Talked crap with Paul on Friday night, but missed the drags (bummer).
Helped my parents move on Saturday. Buggered!
Had breakfast with Margaret. Did some retail therapy at Target. Had dinner with Andrea and watched Office Space for the nth time. Blogged.
I need more weekend.
I’ve decided that I got the rant out of me, and so I’ve removed it.
Think shiny happy thoughts.
Cool day yet again – lots done, and no major hassles. 🙂
Dinner at Inger’s (Luke is away at Usenix), and Colleen was there (surprise! :). Friends who have nice friends are so cool.
Inger is taking the opportunity to eat meat whilst Luke is away, and she gave me some yummy casserole. Brendan lived up to his nick (TR) towards the end of the night, but he has one nice positive: he’s learning to say my name rather well. We’re up to “nnnn – drew”. 🙂
After dropping off Colleen, I managed to feel like an old fart. People were overtaking me left right and center, and I didn’t care. What’s happening?
Driving across the Westgate late at night is fun as well – the lightning was literally rolling across the suburbs. As I was pulling into Point Cook, it barrelled down from Hoppers Crossing to the bay, just like very very large, ultra fast approach beacons for a runway.
Love lightning. 🙂
Went back to work today. Freaky feeling driving to work – I seriously thought it was Monday.
That illusion was shattered when I arrived at work to a nearly crushing pile of work. It’ll take me the better part of a week to get through it. 🙁
Was going to go out and see a film, but my neck was just not up to it. Theoretically have dinner tomorrow night with Inger and a surprise guest, but I will see if I’m in the mood. I’ll know in the morning when I get up.
Almost finished porting putty to .NET. Converted it away from using its own 64 bit integer classes and only have one more struct to get the linker to believe in. I reckon with a bit of clever manipulation, I can put putty on a bit of a diet even from its current lean and mean size.
Spent the day at home today. Initially, I thought that my neck was good enough to go to work, but as I started using it, that dissapated quickly.
When I changed the dressing, just ewwwwwwwwwwww! It was painful to get off, and painful to replace.
I’ll be glad when it no longer needs dressings. At least now the packing is out, which is good.
But other than that, achieved nothing today.
My sebacious cyst finally got the better of me.
I had it “dealt” with this morning by three doctors with roughly a year’s experience between them. I showed up at the hospital bright and definitely far too early. I was shown in pretty promptly, which is cool – I took along a book expecting to be all day.
Then the needle came. Strangely enough, although I am a complete wuss when it comes to needles, I couldn’t feel it. Either the pain from the neck was so intense that the needle was lost in the noise, or the skin is dead.
After a bit of slicing and dicing, they started squeezing. Imagine a huge whitehead and six sets of fingers all going for the same thing. About an hour, some nitrous oxide gas, and many bloody gauze swabs later, it was significantly smaller. The pain was extraordinary.
At one stage after an extra incision, all hell broke loose – the pus / blood started coursing down my neck and torso and they pressed real hard on my neck. I could almost hear them thinking “whoops!”.
I now have a 2cm slice (no stitches) in my neck, and it hurts to look left or right or up or down. Although I feel like someone has torn me a new hole in the side of my neck, it’s so much less painful than before.
I hope I never have to do this again.