I am a terrible one for accumulating clutter. The front bedroom of my house, whilst also holding the desk whereon my PC is set up, is predominantly a lumber room, and it has long since passed the point where I needed to organise it in order to reclaim some space. Along with the point at which I would need some serious space in order to get it ( Read more... )

Still felt somewhat tired and drained today, so I didn't try and go back to work. But I did go to see the doctor this afternoon, and he pronounced my progress satisfactory, so I will be returning to work as of tomorrow. For the first time this year ( Read more... )

The cold I mentioned in my previous entry has turned out to be the worst I've had for many a year. It kept me off work for thursday and friday, and only receded gradually over the weekend. There's still a fair amount of congestion, but the headaches and the shivers are largely behind me. So I would've hoped to return to work today. But such was not ( Read more... )

"Man Flu" is an expression used by certain women, roughly defined as "the common cold as caught by men, which they feel obliged to describe as flu because being laid low by a common cold makes them sound like wusses." The implication being that it's all just machismo bullshit and women don't make a fuss over such things, they just get on with it. ( Read more... )

Decided I needed something new to drink late at night, something to unwind with. Want to move away from tea and coffee because of the caffeine; could try decaf but even so I still think of them as wake-up drinks (and I can't quite bring myself to try decaffeinated tea). Tried some herbal infusions, but while some of them were nice enough it feels ( Read more... )

Actually got a few things to update about. *shock, horror*

( Had a singing lesson )

Spent the last few days setting up a new lab. It used to be an electronics lab, but it's now been carpeted and kitted out with PCs, and it looks rather more swish than it used to. I've been fitting the infrastructure, including laying some new alarm cables round the room. The walls have wood panelling, which can be lifted off to access the pipes or ( Read more... )

The tooth is gone. The jaw is aching somewhat and I'm being careful to chew only on the other side of my mouth as far as possible, but the abcess is history, and it should all heal up nicely ( Read more... )

My holiday in Manchester, enjoying the hospitality of the wonderful saintmaryuk, is now over and I am back at work. And I'm frazzled and in pain, because the last few days of my holiday saw the growth of an abcess in a lower left molar. I made an emergency dental appointment my first day back, and am now taking antibiotics preparatory to having the tooth ( Read more... )

Been round the lake today, feeding ducks and geese. Canada geese are large enough not to be too scared of you, and a brave few can therefore be tempted to come up close and let you feed them hand-to-beak. It's not usually very many, because you're a big looming scary creature, and stooping down to get your hands closer to them could mean anything ( Read more... )