WORLD NOT GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN

All still alive, but things not going well, not ready to talk about it.

sorry

Mondays, Blah Humbug

I don't like Mondays, well the having to be some where through necessity rather than choice, and the getting up part, and the caring about silly things, and the waiting for someone else to do things so you can.

rubbish

I get to play with a knitting machine tomorrow, so it's not all bad.

raising the bowl

had to raise Lady's bowl up last night, she can't bend her neck enough to eat anymore, makes me a bit sad.

I did the chickens this morning,

freezing + chickens = frozen chicken poo

that's what you want on your Sunday morning! on the plus side the guinea pig hutch chicken seems like she's doing fine. The new ark came, it's cool but doesn't have a perch or a dark area, need to look to that.

I have new plan, with the new ark we'd be able to get some fertilised eggs and hatch them, assuming one of the chickens had gone broody, we'd have chicks, and then more chickens! cute or what!

snow

Snow, frozen precipitation, it falls from the sky, it gets cold, it gets wet, and it gets slippery. I know these things, I am not a meteorologist, I have no training. The BBC gave at least 4 days notice that it was likely to snow. So why did it take me 4 hours to get home?

The train was 30 minutes late. There’s a Trans-Siberian Railway (Trans-Mongolian line) it goes from Moscow to Beijing, through Mongolia. It gets cold, these are cold places, for February, in Moscow the average maximum temperature is -6, it’s not hit that here, in Beijing it’s 4, for Ulaanbaatar, capital of Mongolia, it’s -13, where we are unlikely to hit until global warming really hits.

Why can they get a train to go? Practice I guess, that line is over 4 736 miles long, I needed to go less than 5, but it took 45 minutes to get to town. Waiting for the bus in the snow was unpleasant, the snow had soaked my shoes and my feet were cold, but that was the worst of it. The thick coat, gloves, lovingly knitted scarf and hat helped a lot with that.

So on to the bus, 45 minutes into what is normally a 60 minuets journey. I’ve been to Prague, when we arrived it was -10 (much to DuLa’s trauma) the bus was one of those bendy ones, took us from the airport to the town, no problems, traffic at 50km an hour.

I spent over 2 hours on a bus that got me ½ way from town to home. The emb, who had walked to the bus stop to meet me than called to say that the buses couldn’t get up the hill by where we live, so he came to get me, bless, we then spent an hour and 10 minutes in the car, trying to get home, on the plus side he brought supplies and we had the heat up to 27° with heated seats.

I was glad to be home, but 4 hours is silly to go under 10 miles.

Part Husky

I think Ulrick is part husky, he loves the snow, and so does lady, so long as it’s not too deep. We spent ages playing, throwing snow and the like. Although Ulrick couldn’t work out how the snowballs he fetched disappeared before he got them back, but fair play melting is hard to understand.

Collar problems

I had to take lady’s collar off today, it was pressing on the tumour, so she was having trouble breathing. Not good, but she seems a lot better now. She’s still having trouble breathing but it’s not so bad. Have to say that it’s not looking good though.

Having said that, she was given 4 weeks to live in April, so she’s doing ok. We just got to see how it goes

Henpecked

For some reason 5 of the chickens decided the other one should cease to exist yesterday. Not good, all started last night when after matt brought the eggs in, one was covered in bloud, which had never happened before.

Anyway today I get a call at work, emb had checked on the chickens once the sun came up, and this poor one was in a bad state. Not as bad as when the fox got the rooster, but bad.

So to the phone call, he’d gone to our local pet shop to get something to put her in, which turned out to be a primary colour guinea pig hutch. He’d also ordered a chicken ark. Very busy emb

When I got home, she was installed in her new home, and looking better than she did, or so said emb.

New Thing

Courtesy of Google Analytics I can now see where people are when they pop in for a look at my wittering, I'm thinking 4 Continent's is pretty good considering there is absolutely no worthwhile content ...



now all I have to work out is how to get the others; apparently there is a research centre in Antarctica.

Bird flu in the UK

Bird Flu is back this is not good, if H5N1 virus doesn't get them then DfRA might.

Maybe we should get the chickens masks ...

Oh, just one more thing...

Quote of the Day
(Taken from the popular web page, I thought this was worth sharing)

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

- David T. Wolf

- More quotations on: [Cynicism] [Idealism]

So now the question is which one to I click first?

It's Sunday Morning

Morning all, in days gone by I’d be in my parents bed indulging it the “Sunday Morning Gossip Network” deeply involved in the, he said, she said discussions of the night before. However age, and the attraction of DVD box sets comes to us all, so I spent last night in, as such there is very little gossip to share.

Moving on I’m sat on my bed, drinking peppermint tea brought to me by much beloved emb. I’m very relaxed, but eat far to much last night and then stayed up late on the phone to A:J who is going to be a weird uncle again, which is nice. I went out for Hallowe’en in 2005 and meet up with his family & friends and generally imposed my self upon them (cheers all).

So we had a long chat about family, friends, dogs, tea and Tabasco, we were on for a while. Thankfully through the wonder of first:telecom I get calls to the USA at 1.5p per minute (Malaysia is 3p). Which means the call was under £1!

I’ve never had altitude issues before, but then I’ve never been that high before, Denver, CO altitude - 1635 meters, Laramie, WY altitude - 2218 meters (that’s over a mile and a 1/3 up), Saratoga, WY - 2 068 meters. All in all, very high!

It is most concerning being a Brit and being incapable of holding any alcohol, particularly amongst Americans. That is apposed to the very few millilitres I used to be able to manage! No alcohol on the new drugs however, so when/if I can drink again, I’ll be even worse.

Aside from the no drinking, which to be honest is an annoyance rather than a trauma, the new tablets are going well. I’m feeling better in myself, it’s day 31 and it’s fairly calm, looking good.

My Saturday Night

My plan is to go to ASDA, and watch a DVD, how exciting am I!

It's day 30, any I don't know weather it's the 3 days off work, or the drugs but I'm feeling much better.

Wider and Wider

I just got a text from the McLarge, saying some of the links on this don't work properly (they should now).

The point being I didn't even know that the McLarge even knew about this whole thing blog thing. Although, thinking about it, I should have told as they were my most vocal and consistent reader on MySpace (Boo Hiss).

So anyway, I just got thinking, about the wonder of the Internet, the web, text messages, telephones, that sort of thing. I've been to many places, some countries, a few continents. I've got used to being able to text home when I land. It amuses me that of all the places I've been the one I can't reliably text from is Wales, Africa yes, Wales no.

Tables

Ok, so I saw this along time ago, I know YouTube has it's issues but when it comes to random bits of coolness, YouTube is one of the best

I'm a geek, I know I'm a geek but I want one

Thanks to Mr J for the heads up

Day 29

& it's going to get better

I'm going to sleep now

(5 comments in one day, nice)

Happy Anniversary to Us

Happy Anniversary to Us,
Happy Anniversary to Us,
Happy Anniversary Dear Us,
Happy Anniversary to Us.

Four years today!

It seams like a really long time and hardly any time at all at the same time, but good in both way. It was an incredibly powerful day, glad it happened.