It's suddenly just over a week to my surgery date and it's suddenly hitting me. This is going to happen. I am so not ready ( Read more... )

aphenine is my new personal LJ account. I finally managed to find an apt name after, what, 3 months? Please add it if you would like to.

I'd like to remind people, that aphenine is personal, which implies that the content I will post will be of highly personal nature and may classify as TMI for some.

Having created aphenine, I have also realised intellectually why I ( Read more... )

After a marathon booking session where I looked up the best fares from Opodo and then went to Sta Travel and ended up booking exactly the same flights for almost the same prices (the woman there had been so helpful and coped so well with my demanding criteria that I didn't have the heart not to buy from there). I could have flown return to Pascoe ( Read more... )

For your information it is possible to clean a vacuum cleaner hose using Mr Muscle Foaming Sink Unblocker. In the event any of you need to undertake this insane endevour, the following points are advised ( Read more... )

Jan 4th everything cranks up again. I have deadlines once more, as by March I have to have analysed the fourth science run from the LIGO detectors. Until I depart (probably for Baton Rouge Louisiana again, buggerit) for the LSC March meeting where I'll (not cursing myself I hope) present the results, I'll be on full burner again, meaning keeping ( Read more... )

My desk is slowly disappearing under a mountain of papers. Fortunately, before proceeding to print said mountain of papers off, I went and put lots of organisational stuff in my filing cabinet. My mid-term has suggested a useful and logical way to arrange data and this I have implemented in the filing so I feel that at the end of the day, I'll ( Read more... )