Archive for July, 2006
Friday? Well good day all in all, was meant to cycle over the downs to Jevington for a beer or two but spent a considerable amount of time making up a front brake for my bike. After welding certain parts together we decided in the end just to use an angled bit of steel with a couple of hole drilled in it. Does the business now, thanks to Cam and Adam… So with little time left we cycled down to the British Queen for a pint or two, I tried this cider called Old Rosie at 7.3% abv and got quite merry to say the least. Evening was a good laugh, I went out with a coachload of Firemen on a Stag doo to Brighton, the groom was dressed on a pink vest top and a nappy with a huge baby bottle for his beer, laced occasionaly with the odd Viagra. Started off at the station, lots of beer on offer, after that cider in the afternoon I decided to pace myself and onto a coach off to Brighton. There were two strippers for the man, seemed the Viagra had no effect, either that or he was getting into the Brighton mood and turned Gay.I reckon the strippers were more embarrased than the groom who was absolutely loving it! Coupla beers and lots of squirty cream later we moved on, where to I don’t know, frequented severeral establishments of refreshment before settling down at a club I believe was called Creations, which was quite good, I was on water by now as I was being responsible and didn’t want to pass out and get gang raped by the male population. Not fair actually, I met some real nice guys on the night and definately not poofters. I’m not at all homophobic as long as they don’t try and shag me! Fell asleep for most of the journey home threw up and off to bed birds singing and warmish sunshine.
Hmmm…I feel a sense of insomnia overcoming me, so I’m back with an update, actually bugger all has happened since the last entry except I’ve drunk a can of Guinness, woohooo! Wierd I actually fancy a fag but I haven’t got any…never mind, I’m not really a smoker anyway, people who know me will know that I may spark up with a beer in my hand but thats it, strangley I do not crave unless I drink so giving up would be a doddle and may even cap some of my bingeing habits. But there’s another story, need to set a date to begin the PKU diet, it is tough…very tough so I need to be absolutely sure its what I need to be able to accomplish it long term. Thinking of the protein foods I enjoy that I would have to give up include Fish, Angel’s Makerel in particular 😉 Polish sausage, yum, Kabanos, Zwyeska (I’m sure there is an “i” in there somewhere?) I do not eat alot of meat, so all your Sunday roast faves wouldn’t be an isssue. Cheese not bothered, I like some Danish Blue or Mycella, another blue cheese I believe is French, but again not what I would class as something I would miss being on diet. Hmmm… some green leafy stuff I need to have to weigh, I could make a vegetable casserole using free (of protein) veg and scoff it till it pours out my nostrils…but some vegetables contain a significant amount of protein that has to be considered and therefore it has to weighed. Potatoes, Spring Greens, Runner Beans, Peas, Spinach, Sweetcorn, Mange Tout, Sugar Snaps all contain protein that has to be taken into consideration. Root veges tend to be low protein, exception being potatoes. Of course there is fruit, nearly all fruit is very low protein and hence is free on the diet, bananas (have said this far too often) need to be weighed. I think most fruits are free in moderation, not to say that they are protein free but a normal serving is considered not worth adding to the intake. Having said all this I’ve had a few questions for the dietician in London about so called freee foods that infact are quite high in protein, for instance, a tin of tomatoes contain approximately 5 grammes of protein, which is one third (33%) of the daily allowance for most on diet PKU patients, but it is published as a free food. Why is this? I asked the very same question to the people right at the top in PKU England and had no answer. Orange juice is another one that is free but has significantly high level protein content. Why am I writing all this shit? Maybe this can be the subject for Lemsworld.com, PKU why not and have a forum for sufferers of the disease, yes that seems a good idea. Lets face it I know quite a bit about the subject having been subjected to it all my life… Thats it, now I’ve put that idea in my head I will not be sleeping at all tonight, but maybe I could actually make a difference you never know. What a very long and boring entry, sorry about that, but I’ve got sod all else to do.
July 15th, 2006
This is it! I’m quite surprised that I am still reasonably happy in consideration. I may even kick off my diet for phenylketonuria (there’s one for the search engines) soon, I have been in touch with the dieticians at the University College Hospital in London and need to book an appointment with the Consultant who I beleive is still Dr. Lee, only then will I revert to a Rabbit like diet. In fact a Rabbit’s diet is probably more varied but they dont get any of it from the NHS.
Yesterday I caught the sun a bit, cleared a load of stuff from Chains garden and took it down the tip, then entertained myself sitting on the patio in the sun watching Chain’s amazing carpentry interpretation. In other words a door that didn’t fit. Thought I’d give a hand for 5 minutes before nodding off in the sunshine again. Angel made us a lovely bit of fresh Makerel and salad, thanks Hun x Then I poppped to my local for a game of pool, won a few lost a few. I met Rhys, who is Luke’s Brother, Luke is the guy who had the car accident, I spoke to him about it and his general answer was, “We are all coming to terms with it,” which upset me a bit because that means that Luke is either not going to make it or, he is going to be severley affected by it. I have also had word from Bluewatch who were there on the scene to cut him out and the injuries sounded horrific, I really feel for the guy and his family, they are the salt of the earth and surely didn’t deserve this…
Anyway on a lighter note, I’m off for a bike ride over downs today with a coupla mates and lunch at the Eight Bells in Jevington, when I say bike ride I mean off road not cycling in tartan socks along a cobbled street waving to passers by. I love it but I don’t have a front brake so will have to take it easy. Nothing else of interest really, except I’ve had about 5 mugs of coffee in the last hour and beginning to get a bit hyper…..
