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36 hours
Posted by warriet in bipolar, Dear Diary, mentalist, Uncategorized on November 28, 2010
36 hours was the longest I’ve been away from home for I cannot remember how long and last night was apparently the coldest UK day for many years. I have known colder but in counties that were far more used to cold (and heat), any weather event that takes England out of its fairly narrow comfort zone and seems to plunge the whole country into chaos (if you believe the press, radio and TV – I guess it makes foe easy copy for the deadline driven news teams. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-mint is working but nothing interesting to see – the pigeons have disappeared, guess they have found somewhere warmer to huddle and crap on. The sparrows are flitting around and the I can hear the odd crow. Idle sort of day today – give myself the benefit of the doubt and attribute it to weekend recovery. Very cold outside and getting colder. Lots of excitement about expected snow but I don’t think we’ll see much until the morning http://www.raintoday.co.uk/ shows the approach but looks as though most of it will be dumped on the East Midlands. Some excitement tomorrow, expecting a Virgin person in the afternoon with the 50Mb router – will be interesting to note the improvement although of course I don’t at present have enough computing power to use it all. http://uksnowmap.com/ also seems to be accurate so far and provides an interesting way of actual reports from around the UK.
Another day, no snow so far which is a Good Thing as I am expecting two different people today. Mildly excited about the 50Mb upgrade – will be very interesting to see how much my bandwidth has improved. http://www.speedtest.net/ shows nearly 20Mb down and almost 2Mb up which is pretty good; see http://www.speedtest.net/result/1051022948.png, hopefully will be able to post an illustrative update some time later today. Very still with light snizzle at the moment, wish I had an outside max/min thermometer, but I think I can manage without. Not getting going at all today but guess that it’s down to the drongoid effects of the Seroquel. I have at least tidied beneath the desk so that the Virgin person can do whatever s/ he needs to install the new modem/router. Wonder which one I’ll get? Also will need more computer power but the more I look at http://www.ebuyer.com/, the less I know :-) Virgin just ‘phoned to say that he is on his way (expecting a second call when his satnav does not actually get him here).
this is neat!
Posted by warriet in Dear Diary, Uncategorized on November 24, 2010
just tripped over a Linux blogging tool which naturally uses much less resource than running WordPress via a browser. I like efficient! and this appears to much liter than other available and means that the publishing process is quick and simple. Am not really a geek but I do like stuff to be efficient. Don’t know where the day went but I have eaten well, maintained dialogue sin a chatty blog http://hopisen.wordpress.com/ so now settling down to watch some NCIS.
Just seen a press release in which I have been misquoted a little but hey-ho, that’s what happens – I wonder if I or Sarah Sharp will be contacted? Probably not unless an editor somewhere wants a few inches not otherwise occupied by student riots or Korean wars and takes Time To Change to heart. The only real blogging I’ve done has be on another’s where some contributors say quite daft things (query Daily Fail reader(s)? But today has turned into one of those do nothing days and the best I can do is go to sleep now zzzzzz
Misquote referred to above has been corrected as soon as I reported it, hooray, big thumbs up to Rethink. 10 hours solid and since when I’ve been on the ‘phone most of the time but now back to seeing what’s out there http://england.shelter.org.uk/news/november_2010/social_housing_reforms_are_naive
quite alarming as is http://england.shelter.org.uk/news/november_2010/benefit_losses_revealed and indicative of how determined the Tories are to dismantle the state we won’t appreciate until it’s gone. Of course I hope for a poll tax moment
And why is nobody very exercised by what may be about to happen in a faraway country of which we know little i.e. the as yet to be reunified Korea.
I just hope that US and China are currently involved in active negotiations as it is those two who will be involved in the hot war that will result if North Korea kill any more South Koreans. I think that the risk is that Pyongyang push Seoul too far is a clear and present danger, I hope that whatever is happening in the North Korean power circles might actually result in a peaceful settlement and that the North rapidly unifies with the South and that the prosperity enjoyed by the South is extended to the North.
Feeling disconnected and thinking that I need to go to bed at 2300 so that I can surface i n a timely and alert way on Saturday morning for an expedition I am looking forward to very much.. Just found some really dismal news: kettling children? http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2010/11/children-police-kettle-protest
that really is too much especially since they were just school children, have the police learnt nothing are they really going to let themselves used as Cameron’s bully boys and girls?
Starting over (yet again)
Posted by warriet in Dear Diary, Uncategorized on September 15, 2010
Nothing blogged since April, computer not on for weeks, tenuous connection with the rest of the world via the phone. Not good, but guess that’s the nature of the beast called depression. Months of little more than daytime TV and inadequate food and being miserable. Depression for me is more the absence of feeling than anything else… And not sure I remember how to do this blogging stuff whether from the phone or a desk. Bleugh!
Pity can’t just be done by thinking at some sort of digital capture device (mental note to google for mind reading software, is there an iPhone app? Short answer. no not yet but maybe, given the rate of technological change, perhaps in my life time)
Just had to share this one… http://twitpic.com/2rvi8m in the event, the Frome boy did well today.
