Archive for January, 2006

Taming the front steps

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

When I was discharged from hospital last Friday I had to face the greatest challenge of my short life, the front steps. To start with, I’d had a restless Thursday night. There was a mix up with my drugs: I thought that the morphine tablets had been ‘written up’ to be given to me regularly, [...]

Peeing in a bottle

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Sometimes people are discovered. Unearthed. Single mothers who have battled all their life are suddenly found to have angelic voices, are whisked away, given some training and a few gowns, and, hey presto, a four record contract. For me, I think it’s time that the tomandzoe.com readership was told that my skill is peeing in [...]

a very big adventure, AKA Tom nearly dies

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

well, just a quick post to let everyone know Tom is ok. for those who we havent been in contact with, this is both surprising and welcome, since he fell 25 metres down a rocky waterfall, snapping his left leg, and getting airlifted out of the bush to hospital on Saturday afternoon.
long story short: [...]

Orange clockwork

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Having visually estimated flow during my PhD, due to the lack of proper instrumentation, and being criticised for it, I have recently been informed of another method: using an orange to calculate flow velocities. The Washington State Department of Ecology endorse this method. Meanwhile, at the US EPA, recent budget cuts mean they only use [...]

30:30

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Made it to uni today in a the best time yet, 30 minutes, 30 seconds. I thought I was going to spew. My time included stopping in at the bike shop to arrange for one side of the flip-flop hub to be converted to a fixed gear. Soon I’ll be away with the fixies, and [...]