother in fen drsyton.. kind of a big deal as although I've always been vaguely fond of him we've never made an effort to be close.. i've always had such a chip on my shoulder about my parents I have until now not felt happy talking to him about snything inportnatr.
It was lovelyt. We sat in his garden and drank wine and talked about things we remembered and it was bittersweet, and itwas better than any kind of therapy. I am grateful. On the way home the moon was full and the clouds were strangely alligned. I feel happy. Thankyou steve for taking me :) |
| Friday, July 18th, 2008 |
ladyelf
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6:49p |
Ahhh...jus' when I thought I was starting to get better 'n that maybe these bloody tablets were working (meaning I wouldn't have to push for bein' chopped up) 'n I start feeling poorly again. Meh. Stupid bloody reflux. I don't like feeling ill. Current Mood:  disappointed |
_tonylee_
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4:06p |
Cardiff people... What's the best comic store in Cardiff? ;-) T |
lusciousa
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3:20p |
Rubbing the good spot experiment #84 HypothesisThe Ginger Pig short back smoked bacon is tastier than Sillfield Farm short back smoked bacon. Method1. Purchase 4 slices of short back smoked bacon from The Ginger Pig, and 4 slices of short back smoked bacon from Sillfield Farm at their respective stalls at Borough Market. 2. Bring bacon home. 3. Fry bacon. 4. Eat bacon. ConclusionsDue to low sample size, experiment will have to be replicated. Several times. Other findingsHaloumi fried in bacon fat is much better than haloumi not fried in bacon fat. Unavoidable orgasmic sounds during experiment trials can disturb ones neighbours. |
mr_eleganza
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12:10p |
13 DAYS TO GO!!!!!!!!!!! :-D Current Mood:  ecstatic |
mausch
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11:23a |
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mausch
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10:01a |
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androktone
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7:33a |
Yesterday they decided to turn out all of the electricity in our block of flats which made it a bit difficult to do any work, so I took Lillith (who'd been sent home from school for looking "fragile") into town and let her choose some KS2 workbooks to do over the holidays. Unlike every other child I've ever spoken to, Lillith thinks it is fun to do maths in her holidays, because she has decided she's going to university and she wants to "get a good start".
She got me to buy her a fountain pen as well, and when we got home we went through the first bit of the book, which was for the year above; ie stuff she hadn't done yet. After a couple of questions there was one with negative numbers, which she hadn't seen yet, but I just explained what they were and she figured out how to do the questions. No number line, no counting on her fingers, just right answers. A bit later on there was an equivalent fractions question, which they also hadn't covered (maths in junior schools is quite slow, isn't it?) so again I explained the principle by drawing a circle and dividing it into halves and quarters and eighths, mentioned that the top and bottom have to be multiplied by the same number, and she said "Oh right" and got all the answers right without any further prompting. The same with mixed and improper fractions. All the way through, she was coming up with the answers as fast as I was, so that sometimes when she gave me an answer it took me a couple of seconds to think it through and be able to tell her if she was right or not.
Having spent a lot of time at various points tutoring children a lot older than her for their GCSEs, it seems really really strange to try to teach her anything; her little brain is so fast that you've hardly opened your mouth when she's grasped all of the implications of what you've just said and applied it to her question. Not at all like the complicated system of patience and encouragement and alternate explanations that you usually have to use when tutoring. Perhaos it is because she's so much younger..I know it's not rocket science but they're still difficult principles to hear for the first time. I wonder if I was ever that bright? I'm certainly not now.
Current Music: lunachicks - bass ass bitch |
| Thursday, July 17th, 2008 |
_tonylee_
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10:38p |
Watchmen... Before something kills the link - Go watch the trailer of Watchmen that's going out with Batman: Dark Knight from tomorrow... Make with the clicky thing here...It looks incredibly faithful to the book... 
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drreagan
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11:15p |
Not Dead Yet
I'm still alive.
Bit too busy to update this thing lately.
You will just have to use your imagination as to what I've been up to. |
_tonylee_
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2:55p |
Doctor Horrible - Part 2 If you've been watching it already (and you should be), part two of Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog by Joss Whedon is up at the website. Personally, I'm loving it, and I'm looking forwards to the panel at San Diego. I've been hearing about this for months, and it's great to finally see it. And I'd forgotten just how much I love Neil Patrick Harris. |
noize
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1:29p |
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_tonylee_
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10:40a |
BUPA
So, being self employed, I'm considering some health insurance. And as such, I'm looking at BUPA. But although I've spoken to nice BUPA people, I want some opinions of them that aren't 'sales biased'.
