This mornings visit to the specialist at poole hospital has meant I’m onto a new set of drugs. A reducing amount of steroids across 6 weeks, which, should… fingers crossed… set me straight… finally!

It’s been a long fought campaign… the initial salmonella, through the swollen n knackered joints and the seemingly disconnected symptoms… to this destroyer of all (hopefully)

For some reason, I’ve been chucking my empty drug boxes into a black hole next to my desk, I fished them out earlier and they seemed to fall into the shape of a tank.

(ok so maybe I moved them around a little after I got them out the black hole… honestly not much though)

Dread to think what that little machine o’ war cost me in charges!

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Happy New Year of the Rat for tomo everyone!

The annual ridiculously loud firecrackers and “mummy, mummy I saw a dragon” has begun… it usually lasts for 3 nights (before, on and after chinese new year) round these parts… the local good chinese puts it on every year… I went a couple of years ago the meal was amazing!

Tonight was funnier though…

the firecrackers and dragon scared the living bejeeebus out of three winos who were sat on a wall opposite… ear-splitting firecrackers.. a 6 legged dragon and loud drumming. Damned funny. 😀

In honour of this New Year, I thought I’d have a new crazy look for aLUKEonLIFE… ta da… not 100% happy with it yet, but need to get on with some work and make sure I get the book out next week.

Also added some cool little social bookmarking type icons, if you want to know more about these I wrote a post here about it.

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I forgot that today was groundhog day too!!!

Happy Groundhog Day everyone!

UPDATE: Phil Says Six More Weeks of Winter!

Phil’s official forecast as read 2/2/08 at sunrise at Gobbler’s Knob:

Here Ye! Here Ye! Here Ye!

On Gobbler’s Knob on this fabolous Groundhog Day, February 2nd, 2008
Punxsutawney Phil, the Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of all Prognosticators,
Rose to the call of President Bill Cooper and greeted his handlers, Ben Hughes and John Griffiths.

After casting a weathered eye toward thousands of his faithful followers,
Phil consulted with President Cooper and directed him to the appropriate scroll, which proclaimed:

“As I look around me, a bright sky I see, and a shadow beside me.
Six more weeks of winter it will be!”

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from Luke to Pob in 4 secs…

(i’m living up to the silly promise at least!)

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haha – I love the original Godzilla films, where it was guys in monster suits trashing paper mache towns… genius old films, well worth watching for the bad dubbing and hilarious monster fight scenes…

Now, there is “Kaiju Big Battel!” – WWE with men in monster suits AND paper mache buildings! Haha, excellent…

Check out this video intro to a DVD of one of their events… COOOL! My fav is Kung Fu Chicken noodle monster 😀

if this comes to the UK, i’m there! 🙂

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