[Note for future reference: this is easier from a regular keyboard and a 17" screen]
Trying out http://www.moodscope.com/ Totally distracted/dismayed by hurting teeth but glad the central heating still works, better go lie down for a bit…
….best make understanding blogging my project for the week with the goal of only keying one thing once. hmm will get brain-ache working this one out…
Think it’s time for bed, perhaps the Sequerol is beginning to do something, feeling more positive now than I have for aeons
one day later: Sequerol seems to be helping….
just another manic depressive’s journal
Posted by warriet in Dear Diary on January 6, 2010
Time to start blogging and see how it goes! Write a little on the phone and see if it gets magically transported to the world. And it is magic practised by magical people but lets be practical, after a sleepless night time for strong coffee and a hearty breakfast before I get on with whatever is next. Have taken my morning Citalopram and vitamins. Will need to go out at some point today, wonder how many terabytes of snow pictures will be packeting around the world today? OK seems to be working pretty well but really must eat something. Still working my way through Christmas card acknowledgements but I know what I need to do – if I have a spare moment, I’ll start getting this year’s ready, yes and pigs will fly.
Apparently some people do though. Rattle of letter box but not post, a pity because I am opening post as soon as received. Ditto e-mail and I only keep 20 or so at a time nowadays.
Back home from an expedition to the shops to get some cash, buy some electricity (this country’s energy consumption would plummet if prepayment meters were mandatory) and visit my favourite butcher for bacon. sausages and his definitive pasties. Walk in the snow marred by two misfortunes, the first was that I reached the shop without my wallet so back home empty handed; by the time I got there for the second time I has developed the staggers and fell down couple of times. having to be helped back onto my feet my a chap older than me and a hooded youth who broke off from snowballing to come to my aid. Very kind of both. But being feak and weble? Herumph! But I have rearranged my seating and will be able to continue from my bed with the little iBook if necessary. Think the chair change has already helped at least I went the shop and back without falling over and even shovelled some snow from the back door path. Wonder where the camera is? Just found the site that inspired me http://www.allaboutbipolar.com/ but I think I need to lie down for a bit…. Still haven’t slept, now writing from the little iBook – nice to have confirmation that this works any platform and the fact that WordPress manages version control in the that I was offered the option to merge changes made on another machine.
Another day – very cold out there – I like being up before the rest of the world, let’s hope that I can get back to my natural sleep pattern. Washing up done, time for some more tidying methinks.
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another long and productive day in The Mint. e-mails dealt with, Facebook fun, people reconnected with, a win/win/win car deal suggested and discussed with people who know me well enough, and him I trust to tell me if I am showing signs of mania (mental note to give Dr Hak http://www.warriet.com/ so that he can monitor me remotely for signs of ‘elevated mood’. Eaten well today and will again tomorrow, out to a friend’s for dinner with an O2 payg usb dongle which will get him on-line with his new laptop. Phone now receives e-mails from all my address. My neighbours telling me how much better I’m looking, the flat’s heating is coping very well with the sub zero temperatures. Plan some serious food shopping on Saturday in advance of Sunday/Monday forecast snowfall. Fingers crossed – this computer set-up is serving me very nicely although I am slightly anxious about the lack of a reserve machine although, since of necessity I grasped the basic concept of ‘cloud’ computing fairly early I would survive a catastrophic event more without too much grief as all my data is backed up somewhere on the internet. Finance is minimal but in order. Tax return has to be submitted very soon but my affairs are in basically good order so really it’s just a matter of filling in the on-line forms to file. The coming election is going to be interesting and if the political parties have any sense they will realise how they can use the internet to mobilise a large part of the electorate which will help decide the complexion of the next government. I have already offered my i-services to David Heath, MP whose seat of Somerton & Frome is in the Tories ten ten of ‘must win’ seats. Has not been so interesting since the Wilson era. Anyway, now 02:10 so way past my bed time so time to power the confusers and myself down…
up bright and early and thinking about breakfast. bacon and eggs today but of course first some coffee. Phew! first contact with he tax office to ask for my reference number so that I can file on-line – deadline is 31 January so it’s going to be tight. But Graham I spoke to knew who I am and told me what are the initial steps – he will write to me with my tax reference number so that I can register. I don’t think I’ll be liable for any income tax this year my taxable earnings are probably below my tax code but I need HMRC to tell me that. Definitely time for breakfast now.
Middle of the night again 
very tired but not sleepy BBC World Service in the background, fresh coffee and more than enough cigarettes to make it through the very (out there) cold night. And another full and productive day which started with a proper breakfast. But what have I done? In nor chronological or significant order, initiated the on-line tax return process – has to be filed by 31 January and I do believe I will have time.
Don’t you just love it when plan comes together? After yesterday’s first solo outing into town to post spare key to Comfort, get a free £10 voucher added to my gas meter card, order a copy of Clive’s http://clivewild.co.uk/ book from http://www.huntingravenbooks.co.uk/ , have a quick chat with the Microbitz man then walk through the snizzle up Catherine Hill was considerably less effort than I’d feared. Now showered and dressed to be ready for taxi to take ne to Wells for a http://www.flourishhomes.co.uk/home/ business meeting that includes lunch then back to The Mint before, subject to snow forecast. Back in touch with Juliete who has been fulsome about this morning’s Facebook pictures of work in progress quick play with the Toshiba’s webcam
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Haven’t written anything for a few days but galvanised by seeing http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/about/ I shall now do a bit a day
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hmm, this bit can be the general purpose ramble, with other headings as they occur to me, not sure about writing in bed but since I read as part of my end of day window, trying writing instead and there is a comforting warmth emanating from this venerable iBook
