Tonsillitis

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I have tonsillitis. It is not good. Jane has it, Myrtle has it, Claire has it, Lewis has it, Ethan had it - I feel like putting a black X up on our front door. I've had it since Thursday, and it is progressively getting worse. I will be going to the doctors tomorrow, for sure. I worked a 12…

Jury Service

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So I've just finished Jury Service. It was an interesting experience, one that I do hope I get the chance to do again one day. I served on two cases, the first was really a "worst case scenario", something that every prospective juror must hope they don't get. Oral, vaginal and anal rape. Not good. The second case was a…

I’m not dead

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I've just been really, really busy. Due to people going on holiday, I've been working far more than I'd like. I really must amend my availability contract... Have I mentioned that I've been drawing a lot recently? I can't think why I stopped in the first place. Well, I bought a Bamboo graphics tablet to enable me to get into…

I picked up a pencil

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I did. I picked it up and I used it to make lines on a bit of paper. I feel... Good about this. It was the first time in many, many years I've drawn properly. I've been struggling with it for a while now, feeling like I'm wasting my life, hating almost every second of retail (but feeling utterly trapped…

Further Halo 4 speculation

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I've been thinking about the "threat unlike anything the Master Chief has faced before", and while shooting at actual, real Forerunners would be pretty cool, at the end of the day, they are aliens. The Chief has fought aliens before, The Covenant was 100% alien. Grunts? Alien. Elites? Alien. Hunters? Alien. What if this "new" threat is human? What if…

Big beats are the best

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They sure are. After listening to the album for the past three days straight at work, I just had to buy the new Ministry of Sound collection: Big Beat Anthems. Every track has the biggest of beats, every track takes me back twenty years, every track is utterly amazing. I'm having some issues naming tracks and what-not with the Zune…

Champix: Day nine

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Day two of the higher dose, and I think we may be getting somewhere. Today would have been the day I stopped smoking, but I decided to push it back a little as I didn't feel the tablets were working as much as they should be. Throughout the day my desire to smoke was normal, although I am beginning to…

Champix: Day eight

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Today is my first day of taking 1mg twice a day. I'm getting more and more down, feeling like this course of tablets won't work. Coupled with the news that my best Asda buddy has got a job elsewhere, today could have been better. It did have it's good points - I got to go home a bit early because…