It's been quite warm of late, by UK standards at least, so the workshop has been very warm. In an effort to keep the temprature down I've had the door open as well as the windows. The above is the view from my desk when you look up out of the door. Personally I count my myself lucky that it is. :-)
Okay there is a knack to this one. If you can pull it off you get to see the picture in 3D. You need to make your eyes go 'cross-eyed' if you can. You should then have three or four pictures, not two. (It may help to single out a single item such as a branch or individual leaf.) Three here is the magic number; once you have three (This may take some practice and some trial and error.) Stare hard at the middle image, make sure it is aligned and try to get it to focus. If you can, the image should resolve into 3D. Good Luck!
Sunday, July 31, 2011
3D Tree
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Grim week
Pepper died today. She was hit by a car. Lorii's dad found her trying to drag herself home Yesterday. The vet showed us five fractures on the x-rays. The four points where the pelvis attaches to the spine and her hip joint. The vet felt it was worth seeing if there was any nerve damage to the bladder, but overnight she lost the use of her legs. So we decided to end her suffering. I'll miss her company on the walks to the post office and her squirmed greeting whenever I came home.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Multiple Sclerosis
Lorii is still in hospital, but will hopefully be home soon. Perhaps even later today.
The treatment for her MS is over for now and it is only the fallout from the steroids that is keeping her in. Before the treatment Lorii was a Type 2 diabetic, managing her sugar with diet and drugs. Unfortunately a side effect of the steroids is to send your blood sugar way on up, and for Lori it has just not come down. She is now waiting on Diabetes Specialist nurses to come train her on how to manage her blood sugar with self injected insulin. Whether this promotion to Type 1 diabetes is permanent is unclear, but they won't let her out of the hospital until the nurses have signed off that she is okay.
The doctors have signed of on her MS medication. Another self injected drug called Rebif. Lorii will have to attend a clinic for training on that too. The poor girl is going to look like a human pin cushion.
The treatment for her MS is over for now and it is only the fallout from the steroids that is keeping her in. Before the treatment Lorii was a Type 2 diabetic, managing her sugar with diet and drugs. Unfortunately a side effect of the steroids is to send your blood sugar way on up, and for Lori it has just not come down. She is now waiting on Diabetes Specialist nurses to come train her on how to manage her blood sugar with self injected insulin. Whether this promotion to Type 1 diabetes is permanent is unclear, but they won't let her out of the hospital until the nurses have signed off that she is okay.
The doctors have signed of on her MS medication. Another self injected drug called Rebif. Lorii will have to attend a clinic for training on that too. The poor girl is going to look like a human pin cushion.
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Choices
Well Lorii is still in hospital, will be until Friday, and today chooses which drug out of many to use to treat her MS long term. She now describes the sensation in her left hand as having a really tight rubber glove strangle it. They've given her some new medication to help with that but it is a cumulative one and will take some time to get working. The steroids given to help speed the MS relapse have screwed her blood sugar so much that she is now being taught how to inject insulin. This and the fact that she will have to self inject the new MS drug she has to choose today has really got her down. It didn't help that the doctors came and told her what her choices were, told her she had 24 hours to decide, and left her. Within a few hours of them leaving she had promptly forgotten what her choices were.
Monday, August 02, 2010
Latest news...
Well as I type Lorii is once again in hospital. Another MS relapse this time effecting her left arm. She still has the use of it, but it's both going numb and itching. She should be out soon, they're just keeping her in while they give her some medicine that screws up her blood sugar as a side effect.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Blink
Well the "Weeping Angels" are back on Doctor Who and last time that brought this picture a huge number of views. It'll be interesting to see if that's repeated this time...
Monday, March 08, 2010
Recent Events
So this is the easiest way to catch up with everyone.
On the 1st of February Lorii woke up feeling dizzy. The dizziness made Lorii feel nauseous so she had trouble keeping her pain meds down. Thinking she had caught the Noro Virus that was in the news, Lorii decided to tough it out. However by Friday Lorii was in such bad shape I called an ambulance. The A&E doc thought the dizziness was down to her brain and was uber concerned. Lorii was sent up to the CDU ward where the docs could decide what to do with her. The docs dismissed the brain injury idea and concluded her ears were up the duff. They discharged her on the Monday after a weekend on a drip to rehydrate her with some antiemetics and an appointment at a clinic in two weeks.
