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January 18, 2006
Me No Happy...............
....... and let me list the reasons why!
Reader advisory: I may come across as a whiney, whinging, wussy asshole during this post. So read at your own discretion!
1. Am STILL full of cold. It just hasnt gone away at all. Now Dad has it, and Mam has it back too worse than ever. Shes got ABs for it, and it coughing up all sorts of lovely colours of the rainbow, with some smashing sound effects too.
2. My Digital Camera is.... prepare yourself for a technical term ..... "shagged". It wont play as a webcam. It wont record video footage, it wont take pictures. 50% of the time the zoom lens wont go back into its little hobbit hole when its shut-down. Smashing. I feel a wallet crunching visit to Jessops coming on.
3. I saw the pain clinic last week. I went in sheer desperation with the pain which has been horrible all year so far - hence so few posts this year at the moment. In fact lets split this reason up into sub-reasons... yes theres THAT many!
3.a - I went needing to get more pain relief because the pain has been horrific at times. I left with a promise that if I phone up or contact them when the pain is bad they will increase the drugs for me, or maybe even swop me over to a different one if needs be seein as im gettin so tolerant.
3.b Why did they just do it this time instead? They want me to take paracetamol dailiy to see if that helps instead first. Give me strenght PLEASE! (Can u tell Im gettin slightly angry while typing this???)
3.c The nurse promsed she'd phone me next day after talking to the doctor about what to do next in my pain plan, and what drugs I could alternate the methadone with. That was Jan 9th. Guess who hasnt had a phone call since then? Yeah, you guessed it.
4. Fed up yet? We have a hard drive enabled Freeview digital receiver set top box in our house. Try saying that when drunk. And just after Xmas we got it replaced due to a faulty hard drive. Yesterday I spent an hour on the phone at 50p a minute ($1 a min for our US friends) explaining the new problem we have with the box. We went thru lots of tests on the machine. I was up n down like a yo yo pulling cables out and swapping cables, and changing settings and god knows what else. She then says out of nowhere that the problem is all software related on the set top box. I said "and how have you come to that conclusion?" and she said "we are gettin lots of phone calls each day with the same problem". SO WHY NOT SAY SO FROM THE FRICKING START!!!!!! And save me £30 in freaking phone calls!!!!!!! Stupid bloody tech support departments!
There is actually a 5, 6 and 7. But... well. I dont want to seem anymore a big whinger than I have already! lol. So I shall save those for another time and drop them in (without numbers) in another entry. And when you read them you can think "was that 5,6 and 7 I just read there? Or a brand new 8, 9 and 10?"
And you know what... I wont tell ya, just to let you have a poser to chew on for the next few days after you've read those posts. :P
Bye now,
Jason
Pain: 5/10 with paracetamol.
Pain: 5/10 without paracetamol. Jeeeeeez, what a shock!!!
Depression: 5/10 (or £30/10, depending how u look at it).
Posted by Jason at 08:26 PM | Comments (2)
January 07, 2006
Happy New Year
Been a while hasnt it. Happy New Year to you. I thought I had better make a new entry before 2006 actually ends.... :/
Sorry I havent been keeping this up to date but Ive been poorly - oh so poorly *sobs*. Ive had this damn cold/bug thing thats been going around this area lately, and it totally floored me. I havent felt so ill from a cold in years. And every day the symptoms were different. One day I couldnt swallow cos of the sore throat. Next day I was weak as a kitten. Day after that I couldnt stop coughing. Day after that, I was feeling sick. Day after that I was totally bunged up. Day after that my sinuses were screaming blue murder. Day after that my nose was a snot highway. Its been going on for nearly 3 weeks now and I still feel bleugh. Ive got a persistant cough and silly little nagging head-cold-headache and stuffy etc. I even ended up spending 4 days over New Year in BED! Now, how pathetic is that for someone with a poxy cold!
Oh well, start the year as you mean to go on.
So, what else has been happening around here since my last post.
Umm...
Erm....
You know what... I cant think of anything, as its all be focused around this damn cold. We've all had it. Only the dog has escaped as they cant get our colds apparently. But even shes been sneezing every so often... I swear she smiles afterwards and is taking the mickey out of us! lol.
Did ya'll have a good Christmas? Ours was OK, nothing special but nothing disasterous either. It was.... "quiet, you know!".... ever notice how people say that. At least in the UK they do. You ask "did you have a nice christmas then?" and they say "yeah, quiet, you know...." - in which case it prolly means "boring as heck, but we do the same every year..." heh. :)
I havent even been gaming much! I know, I know... I really must have been ill! But, what I have done has gotten myself ever so temptingly closer to that fabled level 60 mark in World of Warcraft. Im now level 59 and a half - another few days of playing, whenever that should be, and Ill be done. yayyyy! Just in time to start a new character over, and then to see the level cap raised to 70 later this year when the next expansion pack come sout.
Have you all patched your windows computers? That latest security flaw couldve been nasty. Fortunately its not affected me and M$ pulled its finger out and got the patch online yesterday instead of tuesday next week as they first suspected. If you havent already updated your Windows PC via automatic update or windows up date go to this page and do so manually to keep yourself safe from malicious donkeys with nothing better to do all day than shaft your PC over for you.
End of public service announcement. :)
Well, thats it for now. Nothing much to say, nothing much has happened. Like I say Ive been down with the cold all the time. Maybe next entry something exciting will have happened... maybe even something with a 60-ring to it. .... who knows.
Til next time. "King's Honour. Friend".
Posted by Jason at 02:40 PM | Comments (4)