shopping

The other day, for my diet, I bought a few bananas and a large piece of very nice steak. Guess which cost more.

recovery

wonders will never cease. Except for the occasional throat clearing and nose blowing, I appear to have gotten over the lurgy. Here endeth the comments about my health.

Now to my weight....I'm going on the week long diet to kick start my healthy living again. I will tell you how much I lose when I lose it (but not my actual weight. heh)

My thesis is sitting at the 2nd last draft stage and I need to read through and comment - but i need a full day. I'm also up to my gills in sequencing experiments to combine my genome for a paper I want to write. Soo busy right now.

Last weekend I shopped. Pavilion was closing down and I bought lots of stuff including a clock in the shape of a die to add to my 6 sided dice collection. I also bought these really nice green strappy high heel sandals from a little dress shop that I only went into to get a key to use the Urban Quarter shopping centres toilet. Expensive loo trip, but cheap shoes.

This weekend I may read my thesis after doing more shopping. I'd like to check out that clothing shop more thoroughly.

i'm thinking about quoting Dr who

A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but is by no means the most interesting - dr Who, from 'the time warrior"

This may end up being my quote in the front of my thesis...can I quote imaginary characters?

ill - my new normal state of health

I still have the cough. In fact, on Friday I had a relapse, spent the weekend in bed and I'm back to really bad cough. I don't however have a fever, so I had my fluvax today. The doc said that I should come back if I get any fever or productive cough. I'm suspicious my tonsils may be involved, but doctors are very hesitant about taking them out now, so even if they are, I bet I'd have to have this for 6 months before they'd consider it...must go and have a coughing fit now.

The Stargate season 9 DVD box set

will be on sale on the 17th of August. I have it in my diary. Seven has just started showing this season (late, on Thursday nights, with no advertising). By my calculations, even if seven shows an episode every week (not a good bet), they'll only be half way through before I can buy the whole season - which I will. Seven hates science fiction.

misc. et. al.

I'm still coughing. Will this disease ever end!

I didn't go to the show (no point in ensuring I stay sick for the rest of the year) and I'm sad. It was cheaper this year than it has been for some time and it looked good. I like the show.

I need to get a flu vax. I must remember to ring my doctor.

This long weekend (show day was monday) I did a lot of lying around coughing. In between bouts, I leveled the dish washer, planted a coffee bean, started to design a new online game, started to type up the names of my brothers books and determined that thyme is a really good companion plant for cabbage. I planted individual cabbage plants near each other some time ago, surrounded by different herbs. They all got chewed nigh unto death except the one nestled in the thyme.

I also managed to delete the sound driver on my computer by accident. I didn't realise it was the sound driver. I thought it was some insignificant extra program I'd installed. I then found that resetting to an earlier system setting, although it should work in XP, kept failing at the last section and freezing up. This is disconcerting. I was assuming I could rest if I screwed something up.

An online search determined that lots of other people have done what I have done and finding the driver requires that you know what your motherboard is. One opened computer later...I found the original disk for that motherboard in my files and happily reinstalled (only wasted about 2 hours and a bunch of my online time).