By the next Friday (The 12th) Lorii was as bad if not worse than the last time. I again called an ambulance. These guys could see her distress was very real and gave her some morphine before they took her in. We saw the same A&E doc who through a fit over the phone that her previous diagnosis had been over ruled. She was again admitted, but this time the stay was much longer.
Test were done and Lorii was told her carotid arteries were badly blocked and full of dangerous clots. New drugs were administered and Lorii was told to stop smoking, "…or something terrible would happen!" Then a specialist said her arteries were not so bad to need a operation and a MRI was done. The MRI showed demyelising had occurred to her brain. The docs start to prepare us for a diagnosis of MS. Then a neurologist quashes this but orders a lumbar puncture to confirm it one way or another. Lorii is then discharged before the results are in.
So here we are at home. We're now waiting on our GP to come back with the results. Lorii is still dizzy, and can barely walk. If it's not MS then she's suffered a number of mini strokes. Oh and the recession finally bit and I've been laid off. But given the last month I just don't care.
On the 1st of February Lorii woke up feeling dizzy. The dizziness made Lorii feel nauseous so she had trouble keeping her pain meds down. Thinking she had caught the Noro Virus that was in the news, Lorii decided to tough it out. However by Friday Lorii was in such bad shape I called an ambulance. The A&E doc thought the dizziness was down to her brain and was uber concerned. Lorii was sent up to the CDU ward where the docs could decide what to do with her. The docs dismissed the brain injury idea and concluded her ears were up the duff. They discharged her on the Monday after a weekend on a drip to rehydrate her with some antiemetics and an appointment at a clinic in two weeks.
By the next Friday (The 12th) Lorii was as bad if not worse than the last time. I again called an ambulance. These guys could see her distress was very real and gave her some morphine before they took her in. We saw the same A&E doc who through a fit over the phone that her previous diagnosis had been over ruled. She was again admitted, but this time the stay was much longer.
Test were done and Lorii was told her carotid arteries were badly blocked and full of dangerous clots. New drugs were administered and Lorii was told to stop smoking, "…or something terrible would happen!" Then a specialist said her arteries were not so bad to need a operation and a MRI was done. The MRI showed demyelising had occurred to her brain. The docs start to prepare us for a diagnosis of MS. Then a neurologist quashes this but orders a lumbar puncture to confirm it one way or another. Lorii is then discharged before the results are in.
So here we are at home. We're now waiting on our GP to come back with the results. Lorii is still dizzy, and can barely walk. If it's not MS then she's suffered a number of mini strokes. Oh and the recession finally bit and I've been laid off. But given the last month I just don't care.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Album Cover
What a small world! One day I take a picture of a statue in a cemetery. Piddle about in Photoshop a bit. Post it on Flickr to show the world. Now its album art for a band in the USA. Just watch my head swell!
You can check out the band here; Mike Nielson
You can check out the band here; Mike Nielson
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Back To The Balloon Fiesta!
This is Mike Jones picture I mentioned below. If you are a Flickr member please visit this picture and fave it. };))
Flickr
There is a professional photographer on Flickr called Mike Jones. He travels around America in a campervan taking pictures of stunning beauty for a postcard company. A bit of a dream job really. Aside from the utterly stunning (stonking even) pictures in his photostream the banter from his fans and himself always make it worth a visit. Last night he posted a request for fav's (It's a Flickr thing) on a beautiful picture of a balloon launch he took some time ago. It was a joke thing to beat a friend of his who had 800 fav's on one of his pictures and was teasing Mike with it. When I helpfully added my fav He had collected 16030 already! As Mike had promised all who gave him a fav a picture of a dollar I added a comment that I'd give home extra time to send me my dollar, given the large number of fav's collected. Imagine then my surprise to awake today to find a fav from Mike Jones on one of my pictures with a comment too plus a picture of a dollar. Poor Mike must have struggled to find a picture to fave as the start of my photostream is full of pictures of Katie dressed in latex and corsets modeling collars! But he tacked it on this one which was sitting on the bottom of the page. Thank you Mr Jones; a true man of his word.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Holiday
I'm on holiday from work at the moment. Only trouble us there us so much to do I'm not having a very relaxing time. On Friday the whole family went down to the front to see some fireworks. Lorii used her wheelchair and while her dad, George, gave us a lift down to Gynn Square, Jake and I pushed her all the way home up the hill. We then went out for a steak meal. Everyone stuffed themselves and I even discovered what beer tastes like again!
