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It all started off so well!
Walking off into town to visit a friend on Friday evening. The weather had been iffy of late so I was wearing a shirt over my normal t-shirt and had a jacket with me in case it decided to rain again. Great evening; good chat, good films (in the form of a TV series (Almost Human)), good food, and, of course (the excuse for the pun) I picked up my copies of "Stars of Black" <da:thumb id="499443622"/>
The evening was going well, up until around about 10 or 11 when I started wheezing a little. I was hoping it was just a case of the cold air and 'exertion' of walking (I take no prisoners when walking and unless I actually concentrate I tend to walk quite quickly). The wheezing got a little worse and a slight cough was added with the lower part of my throat (somewhere near the bronchia I think) feeling a bit sore, especially after a cough.
So I decided to call it a day earlier than we normally do and headed back home. Tumbled straight into bed and ... failed to sleep more than about 20 or 30 minutes at a stretch. And still haven't up until now. The wheezing has, I am glad to say, gone, but I have turned into a 'snot monster' - and I am glad I bought a couple of boxes of tissues on my way out that evening - prescient or what?
Yesterday, Saturday, I was supposed to be heading out to a folk music event with another friend but feeling like I did there was no way I wanted to go. The really bad thing about that was I was supposed to go to anotehr folk even with him about a month or so back and ... I came over 'all weird' when visiting my dad (dizzy, feeling nauseous, sweats - I was genuinely wondering how I was going to get home as I would not be safe to drive, but the main effects passed) so had to pass on that. I think I must be allergic to folk music!
Back to the good news, I should be fine tomorrow to do my usual shamble into town to pick up my usual chocolate supply and drop some of them off to my ex-work colleague who is undergoing chemo. She was the lucky(?) recipient of a t-shirt last Monday as I had ordered a couple of Sydney Padua's designed t-shirts with Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage on and, somehow, had arranged it such that one of them was a ladies t-shirt (yay, me
!)
Walking off into town to visit a friend on Friday evening. The weather had been iffy of late so I was wearing a shirt over my normal t-shirt and had a jacket with me in case it decided to rain again. Great evening; good chat, good films (in the form of a TV series (Almost Human)), good food, and, of course (the excuse for the pun) I picked up my copies of "Stars of Black" <da:thumb id="499443622"/>
The evening was going well, up until around about 10 or 11 when I started wheezing a little. I was hoping it was just a case of the cold air and 'exertion' of walking (I take no prisoners when walking and unless I actually concentrate I tend to walk quite quickly). The wheezing got a little worse and a slight cough was added with the lower part of my throat (somewhere near the bronchia I think) feeling a bit sore, especially after a cough.
So I decided to call it a day earlier than we normally do and headed back home. Tumbled straight into bed and ... failed to sleep more than about 20 or 30 minutes at a stretch. And still haven't up until now. The wheezing has, I am glad to say, gone, but I have turned into a 'snot monster' - and I am glad I bought a couple of boxes of tissues on my way out that evening - prescient or what?
Yesterday, Saturday, I was supposed to be heading out to a folk music event with another friend but feeling like I did there was no way I wanted to go. The really bad thing about that was I was supposed to go to anotehr folk even with him about a month or so back and ... I came over 'all weird' when visiting my dad (dizzy, feeling nauseous, sweats - I was genuinely wondering how I was going to get home as I would not be safe to drive, but the main effects passed) so had to pass on that. I think I must be allergic to folk music!
Back to the good news, I should be fine tomorrow to do my usual shamble into town to pick up my usual chocolate supply and drop some of them off to my ex-work colleague who is undergoing chemo. She was the lucky(?) recipient of a t-shirt last Monday as I had ordered a couple of Sydney Padua's designed t-shirts with Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage on and, somehow, had arranged it such that one of them was a ladies t-shirt (yay, me
!)
Fun times ahead - with possibilities!!!
Two things happening now, and in the near future. First thing is that my author friend Julian Miles and I will be at Wyntercon again this year - in fact next weekend, 10th and 11th September, in Eastbourne: https://www.wyntercon.org/ If you can make it please do stop by and say hello. If you give your deviantART account name you'll get a free book! Second thing is about another friend, this one a bit more remote to me, seeing as how he lives in the US. Johnny Ortega (of The Plot Hole fame on YouTube) is in the film-making business and is now at the point where he really needs to upgrade his equipment and more importantly have somethignsecure he can store, and carry, it around in! He has a fund raiser active with various levels of perks (including some great t-shirt designs and the option of being in one of his productions!_ No pressure to conribute, but if you can pass the word around, that'd be great - thanks:
Cake Wars ...
By popular request - ok, so just Shalen asked - how Cake Wars came to be! I debated long and hard about calling it Cake Wars IV: A New Gateau but didn't think I could keep the theme going, so it's plain old cake wars!
The setting is a (wait for it ...) coffee shop. Yes, I know, such a shock, me being in a coffee shop! My habits had changed a little in the past few months; I used to walk back along the pedestrian precinct in town to swing by a coffee shop, but that shop had closed down. I still walked past it on the way in and it sat empty for quite a while. Then, one day, it looked like it was re-emerging from it's somnulent state. A few
A small frisson ...
There I was, sitting in a coffee shop (yes, I know, a rare thing, but I do from time to time ...) when the opening of the door caught my peripheral vision so I turned my head a bit and saw a gentleman in a blue uniform enter (and no, NOT the police finally catching up with me ..!) and it became very obvious he was Royal Navy, much like his colleague who I then saw hard on his heels. My first thought was "they must have badly mis-parked their ship", even if we were within a long stone's throw from the sea). A thought that was quickly dashed as they walked past to the counter and their shoulder patches saying, "bomb disposal" became visible.
How bizarre ...
Fire up deviantART in Chromium and it hangs on 'waiting for google-analytics.com'. Do the same in Opera and it goes through without worry.
Is that a rat I smell or just a case of the bizarre?
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'Snot Monster' LOL, you crack me up, hope you're feeling a bit better now, and that your friend with chemo isn't suffering too much.
Take care
Take care