Life is sometimes sort of okay because...

[Ancient Otter]

Mythos and Greece.

Mythos as in Cthulhu?

[TordelBack]

[maryanddavid]

Ahh, Mythos and breaking plates and Ouzo, Mary and meselfs first sun holiday was to Rhodes a long time ago, still the best one!

Life is sometimes OK, Mary came home today with oak smoked Irish cheese, garlic and olives, and a bottle of red for me! Im enjoying them now.

[Dunk!]

I have a detaching retina in my right eye which added to my other chronic health issues is a huge blow.

That said it's "stable" at the mo after 3 months of prodding and poking (in which i luckily discovered i'm not sensitive about my eyes like others can be) so that's why this doesn't sit in the Life Spugs thread.

The future holds probably an operation and the possibilty it may spread to my other eye.

But I live in a 1st world country and am under the care of a specialist so must thank my lucky stars.

And it's got me reading a lot again to make up for lost time or what the future holds.

Make hay whilst the sun shines folks.

Dunk! 

[Something Fishy]

Hope it all works out ok.

I've had eye surgery three times and can still see so there's still hope.  As you say the experts here are very good.

[staticgirl]

ooh that's crappy, Dunk, but you're right as there's never been a better time for eye treatment.

[CrazyFoxMachine]

Yeah Dunk here's hoping you keep your sight for decades to come. My daddio has had tonnes of operations on his eyes and the last one has left him with 20/20 vision which he's never had in his entire life!

...so, there's that

[TordelBack]

Good on you Dunk, your attitude and living in the western world in the 21st century are all firmly on your side.

I was feeling abominably cranky yesterday, having seen my last best chance at getting some proper work disintegrate as a shortlisted group tender I sweated blood over lost out to a bid for half what ours was (we only scored 40% on the price criterion, jeebus wept, how crap are we).  However this morning instead of attending some interminable pre-start project meeting, I'm making sock puppets with my daughter, then planting spuds, going to the library and taking the kids swimming.  That seems like a trade-off firmly in my favour.

[von Boom]

I've been working since 8.30 this morning, but now I'm off for a few bevvies.

JvB

[TordelBack]

Finished laying my first ever foundation today, absurdly, tragically, proud of it (I done learned how from a book!).  Also single-handedly extracted a massive chunk of old concrete strip foundation, measuring 2m by 0.6m by 0.6m, from a hole in my parent's garden through application of makeshift levers and wedges, a Spinal-Tap-Stonehengelike effort of which I'm also depressingly proud (this one I learned through 25 years of shifting stones).  I think I may pass for a man yet.

That'll do, pig, that'll do.

[Emperor]

The weather was lovely today, so I threw the windows open. Perhaps tomorrow I'll even go outside

[Aonghus]

Fair play, TordelBack!

I got hardly any of the work I meant to do today done, but on the plus side, my sister just made a caramel tart, and one of my heros (well, a heroine really) favourited a tweet of mine on Twitter. SO, a pretty good day on balance!

[Banners]

Phoned up Virgin Media to complain, and got a £10pcm loyalty discount and a broadband speed upgrade. Cool.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

I've had a long, strange day and a half.

My Sister has been pregnant and it's been a difficult and complicated ordeal. I won't go into it (none of your business like), but the long and the short of it is; she went into labour, 6 weeks early, yesterday.

My nephew (my first nephew, and my parents first grandchild) was born at 23:51 on 29/3/2012 and weighed 3lb 3 oz.

Things looked touch and go, but there was nothing me or my girlfriend could do and we had tickets to the rugby.  So we went to take our minds off it.

Ten minutes before the end of play, I got a call from the hospital. My wee nephew was going to pull through, and almost serendipitously, Ulster scored at the exact moment I received this news. The final score was Ulster 45 - Aironi 7.

The match isn't really important though. I'm a bloody UNCLE.
I have to say, my sister and brother-in-law demonstrated amazing fortitude over the past 2 days. The wee thing couldn't ask for better parents.

[Devons Daddy]

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