Beyond Crazy

I’m home now and on the mend (hopefully). I’d like to thank all those who helped me get here, especially those wonderful people at the University College London Hospital.
While it could be a few months yet till I’m fully functional, I’m already feeling substantially better than before.

Crazy times

As many have realised, I’ve not had much time to blog in the last couple of years.
But I have a little enforced downtime, so I thought I’d post to keep more distant friends in the loop.
So where am I? There’s a clue in my attire.
On the 16th of April 2011, I’m ten floors above the Euston Rd, a resident of an NHS hospital.
Oddly this isn’t a bad thing, because the alternative is not to be here at all.
A while ago I made some poor lifestyle choices, and then a worse one when. I started to have a medical issue that could easily have killed me. I’ve just paid some of the due on those actions; I’ve spent a year turning myself into the paragon of male lifestyle virtue and ditched 90lbs of fat in the process. That was all to spend 5 hours on the operating table, and two days on morphine, but live.
This picture is me at surgery +3, and while I’ve got some scars that trumps anything I that famous Jaws scene, and a few excess external connectors, compared with others in my ward this is small beer.
I wasn’t looking for fallback, just to tell those who don’t see me often that I’m fine. Onwards, and upwards.

20,003 and counting….

Gosh…I just checked in this morning to see that my total views has just reached breached 20 thousand! Amazing. Thanks to everyone that’s come along, and I’ll try to get more new stuff on here soon!

New Terminator TV show now Leaked!

Things are getting weird out there in TV land, now they’ve pre-jumped the shark on the new Terminator TV show! Here’s a review of the pilot episode of the Sarah Connors Chronicles, by that freak of nature Cedric Mengles over at Den of Geek

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Jekyll Episode 4 dissapointment

I was *really* disappointed in the fourth episode of Jekyll screened last night on the BBC. For starters there wasn’t much Hyde, which didn’t help, but it was the insertion of back-story information at this stage seemed to be entirely pointless. The plot I’d enjoyed for the first three was effectively stalled, and with the exception of one revelation, the undetermined origin of Jekyll, it contributed nothing.
I presume this is a six part series, so they’ve two more to get things back on track. But this was the low point for me, and was reminiscent of those end of season episodes American shows have when they’ve run out of money and make one almost entirely of flash-backs.

Nikon AF-S VR 70-300 – is brill!

My lens arrived! Not in time to go to London, but it arrived.
I went out in the middle of the day and shot some wildlife (not literally…) to get some practice. None of the results are amazing, but I’m still getting used to the VR, among other things. But I can see the potential, and it’s enormous.
What I really need to do is get myself to an airshow…I’ve decided. When I’ve taken something genuinely wow, I’ll post it up.

I’m not a patient person

Yesterday I ordered a new Lens for my Nikon SLR on 24 hour delivery, but it hasn’t appeared yet!
My concern is that it won’t arrive till next week, which will entirely stuff my plans to take it to London this weekend and shoot the Red Bull Air Race. I’ll be annoyed if that happens.

Why do companies offer 24 hour delivery, charge you for it and then not send it? Grrr….

 Update:

It’s apparently on it’s way to  me, due to be delivered today…by Royal Mail…that’s the good news.
The bad news is that Royal Mail are currently having a 24 hours strike!