Yesterday I took Katie and Lorii down to Ikea. We spent the whole day there! Spent far too much but we got a lot for our money. Though that said Ikea does seem to have become very expensive all of a sudden.
Yesterday I took Katie and Lorii down to Ikea. We spent the whole day there! Spent far too much but we got a lot for our money. Though that said Ikea does seem to have become very expensive all of a sudden.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Quandry
So I got an email this morning, on Flickr, warning me that it against the (flickr) rules to post pictures for commercial purposes. So I've just dutifully removed all the links I put in the comments back to Wyred Slave. The truth is that the pictures of Katie I have recently posted were taken for a planned update of the website. But I was dead chuffed at how well they had turned out, and wanted to... Well I supose the honest thing to say here is show off! I mean, hell, Katie looks so God damned good. She has a talent for sitting in front of a camera and looking beautiful! Ironically the whole performace leaves her cold, so there is little chance if a career in modeling. Still, at least Katie got to find that out early on. So the pictures posted on Flickr are just the tip of the iceberg. I've loads more, and once the update goes live, you'll be able to see them all there.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Sleep deprived but happy....
Well the neighbours over the road decided to take the caravan on their drive apart this morning; using small boys armed with tomahawks and hammers! Now I'm all for the wanton destruction of these vile things, but feel either the Brainiac or Top Gear aproach is better; i.e. explosives or high speed impact with something huge and hard. Hammers and tomahawks (really!) just take too long and, importantly, make a lot of noise. Only the fact that they were armed to the teeth stopped me from delivering a large piece of my mind in a forceful way. Four hour sleep to be awoken by caravan is not funny.
On a happier note Katie got her A level results this morning too. An A for Graphic Design, an A for Art, a B for English and an E for Maths. This is fantastic! Good enough for a scholarship from the University these grades have secured her place at. So right now I am really, really happy.
On a happier note Katie got her A level results this morning too. An A for Graphic Design, an A for Art, a B for English and an E for Maths. This is fantastic! Good enough for a scholarship from the University these grades have secured her place at. So right now I am really, really happy.
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Arrows Smoke
Well I know I bitch about this town (Blackpool) a fair bit. But I have to admit there are a few nice things about living in this town. One is that I get to take pictures like these from my attic window. :)
Friday, July 31, 2009
Collared Slave
Well we're planning an update of the website for Wyred Slave some time soonish. So with that in mind, and as Katie volunteered, we've been doing a few test shots. Katie is modelling a prototype removable o-ring that quite a few customers have been asking for.
The main thing that has struck me about this and all the other pictures is just how great Katie looks. I know I'm biased but she looks really, really beautiful.
The main thing that has struck me about this and all the other pictures is just how great Katie looks. I know I'm biased but she looks really, really beautiful.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Look into my eyes...
Well whilst cats may do it naturally I have just qualified as a hypnotieraist! I can now actually put letters after my name! Obviously having learnt this new skill I an busy practicing on all willing members of friends and family. Which may explain why everyone is sudenly so docile and keen to please! };o))
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Hypnotherapy
Well I finally find time to make another entry into a very underused blog. Lots has happened, but the biggest news is that next week I attend a course to become qualified in hypnotherapy. Obviously the main aim is to help Lorii with her pain, though the course boasts that I will be able to set up as a business at the end; so the uses could be myriad. If all goes well and I find the time I'll keep you posted....
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