Sunday 18th 2005f December 2005

Medicine

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A , posted by Anthony in the early afternoon.

I’ve been ill. Actually I haven’t been well for about six weeks since I had that knock down cold. It’s ebbed and flowed, but always lingered. Then on Thursday I coughed up some nasty green stuff, so I thought I had better get a professional opinion.

Sure enough, I have a chest infection. Antibiotics. More importantly, though, I’ve been put back on Singulair. This is an Asthma/allergy mediaction I was on in Ireland. I stopped taking it when I moved to NYC for a couple of reasons: firstly, I didn’t seem to be allergic to America and secondly, I ran out and I didn’t have insurance.

Now it seems that my body (specifically, my nasal passages) has looked around and decided that yes, New York is a perfectly acceptable place to be allergic to, and that there is much lost time to be made up. And I have insurance. I’ve been taking the Singulair for a couple of days and I already feel much better. Of course, I have the usual shitty I’m-on-antibiotics feeling, but it’s a short course. I hope to be fighting fit by the time I fly into Dublin on Saturday. Strictly speaking, today is my last chance to do my Christmas shopping. I’d better get on that.

So, feeling ill I’ve done very little. Just work, sleep, read and play Battlefield 2. We got our own server: [R*] Meat shield come hither at 70.86.222.118:16567. It’s proving very difficult to get enough people to have a proper game. Come one, come all!

Due to lack of content I’m going to borrow a meme from Tom:

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don’t speak often, please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL MEMORY OF YOU AND ME.

It can be anything you want – good or bad – BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

When you’re finished, post this paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON’T ACTUALLY remember about you.

Hopefully I’ll see those of you who’ll be in Dublin over Christmas while I’m there. I won’t have a phone other than my US one, which will be expensive for both of us if you call it, so the best way to get in touch will be through email or calling my parents. If you don’t have that number, email me and I’ll give it to you. Maybe.

Merry Christmas!

PS – STUFF I FORGOT

Some links I forgot about, relevant to work.

Washington Post Article
The Onion
Readers Respond to Roger Ebert

And a Douglas Adams quote from the last link:

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

I’m dangerously close to thirty five. I wonder what dark turn the world will take?

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Sunday 04th 2005f December 2005

Giveth ‘N’ Taketh

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I lost my bag! It was a nice one – a Manhattan Portage messenger bag, black. I got it a few months ago. But I don’t really mind about the bag so much as the contents. My mini laptop, my PSP, some games, some movies (UMD and DVD) and some …

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