July 14th, 2006
Hello, bought a sealed lead-acid battery off of ebay for a fiver recently and it will not charge. I’ve done some research and it looks like its down to sulphation, lead sulphate forming on the plates because of being left in an uncharged state for a long period. I measured the charge current at 60 microamps initially and have had it wired up to my power supply for 3 days now and the charge current has hit a wapping 4.7 milliamps, hmmm I have the design for a small electronic circuit to build that is meant to desulphate batteries, it’s quite a simple idea that pulses the charge current at 50 milli second intervals up to 6Amps, which is more than enough for a 7Ah battery, from forums I’ve read the success rate is very high, though patience is required as it could take weeks to significantly improve the performance to a point where the battery would be usable. All a bit long winded, but hey I gotta do something otherwise my brain will dry up and come out my ears in powder form. Or did that happen already?
Anyway I may get onto that and will bore you all to tears with it in the future no doubt, BUGGER! Just been offered a job in Brighton, Embedded Systems Test Engineer at £35 an hour but I have no Visual Basic experience, man that sucks! But the girl on the phone sounded very nice and I now have her email address 😉 Blimey, I’m sounding desperate now, no surprise really…Well Chain’s off to the Quacks good luck matey, the charge current on that battery has risen to 5.2 milliamps in the time its taken me to type this, about 1 hour as phone ringing and chatting to Angel on MSN too. Maybe load up that program to design the inductors required for this desulphation circuit, or maybe just wait till I can just buy them, £1.20 each not exactly gonna force me to remortgage is it? Popped in to see Cam today who’s off work with a dodgey arm, had a good old natter, we’re like a couple of old women putting the world to rights when we get together but it’s cool.
July 10th, 2006
Just viewed this site in Internet Explorer and the sidebar seems to be at the bottom??? In Firefox it’s fine, will look into that soon.
July 9th, 2006
To be honest I’m more of a Ninja than most, people who know me will understand! Wahey!!! Well another day another entry, I ache today, overdid it at the gym Friday but thats good. I now have a muscle somewhere, I’m sure I saw it the other day so maybe going to the gym is paying off. 5000 Meters in 23 mins, rowing, not great but hey, good enough for me, had a text from my Brother today who just did 5000 meters in 21 mins 10 secs, which is going some. Mind you he has a free gym at work so able to keep fitter than me, oh and he doesn’t glug through god knows how many units of alcahol a week either. Rang Maria this morning who found it necessary to bounce around until her back went out yesterday. She’s ok, walking around now and no spinal damage. Haven’t heard about Luke the Sinatra singer who was in intensive care after a car crash, hope he’s getting better.
Hmmm…Done sod all really, spoke to Chain and will be commencing lessons in programming/web design 9am Wednesday morning (note to self: buy an A4 pad) I spend far too long on the PC and acheive at the best of times, bugger all. Browsing ebay and watching Ask a Ninja is all good fun but it’s teaching me nothing. I could actually use the time I spend on the PC in a much more creative fashion, and hey, you never know, maybe make a few quid.
Didn’t go for the weekly beer with Cam this Friday, he’s not too well and he’s got a strange shaped right arm, get better soon mate 😉 Nothing on the work front but it is a Sunday, I reckon I’ll be working within 2 weeks, need to be as I have to fund the annual BBQ on my birthday, all readers welcome, unless you have some kind of psycopathic disorder and enjoy grilling people’s testicles. Erm…indeed, not much else really, it’s windy and 18.7 degrees centigrade, might listen to some music, might not. My Daughter Kayleigh was just speaking to me on MSN and started going all teenage on me so I cut that short…err can anyone donate £1,000 to me would be nice, may even set up a donate button on the sidebar for a laugh, I know it works as I donated to Chains blog a while ago…Leave it there I think, take care all.
July 9th, 2006
It seems everyone is having mishaps, out for a beer with the old man yesterday and a guy, only 19 yrs old who sings Frank Sinatra live in the pub and is the Son of the owner was involved in a car crash 3am Friday morning and is now in Intensive Care, today my Sisiter In Law (nearly) was bouncing on the trampoline at my Sisters’ and seriously done her back in. I felt really sorry for her and wish her a speedy recovery, she was carried off in an Ambulance, not to serious we hope, fingers crossed…
Other news, not much, currently got a few agencies in contact for some more suitable work. Now listening to the new album by Muse, Matt Bellamy (Head man in Muse,Guitarist and Vocals) is quite close to the family, his Dad is Georgie who made the first British number one in America in the sixties with Telstar, He gave me a guitar lesson once when I was 12 yrs old, now his Son is probably a millionaire and Muse are Bloody Huge! Haven’t met him but good freinds to his cousins’ Chris and Simon (Bellamy of course). Somehow I missed out, but hey, I wont ponder on that.
Feeling quite good at the moment, bored of life as usual but just need some work to set the books straight, it WILL come my way. I have been told to have clarity this weekend and be confident and things will come my way. This is so true. Nothing is impossible, the world we live in has been built on human desire and alot of blood and sweat! Just need to keep this positive attitude and I can acheive the stuff that made us what we are today.
Hoping my positive outlook rubs off on the important people in my life, you know who you are, sometimes things get tough and you need to grit your teeth and just ride it out. Life Sucks! We all know it.
July 8th, 2006
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