life

Update

April 16, 2009

I’ve just 40 minutes of battery life left on my MacBook, and nowhere to plug it in. I might well be sitting in United’s “Economy Plus”, but they haven’t seen fit to install plugs for anyone wanting to, y’know, do work on an 11 hour flight. Things have been utterly insane of late. It’s hard […]

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Let’s try and avoid the slice and dice, shall we?

February 24, 2009

In early November last year, I had steroid injections in both wrists to try and treat my carpal tunnel syndrome. After some initial side effects, the injections seemed to have done the trick. Instances of pins and needles in my hands over night decreased to nothing and I pretty much forgot that I’d had RSI. […]

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A little bit, every day

January 1, 2009

Last year, psychologists discovered that humans aren’t really all that great at “willpower”: The brain has a limited capacity for self-regulation, so exerting willpower in one area often leads to backsliding in others. Another key discovery last year was made by Kevin, who found that if you overwhelm your body clock with exhaustion at the […]

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Side effects come as standard

November 8, 2008

My physio warned me that the steroid injections would come with side effects, and he wasn’t wrong. To start with, a strange sense of tension in my wrists (that’ll be the extra fluid within the carpal tunnel, then) and then very faint pins and needles in my hands (that’ll be the extra fluid aggravating the […]

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Steroid injections

November 4, 2008

I had my injections this afternoon. Let’s hope this is the end of things!

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The Graveyard Pumpkin

November 2, 2008

Since I met Kev, Hallowe’en has become much more important than it ever used to be. Out in the wild depths of Dorset we didn’t make Jack o’ Lanterns. In fact, I’d never made one until 2005, when we killed Kenny. This year I did the pumpkin carving on my own, which rather took some […]

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Wrist progress

October 27, 2008

Things are, at last, improving!

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Wrist update

October 8, 2008

First night with splints, and first Alexander Technique session. (I recorded this last night, but Viddler didn’t encode it in time for me to post it here.)

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Bad news and good news

October 6, 2008

The bad news is that I have carpal tunnel syndrome. The good news is that we’ve caught it early and the prognosis for a full recovery is good!

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Hello Orwell

September 26, 2008

I really do get depressed at the state of the State in the UK these days. Labour have turned us into a country Orwell would be shocked by, and this post from Cory Doctorow made me even more depressed about the direction the UK is going: Jacqui Smith, the British Home Secretary, had unilaterally (and […]

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Realisations

September 20, 2008

I was at Enterprise 2.0 Forum in Cologne last week and one of the people I met there mentioned that they had noticed I hadn’t been blogging so much lately. They’re right, I haven’t been writing even a fraction as much as I used to, either here on Chocolate and Vodka, or over on Strange […]

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Off to Offa’s Dyke

August 10, 2008

Not that this will actually have any impact on how much blogging gets done here, given that I’ve been sadly far too quiet here in recent months, but Kev and I are off for a week to hike along Offa’s Dyke, from Chepstow to Knighton. Well, Kev will hike, I will probably waddle and moan […]

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Dear rain, please come back. We miss you.

July 25, 2008

Kevin and I are being driven to distraction. The warm sunny weather has been lovely, right up until the point where we want to go to bed. Ours is a top floor flat, you see, and it can get quite warm in here, so on hot summery nights we like to have the windows open […]

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Life in Suw-land

May 20, 2008

I know I’ve hardly blogged here in ages, apart from the odd post that’s been too noisy in my head to keep cooped up, but I thought that perhaps an update was in order. Most dramatic news at the moment is that I have left the Open Rights Group. After three years of fighting the […]

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Are you about to start an eco-renovation?

April 18, 2008

(Cross-posted from Kits and Mortar.) Ever thought about converting a chapel into a cosy little house? Or driven past a derelict barn and wished you could renovate it? Have you taken the plunge and bought a chicken shed that’s just oozing potential? And are you going to do something green with it? Well, I had […]

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