We bought pizza from tesco (along with a lot of other stuff) to cover us until Monday while Tracey is here so we don’t need to go shopping.
And then got pizza delivered instead.
It’s just that. much. better.
I think I just ate half the European jalapeño mountain.
So, I’m off work for two weeks! Other than being prodded by the NHS, no real plans. It’s been a rough three weeks at work, covering a lot of call out, being the person in the office who gets asked all the questions you don’t want to get asked, but I survived, just. It seems to be a common issue in March with lots of people taking holiday. Last year was similar I remember.
It’ll take me a few days to get over it all and really relax. The oddest thing happens first though – I get really down and pretty angry with the whole world, which is where I am today. I’m lucky that Grete understands and doesn’t get too pissed off at me.
So a few days of this feeling and then I’ll be able to enjoy not being at work.
Got my letter this morning saying the blood test results are in, but doesn’t list what they are. I may find out at the nurse appointment or I may need to ring the doctor. I’m sort of hoping the bit where it said ‘this appointment is non-urgent’ means they don’t think my medication needs reviewing and hence the results are okay, but that may just be wishful thinking.
I really am not a nice person to be around when I’m in this kind of mood, I think Tracey may regret her choice of weekend for visiting. Ah well.
If you can read this, the DNS changes have propogated and the site is being presented to you from the new VPS, not Gradwell, let me know if you see anything weird.
While I’m moaning – why the hell did the previous owners of this house put different light bulbs in every damn room, I know I’ve moaned about that before. The kitchen lights are really pissing me off though – 50w halogen spotlights, two sets of 4 (we run them with 1 or 2 in a most) and the lamps last about 8 weeks before popping. They blow the old fashioned ceramic fuse wire in the old fashioned fuse box, and we have to power the whole house down and re-wrap 3amp fuse wire in the dark.
Yes, one went again this evening.
So, I need to 1. replace those damn lights, the sooner the better and 2. see if I can find a resettable fuse thing to replace the cermic ones. I need to go to B&Q.
My birthday is in March, and the NHS gets me the same thing every year – a set of annual diabetic check-ups. I get some retinopathy checks (they dilate your pupils and then photograph the back of your eyes). I can’t see very well for a while after that because everything is too bright. I get a visit to the nurse who checks my feet to make sure I can still feel them and that I didn’t cut a toe off without noticing, she tends to also nag me about not losing weight, having high blood pressure, and then asks me if I’m depressed. Before all that I also have to have a blood test and provide a urine sample, did those today. Bled pretty easily, was awkward last time but the nurse suggested it was because I hadn’t had a good breakfast. This time I made sure I ate early and I sprayed the inside of the two tubes quite happily when she stuck the needle in.
Then I get to wait and see how my average blood sugar was over the last three months. I’m not expecting a good result this time – I’ve had bouts of being ill on and off which messes with my control and emotionally I’ve not been strong enough to exert enough control either, so I suspect I’ll be having a talk with the doctor. I’ll resist attempts to change my meds – I can control my sugar when I’m strong and I just need another kick up the arse. I guess his concern will be that after too many kicks I’ll be blind and missing a foot.
I’m tired of Gradwell’s slow performance, sloppy change management, undelivered promises and apparent change of direction. The final straw oddly though, was an unsolicited sales call, only days after total failures of their infrastructure. I may have stuck around longer if not for that call. In an attempt to not store my eggs in the same basket, I’m moving domain registrations to gandi.net and hosting to a virtual private server with 1and1. I’m sure their support is no better than Gradwell, and the net result is that it actually costs me a little bit more per month, but I get full control over the server where my sites are hosted, can host as many sites as I like and don’t have to put up with being told ‘things are fixed’ when they’re clearly not.
So far, www.bookthing.co.uk, www.onelinemoviereviews.co.uk and www.gemmellmania.co.uk have moved across. The .com’s are a little more annoying, for various reasons so they’ll be going more slowly. I’ll be moving darkstorm last because there’s a lot of mail forwarding happening on that domain and I don’t want to mess it up.
I’m really happy generally with gandi.net and 1and1 are ‘ok’.
Criminal Minds is finally back on in the UK this week on Living! Normally I don’t look forward to TV programs this much but CM is just excellent. Really looking forward to the opening episode after the cliffhanger at the end of last series.
Feels like it’s ages since it rained, where-as when we first moved to Nottingham it rained for almost the whole of February and most of March, non-stop. Personally I don’t mind a bit of rain although the cats clearly disagree, but I think it’ll be good for the garden and the water table.
Exceptional movie making and superb story telling make Wall-E a totally unique and memorable experience that is moving and funny and full of heart.
Much like a surfer who spends a long time waiting for the right wave, only to have it vanish beneath them just as they’re about to rise and finally reach the sky, Rocknrolla never gets a stable footing despite several attempts and misses the crest too often.