Any BUPAites out there who can talk to me about this? leave their opinions, etc? |
_tonylee_
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9:06a |
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| Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 |
louis_mallow
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10:03p |
Z update, and AFK Okay, we're going to be out of easy reach for a while, so here's a quick update. Z's heart is now on the list of things signed off in the, 'coming right, no need to track it again' list. This is great news. However, the end result of Z's sleep study was that his sleep's a bit dangerous. He has lots of apnea and big mid-breath pauses that shouldn't be there. His ENT surgeon warned us, after our visit to intensive care, that she could foresee a time she might have to do something about his breathing, though she wanted to avoid it if possible and 'really would not enjoy it.' Z's now been on daily prophylactic antibiotics for a few weeks, and we have to give him steroids whenever his breathing looks ropey. Z's language is also falling way behind his cognitive development. In fact it hasn't even started, really, so he gets very frustrated. A recent hearing test confirms this is because he has quite severe hearing loss, but maybe just due to glue ear, all bound up with the airway problems. So the time has come to do something about these problems.The hearing problem warrants intervention, the breathing issues demand it. We very much hope that solving the breathing problems will also help Z sleep and eat, delaying even further the need to have his duodenal web operated on. (It's inevitable, but the longer we can put it off, the stronger he'll be.) On Monday 21 July, at 7.30am, we'll be taking Z back to Paed Intensive Care (picu), where he'll be intubated and ventilated as before, but this time it's planned, and there in picu the surgeon will do several things. She'll perform a microlaryngoscopy and bronchoscopy, to get a good picture of the issues and to assist clinical genetics with a diagnosis (and prognosis). She'll remove his tonsils and adenoids, since these are what often stop him breathing. She'll try to fit grommets to let his ears drain and improve his hearing. (May be impossible due to his size. If so he will have hearing aids. We are now booked in to sign language classes by nhs.) He's the second-youngest child she's performed a tonsillectomy on, and of course it's unusual to do this in picu. But the consensus is that Z needs to be intubated and ventilated before this begins because his airway is so problematic that it'll need to heal before he can be allowed to regain consciousness. Z might be allowed to wake after as few as 48 hours, or we might be in picu for 4 days again. In any event I'll send brief updates to LJ, for anyone to read: http://louis-mallow.livejournal.comPlease disseminate as you think necessary, and keep us in your thoughts. |
ladyelf
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6:08p |
General Update Today has been a very good day, compared to yesterday which was a terrible day. Today I managed to find me a really good course to go on which will help me get back into care work and also get me a nationally recognised pre NVQ Qualification type thing. This is good...it makes a nice change from coming up against brick walls all the time. Also, I have just found out that the Tescos just up the road from where I am in Leytonstone has a pharmacy open until 8pm which means I can get me some painkillers and not have to suffer this evening. I have got an appointment at St. Barts on the 14th of August with a Urologist so I'm hoping this won't go on much longer anyway. I just pray he does more than change my antibiotics cos I don't wanna be on 'em for 2 years+. I think that's a terrible idea. Anyway...luff to all xx Current Mood:  pleased |
androktone
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5:22p |
My mum sent me some photos from sunday :) Cut for people who don't like soppy pictures of my children.. Edit: Harry is seven and Lillith is eight.. i know they look bigger. I must feed them too much :) ( my water babies ) Current Mood:  happy |
_tonylee_
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12:50p |
Sleepy time yet? Phone collapsed last night. Luckily I'd been talking to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) madwelshwizard about updates and suchlike and as such was able to sort it out by 3am. Now have Windows PPC 6.1 on there. No change, really.
Got to sleep at 3.30am, got up at 9.30am. So far today have finished Prince Of Baghdad book one which is a nice chunk of story and a nice lead into book two. We discuss what happens with that when I get back from San Diego, so I can put it to the back of my head.
Want to start playing with Necrophim today, start getting the characters voices right in my head. I was going to work on Doctor Who: The Forgotten #5 but I have a week or two of leeway there and I want to talk to my new editor at San Diego about the Ninth Doctor segment. That just leaves the adaptation thing, the pitches, the next DFC thing - Faerie Tale, the King Arthur GN and plots for a couple of other things including the revised Steambabies, now called Empire's End: The Children Of Steam - but more news on that after San Diego. I've also promised to start working on a plot and treatment for a six issue 'book two' of Midnight Kiss. Yeah, I never thought I'd say that either.
So I'm ahead of the curve with five days to go. Let's see how long that lasts...
In other news. I'm considering watching either In Plain Sight or Mad Men (both finishing season one) on the plane - anyone got any opinions on these? |
_tonylee_
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9:06a |
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androktone
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8:01a |
Last night Steve went to sleep before me so I did some sketches of him (I did ask first) - they came out pretty well considering I haven't tried drawing people from life for years. He's got a nice body to draw, all angles and lines with lanky boy limbs :) I don't think I'll be able to put them up for people to see because he wasn't wearing any clothes though so you'll have to take my word for it that they were good :) I'd quite like to do life drawing more, I think - it teaches you to get all the lines and pose right without getting bogged down too much in detail (because they keep moving slightly, so you have to sketch quickly) and it helps me get proportions right (I usually make feet too small, for example). I also want to do sketches of wobbly ladies and explore femininity outside of the big breasted small waisted cartoon vixen category I seem to have fallen into (no wonder I don't like my body much). I might go and ask in the art shop if there are any life classes going on locally.. I hope they don't think i'm a horrible old pervert :) Today my stomach is poorly again (I don't know what I can have done to it, I've never had a bug that lasted over two weeks before) and I have lots of work to do, bleh. Current Mood: tired |
king_prawn
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1:24a |
LOLInternetz or "No questions will be answered about the $5 Hot Chocolate " Holy cats. Well, tonight I kinda half-watched an episode of SVU and spent an inordinate amount of time reading the Federation of International Pitch and Putt Associations's[1] rule book [pdf] (no, really, I did!). That was at least until I discovered that one Jeff Simmermon had gone into Murky Coffee and ordered 3 shots of espresso over ice and been rudely-refused-then-rudely-served. And then blogged it with a YouTube embed of Jack Nicholson. Internet outrage spread like wildfire. The owner of Murky Coffee posted a bloggy response. MetaFilter is still in the middle of a 300+ comment meltdown. Word on the street is Murky Coffee is now the #1 Google result for "punch you in the dick". Oh, and the TSA are still idiots. A little less than 2 months ago I flew into the US from Gatwick. After that I took several flights within the US before flying out again to Gatwick. Half-way along this trip I realized I'd accidentally left a metallic tube of liquid/gel/paste in my carry-on bag and no security-screeners had found and confiscated it. I decided to leave it in and see if anyone noticed. No one did. [1] I probably didn't get that apostrophe usage correct but that pales in comparison. Current Mood:  amused |
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