Whats making you happy right now
#12614
Posted 27 October 2015 - 10:20 AM
Those Tories really don't like not getting their way.
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#12615
Posted 28 October 2015 - 05:58 PM
Woot. Biopsies all negative. Come back in a year for a re-scope.
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor Frankl
#12616
Posted 28 October 2015 - 06:11 PM
Maark, on 27 October 2015 - 10:20 AM, said:
Those Tories really don't like not getting their way.
Sounds like
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
#12617
Posted 28 October 2015 - 06:11 PM
Gnaw, on 28 October 2015 - 05:58 PM, said:
Woot. Biopsies all negative. Come back in a year for a re-scope.
good stuff. Glad to hear all is well.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
#12618
#12619
#12620
Posted 28 October 2015 - 11:45 PM
worry, on 28 October 2015 - 10:07 PM, said:
The first surgeon sent me to a better quipped surgeon. The followup today was with the first one but he had copies of the second one's results. They symptom was that the outlet from stomach to the duodenumb was 'about the diameter of a pencil". This constriction being a classic sign of GERD (which can be treated pharmacetically) or of a side effect of Bariatric Surgeory, both of which could apply here. He didn't have a small enough scope so sent me two days later to the next step up hierarchically in the "bigness of hospital" rank. They knocked me out and used a baloon to dilate the restriction. Apparently it worked as the nasuea has receded remarkably in the following weel. The only potential down side with the current resolution is the second set of biopsies include one with the recommendation to be re-sampled and re-analyzed. Which they do during the next dilation in 4 weeks.
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor Frankl
#12621
Posted 28 October 2015 - 11:49 PM
In the meantime I'm watching Lucy on the big screen, imbibing alcohol, nicotine, TH...er, Thobacco. It's an obscure brand sold only in specialty stores in a handful of small ex-pat cities across Central and South America.
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor Frankl
#12622
Posted 29 October 2015 - 03:21 PM
My 4 year olds Halloween outfit arrived today. (sorry about the size)
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"The wise say that as vows are sworn, so are the reaped. I found this to be true"
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Founder of the Crimson Guard
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Founder of the Crimson Guard
xbl GT - Arai Zenko
#12623
Posted 29 October 2015 - 08:36 PM
Off for a week after tomorrow!
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#12624
Posted 30 October 2015 - 11:39 PM
Sam Adams Winter Lager is really, really good.
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor Frankl
#12625
Posted 31 October 2015 - 07:04 PM
Herself and I were talking about my developing cleanliness based OCD today (I was wiping the car seats down after the kids got in the car, and again when they left) when she said that it was a shame I never took this level of interest in the house.
I tried, in vain, to explain that's there's a level of control that is required for me to undertake a certain task. In other words, if it's too extreme I won't do it, because I know I won't be able to do it to "my standard". Yet with a small, controllable environment, like the microcosm of the house that is my car, I feel able to proceed, safe in the knowledge that I can accomplish said goals within a decent time frame, and not have that half-finished look.
Anyway, I decided to do it tonight, because the thought of creating a Mario likeness into a Pumpkin was too much.
Not only did I vanquish ALL dirt and re-distribute all detritus to the relevant places, I done it so that I was happy with it. Not an easy feat.
She was impressed to say the least, hence my happiness.
More importantly, I feel like a weight has been lifted.
Smug Mode....
ps For those of you with kids, you will know that tidying up whilst the kids are playing, is like brushing you're teeth whilst eating Oreos.
As I write this, I'm being gradually undone.
Hence the initial reluctance.
I tried, in vain, to explain that's there's a level of control that is required for me to undertake a certain task. In other words, if it's too extreme I won't do it, because I know I won't be able to do it to "my standard". Yet with a small, controllable environment, like the microcosm of the house that is my car, I feel able to proceed, safe in the knowledge that I can accomplish said goals within a decent time frame, and not have that half-finished look.
Anyway, I decided to do it tonight, because the thought of creating a Mario likeness into a Pumpkin was too much.
Not only did I vanquish ALL dirt and re-distribute all detritus to the relevant places, I done it so that I was happy with it. Not an easy feat.
She was impressed to say the least, hence my happiness.
More importantly, I feel like a weight has been lifted.
Smug Mode....
ps For those of you with kids, you will know that tidying up whilst the kids are playing, is like brushing you're teeth whilst eating Oreos.
As I write this, I'm being gradually undone.
Hence the initial reluctance.
"If you seek the crumpled bones of the T'lan Imass,
gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
- Anonymous.
gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
- Anonymous.
#12626
Posted 01 November 2015 - 02:20 AM
Solidsnape, on 31 October 2015 - 07:04 PM, said:
Herself and I were talking about my developing cleanliness based OCD today (I was wiping the car seats down after the kids got in the car, and again when they left) when she said that it was a shame I never took this level of interest in the house.
I tried, in vain, to explain that's there's a level of control that is required for me to undertake a certain task. In other words, if it's too extreme I won't do it, because I know I won't be able to do it to "my standard". Yet with a small, controllable environment, like the microcosm of the house that is my car, I feel able to proceed, safe in the knowledge that I can accomplish said goals within a decent time frame, and not have that half-finished look.
Anyway, I decided to do it tonight, because the thought of creating a Mario likeness into a Pumpkin was too much.
Not only did I vanquish ALL dirt and re-distribute all detritus to the relevant places, I done it so that I was happy with it. Not an easy feat.
She was impressed to say the least, hence my happiness.
More importantly, I feel like a weight has been lifted.
Smug Mode....
ps For those of you with kids, you will know that tidying up whilst the kids are playing, is like brushing you're teeth whilst eating Oreos.
As I write this, I'm being gradually undone.
Hence the initial reluctance.
I tried, in vain, to explain that's there's a level of control that is required for me to undertake a certain task. In other words, if it's too extreme I won't do it, because I know I won't be able to do it to "my standard". Yet with a small, controllable environment, like the microcosm of the house that is my car, I feel able to proceed, safe in the knowledge that I can accomplish said goals within a decent time frame, and not have that half-finished look.
Anyway, I decided to do it tonight, because the thought of creating a Mario likeness into a Pumpkin was too much.
Not only did I vanquish ALL dirt and re-distribute all detritus to the relevant places, I done it so that I was happy with it. Not an easy feat.
She was impressed to say the least, hence my happiness.
More importantly, I feel like a weight has been lifted.
Smug Mode....
ps For those of you with kids, you will know that tidying up whilst the kids are playing, is like brushing you're teeth whilst eating Oreos.
As I write this, I'm being gradually undone.
Hence the initial reluctance.
Cleaning in spite of kids? Good luck fighting the tide!

