Eunos Chump

Hospital again today, this time for a biopsy for an issue completely unrelated to my knackered leg.  This involved chopping out a chunk inside my cheek and then stitching it up, and it's bloody painful!  Good job I had a big lunch at the pub before going (what a fantastic excuse for binging).  Hungry again now, but I can only eat soft things... like the fresh cream scone in the fridge.   Had a new tyre put on the Benz, which cost much less than a tank of petrol.  That doesn't seem right.   

I changed the oil on Mrs B's motor today, AND I've been out driving again.  How'd you like that, Normals?  Apart from that it's been a bit of a frustrating weekend, it was perfect tinkering weather.  Getting quite worried about my mental condition now; I've watched X-Factor and Strictly Ballroom over the weekend... willingly.  What's to become of me?

I rarely get any pain from the leg now, and I'm a lot more capable on my sticks, so I'm returning to the land of the living on Thursday - I'm going into work.  Chipperometer sits at 7 out of 10.  I have not discovered any new talents, hobbies, etc, I've just done all the normal things I do, at a considerably slower pace.  How dull.

It's almost 7 days to the exact minute as I write this, and the Chipperometer has fallen to 5 out of 10.  I've been feeling generally ill the past couple of days, and a bit short tempered.  I tried reading my Cisco training manual but fell asleep after a few pages... I did go out (for a hop around Toys'r'Us), but was completely knackered after about 10 mins.

I'm starting to think of my crutches almost as new limbs.  They don't have names yet, but as my cabin fever grows worse, I'm sure that situation will change.  I have sticky-taped a Xmas tree light bulb to the back of my neck, to prevent them taking over my mind.  I got the idea from a film, I can't remember how it ended but my sticks tell me it all went swimmingly.

OK, not exactly crippling pain but it does get pretty sore at times.  I went for a hobble up the road on my sticks this afternoon to get some exercise,  I need to build upper body strength and get my right leg used to the extra load.  The cuts on my hand have now healed so at least I don't keep opening them up everytime I need to hop about. Still about 9 out of 10 on the chipperometer, despite receiving free tickets for Silverstone next weekend (cheers Rob!), which I obviously can't attend now.  I can't go to the MX5 National Rally tomorrow either (but that would have involved 5-6 hours driving in that noisy skateboard anyway). Days seem very long now, it's as if an extra 4 hours have been inserted somewhere between 10am and 8pm.  I've been resisting the temptation to return to World of Warcraft... but I'm weakening... like heroin, it promises the sanctuary of oblivion,  but at the bargain price of only £15 a month.  The neighbours brought me a basket of fruit y...

I'd like it known that I have a survived a horrible, firey accident, with just a ruptured achilles tendon.  I would like  that, but the actual reality is rather different: Discover high-tech device that secures the wastegate actuator (a paperclip) has failed. Fit new paperclip, take car for furious 20 mile test drive. Park car outside house, apply handbrake, exit car. Mrs B notices car is rolling down the road on a Herbie-style adventure. I set off in pursuit, somehow ending up in collision with ground.  Ankle no longer functions, pain. Car collides with neighbour's Astra, smashing rear light cluster. Neighbour upset (same bloke who's fence I damaged with Mr's B B'ingo last year), but his car undamaged. Go to A&E department at 11pm, leave at 3:30am with leg in plaster. What happened with the handbrake?  I suspect as the blazing hot rear discs cooled, it became ineffective.  There's no chance of me investigating anytime soon though. I'm on crutches for 8 ...

Was on holiday again last week, in south western Wales. Temperatures were hitting almost 16 degrees at times, and for 10 minutes on Thursday I saw the sun. I was so moved I took a photo (above). That's Oakwood theme park, it's OK but it ain't Alton Towers. Russ is Jedi now, we went to see The Clone Wars and it was quite good. Quite good if you like the animated Batman series, or Pokemon, or any other trashy kids TV. Russ's lightsabre cost £4.50 from Oakwood, and was made in China. Like the film it's rubbish, but fun. Look! It's Torchwood! We spent an afternoon at Cardiff bay, despite the serious risk of John Barrowman appearing out of the ground and snogging me. He is very good looking though... I don't know... might have been up for it :) There's a Dr Who Exhibition there, but it's considerably less impressive than it looks on the website. There's some good stuff on show, but it's all static and quite small. Wow, it's Sausages the D...