How are you doing?  I've spent the last eleven days adjusting.  Sitting down for prolonged periods hurts without drugs (and Monday was nice to see people but oy vey, afterwards was payback!) but is getting easier.  I'm missing my exercise and trying to adjust to the crazy diet that insists I eat three square meals a day rather than continuously ( Read more... )

It's been confirmed.  I'm a diabetic and have been for some time (emphasis from the nurse who gave me the news by phone).  I'm remaining upbeat as this goes some way to explaining the last 3 years.  Naturally this adds more incentive on being good as if impending fatherhood wasn't enough for me.

From our "This is good news, isn't it?" department I ( Read more... )

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This weekend has been a bit - erm.

Friday night was positively civilised even though the Grosvenor's refusal to stock up on cranberry juice disturbs me.

I wasn't expecting the depression to hit me hard on Saturday.  Yet it did a credible impression of Manuel Pacquiao shortly after I woke up and kept hounding me through most of the day and evening.  A ( Read more... )

And suddenly people bring me news.

Robert Rodriguez to make Predator movie.  This. Is. What. I'm. Talking. About.  Ever since the Wolverine movie appears to have more scenes of Hugh Jackman looking upwards and roaring (did this fuel the HJ is gay? rumours) than actual plot to speak of and the pile-up/clusterfcuk that was Crank II, Hollywood has been ( Read more... )

Deep One done tribal style.  In honour of the new Elder Sign dice bag.

I can has new shoes!   A pair of ex-SAS parade shoes for a tenner and a pair of decent steel-capped safety boots for £40.  The boots have broken in nicely and there was much purchasing goodness.  I have also purchased a game called Colonial Gothic which threatens to occupy some ( Read more... )

Scottish academics posit Robin Hood in Nottingham, not always well-loved.  In your FACE Sheffield!

Drinking rum in pirate uniform on an empty stomach after a day of work and fundraising for Comic Relief tends to embarrassing photographs.  I blink and some git snapped me so I look semi-comatose.  Worse still, I spend a fair chunk of Saturday in a ( Read more... )

So far, it's all been unexpected good.

I didn't know what to expect with Hooters. I knew that paulbroz said the food was good and oh my it was. I didn't expect well-lit venues nor did I expect smiling emo kids. The quesadilla I had was very nice and absintheskiss was almost drowned in nachos. Following a BBQ rib block and enough curly fries and celery dips to ( Read more... )

Last night was spent in good company. My confession - yesterday was a bad day for me in depression terms. A complete lack of alcohol and inability to express without being a downer didn't help particularly as I hadn't seen either elrohana or her beloved this year and it's likely that this was going to be the only chance I'll see them this year barring ( Read more... )