a view through my own eyes

It has been an odd few months, yup nearly three months since I last blogged and to be honest I just haven’t felt like bothering. No not like that, I am not depressed or anything like that I just really have had no interest in blogging. The same to be honest can be said for taking photographs as well.

There have been a couple of occasions when I nearly deleted the blog altogether but decided not to as I am aware that it gets read from time to time with people looking for cornea transplant related things, so probably best to keep it if it helps get someone through the uncertainty etc.

So time to catch up a bit.

Sam and I went to Paris for a weekend, I was ill – the first clue was I didn’t order beer with my lunch, the second was I didn’t eat my lunch. Come the evening I had a temperature, fever, and ached everywhere. Later that same evening I was hallucinating (I am not saying what!) and spent half the night in the bathroom. Returning home the following day was survivable (obviously), and further investigation when Sam got ill on the Monday revealed that we both had swine flu and that is despite my best efforts at eating bacon sarnies.

A close friend who is deaf moved in for a month and had a cochlear implant, she can now hear for the first time in over twenty years – neither Sam, myself or most of her work colleagues have ever been able to have a conversation with her before. Utterly astonishing.

In the last three months we did get a kitten, the black one called Sirius, Minerva his sister turned out to be a brother with lung problems so Regulus is no more. Sirius however is an utter bundle of fun and makes the other cats look so old. I think tomorrow will be Christmas tree day, so no fragile ornaments on the tree this year.

Work has been crazy busy, it has been a year since I changed job and I have no regrets about leaving one university for another. The entire DNS infrastructure over our four sites was swapped on my first anniversary to complete phase one of a project, the DHCP service over the sites gets completed in early January – so nothing important that could break almost everything should it go wrong. Kinda hoping for teflon coated trousers for Christmas.

George has been mostly good on the whole, this had an infection/virus that turned the eye red overnight but that is being treated now and surgery is being booked to sort out a couple of other issues with the same eye. The week has been stressful with George and now it is time just to flomp.

The electronic part of the Enigma-E has been completed (thank you mrspao) and worked first time (yes I do have pictures), with luck I will soon have time to start building the case for it. The Enigma-Uhr is not working though and the battery is flat in my multimeter so this will have to wait until I have been to Maplins (dangerous) which has just this week opened locally (yay) next to a KFC (very very bad).

My aim to read a book a week this year was scrapped due to apathy, but now is gaining a head of steam, I will make up a list at some point to see quite how bad it it was this year.