#12627
Posted 01 November 2015 - 02:00 PM
I don't feel hurrendously ill. Wooooooo hoooooooo.
Burn rubber =/= warp speed
#12628
Posted 01 November 2015 - 11:35 PM
Doctor Who having a cheeky swipe at the right-wing media's benefit fearmongering. Raised rather a chuckle in our house!
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#12629
Posted 02 November 2015 - 11:52 AM
After this six-day slog I'm off work for a solid 13 days across my birthday. Fallout 4, Taco Bell, and all being in my favour Gamma 4.0 falls somewhen around there.
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#12630
Posted 05 November 2015 - 12:07 PM
I went to see Stewart Lee last night (first time out and about in a couple of months, go me!). He was hilarious as expected but the best bit was that Steve Coogan was sat behind us!!! It was hard to concentrate properly on the show because I was trying to see which bits he found the most funny.
Burn rubber =/= warp speed
#12631
Posted 06 November 2015 - 08:43 AM
Got back home yesterday after a 21 hour flight. Had me a big sleep and went and bought The Aeronaut's Windlass today.

"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
#12632
Posted 06 November 2015 - 09:15 AM
Got a promotion at work after just over 6 months

That Elephant is looking rather frayed at the edges
#12633
Posted 06 November 2015 - 08:13 PM
Got a job after being unemployed since February.
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