Not a cloud
Today was a classic Townsville ‘winter’ day–blue skies (literally not a cloud in the whole sky all day!), max temp of about 25 deg. C., and a slight offshore breeze. The dry season appears to be upon us.
Here’s a shot of maggie at sunset, to go with the new ‘dry season’ header. Kiki, you’re not missing anything.
Tonight I went over to Caroline’s place for a tasty dinner of wild rice and Buddha’s Tears tea, which is available here. It’s tasty:
Buddha Tears Tai Mu Long Zhu $35- 50g
This prized long white leaf tea is skillfully hand rolled into little balls known as Buddha tears. They unfold to produce a magnificent aroma and lingering after taste.
Zoe stayed home to do work, so I bought her some of Karin’s cake (she grew up in the Black Forest, so she’s basically your go-to girl for all things cake!).
For those of you playing at home, the invertebrate stats worked, but I’d used the wrong data (accidentally included the unidentified bugs), so had to do it ALL again. It was a total pain in the arse, but now it’s done. In the end, it only took 34 folders of files (at least five files per folder, with up to 13 worksheets per file, with up to 350+ rows of data per worksheet). Yuk! Now I have two days to write the rest before my parents arrive for some R&R. I would like to go on the record:
I will never work on invertebrates again–little fuckers
I also went to the hospital on Friday for a check-up. My leg isn’t healing fast enough, so there going to take out the distal locking (bottom) screw in two weeks time. I will then have six weeks before another check up. If it isn’t fixed by then, there’s talk of doing a full reconstruction using a bone graft from my pelvis. This would be seriously un-fun and something that I would dearly love to avoid at all costs!
June 4th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
That would totally suck a fat ass!! Is it cause you’re doing too much on it? Or just cause thats the way it goes? Can you do anything else to get it healing faster?
Acupuncture?
Water therapy?
Etc….etc?
BTW. like the new header, can we please have a full size version of that pic to get us through the bitter winder months
Sydney has been cranking too:
Lateef, DJ Shadow and Mos Def are playing together at the Hordern on 23/7/2006
Hmmm….wonder if I should go!
June 4th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
You may have the photo.
June 5th, 2006 at 9:13 am
Awesome sunset shots tom
June 5th, 2006 at 10:12 am
Tomo, stay off the fixie for another few weeks and do some couch time and your phisio exercises to get your leg ‘fixed’ instead. I would have thought that having part of your pelvis scraped out to fix your leg would be much more of a pain in the arse than disecting invertebrates. Thinking about it, invertebrates are lucky son’s of bitches that they don’t have bones to begin with! TT and I were puzzling over the fate of the Ti rod in your shin the other day - when does that come out? Can you keep it if it does?
The sunset pic is the money, it’s on my desktop at work now, attracting many passing comments about the sad state of the rainy, Sydney world.
June 5th, 2006 at 10:31 am
You’d be surprised!
They are going to take out the screw only, at the moment. I’m going to ask to keep it. The rod etc… will stay in there permanently. Unless they decide to swap it out. But, I went in this morning to talk with them again about the screw thing and was told that the x-rays from Friday, “look encouraging”.
Apparently, the lower Tibia is one of the slowest healing bones in the body, due to the fact that it has very poor blood supply. In addition, when they put the rod/nail in there, they cut off the blood supply to the inner 20-30% of the bone for about 3 months. This extends the healing process–not to mention that I fell 25m down a water fall and got owned!
June 5th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Picture looks awesome - I cannot believe it has been over a year since we were on the Island and the Tully extremists dominated! I agree with lock though it sounds like a bit of rest is needed mate, gotta get that leg in shape.
You said “Today was a classic Townsville ‘winter’ day–blue skies (literally not a cloud in the whole sky all day!), max temp of about 25 deg. C., and a slight offshore breeze.”
Just a reality check - in London, Summer has just started and we are looking at 20 deg C and a fair bit of cloud. Not happy Jan!
Editors note–check out the weather at Covent Gardenhere.
June 6th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
Perhaps a few blood-thinning ales will improve blood flow to the lower Tibia? Actually, knowing how conscientious you are, I’m sure you’ve tried that already.
Dry your eyes Phildo - in Sydney it’s about 10 and pissing down!
June 6th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
poor old lock, awaiting moderation again are we?!