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Neck is still really painful, swollen and hot. Didn't wake up until 10am and then only to throw up ugh



Felt better for a couple of hours afterwards, came in here and found that americans don't have digestive biscuits - anyhow, think I solved the translation problem (Graham Crackers, if you're interested)



Headache came rushing in and threw up again, so I stopped listing stuff on the database. Felt fine about an hour later, weird.



Had an eMail from Jeremy at school. They've found out I cropped the edges [and Wally] off the 'Where's Wally' poster, shame they realised ... it had kept people looking for about a week



Think I'll go rate some whelps in case I want to throw up again ....

It feels like I've been hit in the jaw but no - there's one little spot that really really hurts when I press it (so I can't stop pressing it, of course), I got this huge hot swollen lump under the right side of my jaw and a sore throat - doc says its glandular fever :(



Anyhoooo I get tomorrow off because of this, gotta back up the PC for Dad, then I'll see how much I can add to the database b4 I fall at my post LOL



Nothing waiting for the database, rated all whelps and new portfolios, answered all mail and checked out House Forums .... gonna go to bed now 6:30pm



Nite nite

Today I worked at a 'I know it all' guy's house



He was trying to put in a new pond pump while I cleaned the pond itself out. He kept on saying that with this "all singing all dancing" pump he wouldn't have to have us back to clean it out



I tried to tell him that a filter would help more than a pump but, hey, what did I know. So I watched this guy assemble his new pump, twice I tried to tell him to take the plastic plug out of the outlet pipe before he put the hose on it, but no, I was to "get on with my job"



Anyhow he switched on the power and ran the pump (unprimed but eh), the thing went off like a fire sprinkler - laugh ... I couldn't stop!



Boss asked me to help the guy out, so I undid the hose and pulled the plug out and put hose back on - boss charged him £20 for that



Anyhow this guy has a 2500L pump in a 750L pond, so his fish are going to be way fit swimming against that current 24/7 LOL - and, without a filter, all that's going to happen is the gloop is going to get a huge oxygen intake and grow faster but at least the filth is going to get evenly spread really quickly across the whole pond



Some people should just listen ....



Got onto VR really late, found someone who downrated me - went off to look and, sure enough, they're a PM that I probably rated when they started their profile - instead of asking me to rerate, they just downrated me - well, stuff them

tsk



and double tsk



I had better explain that when you leave a UK hospital with a blow to the head, the people who are going to look after you for the next 24 hours get like an advice sheet - my step mum actually read the thing



Everytime I went to the toilet - she worried, if I fell asleep - she worried and woke me up, if I stayed awake - she worried, at 3am [3 AM!] I was slurring my speech - she worried



So I had today off but not allowed near the computer until 6pm



tsk

It is a little known fact that I do a martial art called Aikido. I'm not very good at it but, because it was cheaper, I signed up for a year right off so I am kind of stuck doing it.



I have a green belt which I think I earned for falling over and getting bruised. There is not a hope that I am going to get my blue belt soon. We do it on Thursday's elective sports afternoon.



I've just got back early. I was stood there all ready and then 'wham'. Sensei walked over and said "Next time block it", so I reply "OK ... did he kick me or punch me?"



Sensei sort of lunged at me, I thought he was just mad about my little joke but, no - he caught me just as everything went black.



I've been prodded and poked and I'm OK but I have a headache this big {----------------------}, everyone is being clucky so I might just go to bed :)

We had to watch the UK Chancellors Budget speech - Lord that was boring!



I also had the Muppets Christmas Carol on DVD, we were flipping between the two and playing 'spot the difference'

I looked through the people who have me on their fave journal lists (thanks guys)



I actually know these people - they can spell and I have a great deal of time for each and every one of them



They put up with me as I go bouncing around the site and, mostly, reply to my posts with more dignity than my post deserve.



