Carpe Diem…I’m still here!
Awright troops here’s ra score. Wur gonny be posting oan ma blog right.
Oops who let Ned Lass aff her ASBO? Ok, Ok, it’s me, I’m back from hiatus, weather’s awfie nice there. Did ye miss me? No, don’t answer that, not that there’s anyone really reading this. So where’ve I been, what’s been going on and why in the name of the wee man is Quine Online still not revamped, ye’ve only had a decade plus to get your act together? If I Quine was my child the wean would have been taken into care by now.
OK in no particular order life events:
- two dead cats
- one hard drive failure
- change of job
- a couple of close relatives with cancer
Fair to say my mind’s been on other things and somehow I needed to focus my energies rather closer to home.
The “Great Hard Drive Failure” of 2004 was really the start of my blogging break. Tsk, tsk no backup and you a geek? Well no actually. I did have a full backup but my blogging tool was Radio Userland (a desktop tool) and I couldn’t be arsed with all the faffing involved to get all my archives restored. I liked Radio Userland but it gets slower and slower the more content in the object database and very CPU intensive so I was already thinking of switching blog tools, the hard drive failure on my laptop rather took that decision for me. Not to say that I haven’t blogged in the interim, my reality TV shows have been doing really well and I’m still picking up over 3,000 hits a day here for Big Brother for Pete’s sake.
New job! Ya beauty! My new stomping ground is Social Work and online systems for people learning to be Social Workers. I really get a kick from thinking I’m working on things that can really benefit society so I’m happy as a pig in the proverbial.
Cancer. The big ‘C’. This is a really poignant day for me to restart blogging. A Scottish actor called Ross Davidson, nurse Andy in the original series of East Enders died from a brain tumour and sadly the young girl who was given an overdose of radiation in her cancer treatment at the Beatson was reported dead today, Radiation overdose teenager dies [BBC]. Not good news. I’ve had an anxious wait till this evening to find out news about a relative with a reoccurrence of breast cancer who’d had a scan after feeling poorly. The really good news is that the consultants say she is now in remission, all of us are in shock, everyone was bracing themselves for the worst. October is breast cancer awareness month in th UK. Her ‘bad’ symptoms turned out to be unrelated to the cancer and it’s worth noting that she took part in a medical trial at the Beatson and this may be in part to explain for her improvement. Now the Beatson has had some bad publicity in recent times but there are some fantastic things going on research-wise and the Maggie’s Centre at the Western is a godsend, another relative had a tumour removed at the Western and is thankfully doing well. Good news for me and my family and in turn for all of us, this bloody disease, surely the 21st century has to see us crack it.
Techie stuff and the usual guff and faffing with templates to follow but for now Scottish lass is alive.
“Good times and bum times,
I’ve seen them all and, my dear,
I’m still here…” (Steven Sondheim)
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