That is quality

Saturday I was only working down the road, that was neat. I washed two cars in the customers' drives. Usually I have to go the garage and wash cars on the forecourt. Hope it happens again because I got to come home for my lunch :)



Mothers Day went OK - its always a really awkward time - but this year, for the first time ever in nine years, I bought a 'for a special person' card and some flowers (£2.99 what a rip off!) for my step-mum - she cried, I replaced my stiff upper lip with a blubbery lower one but managed to hold it together



Practised my debate defence on some fish as I cleaned out their home, it seemed to work - so tomorrow, the opposition won't know what hit them



I've been having some problems with links on here, if they begin www (mostly member-written links) it brings up the page OK but logs me out. Reported it to Cancer but he can't find anything wrong. It wasn't so bad I just open those links in a new tab, so I don't miss out as I wander over the site clicking everything .... except



I had to make a little change to the House Eternal Adopt A Whelp page - that seems to be my job, as I clicked submit I got logged out and when I came back the page was blank ! Eek



Luckily images has a back up, so I stuck some words in and will wait for the back up to arrive :)



Think thats all for now .... good night reader, where-ever you are

I took a "HOW EVIL ARE YOU" Quiz and thought I would get a 'you are the devil's spawn' or something. Instead I get this

How evil are you?

There's two real vampires stalking the forums right now, honest, they told me they were so it's got to be



They've done so much but don't actually explain anything, they just sort of tell you and, if you ask questions, its suddenly all *secret* ... but its OK they've been sent here to 'save mankind' ... phew



One of them messaged me to complain that I had listed a 19th century Vampire Hunters Case in the VR database, something about hunting his kindred. I thought long and hard about my reply, wrote several long explanations but deleted them - in the end I sent "Yes" Hey, it'll give him something to think about for the next few hundred years.

I've changed my mind on the temporary URL changes from https://www.vampirerave.com ... to http://72.51.43.246



OK its caused a few broken links but ... the main thing has to be that the software filters here don't recognise it as one of the 'only to be allowed in break time' sites



so its back to normal here, one page open for the Tudors of England - the other for VR - LOL



... epic

VR is being stupid atm



Everytime I call up a profile, it downloads it nicely - then refreshes to show 404 URL not on this server - its happening on just about every page i visit, I kinda doubt this is going to reach my journal

I'm off to bed with a really contended feeling tonight



I caught up with all the database stuff and entries have now topped 1,500 at last - my next self-imposed milestone is 2,000



Rated the whelps, posted a couple of things into the main forum - it helped that we had a decent string of people posting, yup we didn't agree but we didn't agree in a constructive and dignified way



I 'helped a whelp' with a profile problem - then I read this in their journal



'Profile is now finially updated. Thanks artemka for the hint that made it work. :)'



Awwwww wasn't that nice, I'm now going to bed with this warm snuggled feeling :)



Night night reader wherever you are

Logged in this lunchtime to find SIX messages - wooooo that's a record - answered them all



Dealt with the procurator queue, rated the whelps and posted in the House forum ... and now writing in here 'til the bell goes



all crammed into 45 mins ... why the rush?



Well ... two members of the swim team are sick (so they say) so I am having to travel quite a long way to a meet tonight and probably not going to be on later, wasn't planning to but that's the way the cookie crumbles in sport LOL



anyhow gotta go .....

So there I was on Friday night, home alone - posting to the forum about 8pm when all of the lights went really bright ... really, really bright and the everything shut down with a bang.



We're used to power cuts where we live but this was something else. We also have this lamp on the ceiling at the top of the stairs that come on when the power fails, so I wasn't too bad off.



I found my flashlight and went to peer at the fusebox, all the little switches were all the same way round so I figured it wasn't that. Went to go to the neighbours house when I saw they were all dark too except for torchlight waving around.



I watched a fire engine go by, which was really cool in the completely dark street.



Power came back on about two hours later, it seems a car hit a pole somewhere.



Anyhow the surge protector on the computer had saved the computer but windows was all messed up. Luckily Dad backs up everything to a portable hard drive on 1st of every month - I drew the short straw and had to reinstal windows and everything else : I've been working at it I guess about 10 hours now (had to stop to go to work) and I'm slowly getting there - I think I may have lost ALL my Sims tho :(

Weird, VR is a little 'lumpy' atm - it's nothing concrete but its just small things



You visit a fave journal with a 'new' flag, but when u go there there's nothing for the new month - go back for a second look and there's the entry



Pages just loading the top part, then browser shows 'done' - click 'refresh' and the page scoots right on up.



Prolly the new server transfer ... *nods wisely*