| How Stay At Home Dads Maintain Their Masculinity, and other bullshit... |
[May. 17th, 2012|01:06 am] |
I was chopping wood for the fire today, and I was suddenly reminded of the documentary I was almost a part of. They were looking for stay at home dads to interview. They wanted to find out about what it was like to be a stay at home dad in the modern world, and one of the things they said was, "What does a stay-at-home dad do to maintain his masculinity?"
Now the reason I was still willing to be in the doco at this point was because I had plenty to say on the subject. The core of it was, if being a stay-at-home dad is a threat to your masculinity, the problem isn't with being a stay at home dad. ( Ranty post with naughty words follows... ) |
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| Baking bread |
[May. 9th, 2012|02:56 pm] |
Baking some bread for the first time in ages. Just a basic white loaf. I have the kids helping, which makes it slower and more interesting in various ways, both enjoyable and less so.
At the moment we're waiting for the dough to rise. I took adavantage of the waiting time to tell Tyrannosaurus Lex and GodZoe that the most important part of the process was quietly reading while the dough rose.
*happy sigh*
It's blissfully quiet at the moment. Won't last, but even five minutes is nice.
Can't wait until we get to punching down the dough - they're going to love that! |
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| Mostly Good News from the House of Garlic, with some negatives |
[May. 8th, 2012|04:59 pm] |
Well, got word back today that Mum has no sign of cancer! W00t! as I believe the ancient Mayans used to say.
Also on the good news front, Sharon doesn't have to have her thyroid out. At least, not at this point in time. She managed to get a good surgeon who wanted to double and triple check things before going ahead with a major operation. Yay!
At this point they're pretty sure she has Hashimoto's disease, which is a nuisance but not terrible. She's been taken off tablets and is currently back to being a tired mess, but they want her off all medication for three months in order to get accurate measurement from tests.
On the less happy news front, she's almost certainly not going to be at Continuum. She's just feeling too tired. We're now discussing whether I go down for the awards and drive back the next day, or I take a little longer and see more of the con. I'm happy either way. One I get more time at the con, the other I get more time with Sharon, and I love bonus Sharon time.
On to more day-to-day stuff. ( Read more... ) |
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| Twitter Mini Stories 07 |
[Apr. 24th, 2012|11:50 am] |
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With recent events overwhelming me, I though I hadn't actually written more than a couple of these since late February. In fact, I have over 40. So here are the first 18. Complete with experiments with haikus. I'm fascinated by haikus, but fear them also, because I'm crap with breaking up things into syllables. ( Read more... ) |
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| Off to Melbourne yet again... |
[Apr. 11th, 2012|05:11 pm] |
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Leaving later than I'd like, of course. And in the latest news, my favourite aunt has been in hospital with fluid on her lungs (but she's out now and ok), and mum is being tested for cancer.
So, March, I apologise for the abuse. The problem obviously wasn't you, it's this whole sodding year, at least so far. |
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| Things we all should learn or remember to do... Pt. 2 |
[Apr. 11th, 2012|12:53 am] |
I've had a number of people tell me in the last few days they were looking forward to part 2, as they enjoyed what I had to say in part 1.. I've had it written all that time, just haven't found a gap big enough for me to look it over to do a quick final edit.
But as I'm off to Melbourne again tomorrow for a funeral, I figured I'd chuck it up tonight.
So here we go, some more things we should all learn to do better, with too much info for some folks, because i always try to lead by example... ( Read more... ) |
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| Was that a snap? |
[Apr. 7th, 2012|08:38 pm] |
Well, I'm feeling pretty fucking broken right now. Heard today that my aunty died, so that's three deaths in a smidge over a month. Not really strong enough for that at the moment. I can tell how far gone I am - I was slightly late for my one panel!
No seriously, I hate being late, so the fact I was tells me how far gone I am. And though I tried to prepare enough to offset my physically and emotionally exhausted state (I had notes! Dot points, even!) I was all over the place in my explanations and over-long. Oh well, will do a proper write up on the Colin Baker Doctor for dalekboy.com.
Had the sense to post to twitter warning people that I'm not to be trusted, that in fact no matter how good I appear to be, I am in fact completely broken right now. If I'm around other people I will automatically switch on. If I'm switched on, I'll be busily fooling both those around me and myself that I'm not great, but coping.
And I'm so not coping right now. Not close. Talking and laughing with a mate downstairs earlier and I could feel the hysterical edge to my laughter.
Thank you to everyone who has sent condolences. Not going to get around to replying to you probably at all, but I really do appreciate it, truly and deeply.
I've also been sent ASCII nipples, and been directed to some almost nudes of a fabulous friend. these things made me smile. I like smiles, they seems few and far between at the moment.
Love the masquerade, but probably won't go to it tonight. Shame, was looking forward to taking lots of exciting pictures to send to TLex.
Oh well, suppose I'll be heading to Melbourne for the funeral after I get back.
I so need a two month solo Nullabor trip right now. |
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| The yearly post-stroke review - Year Six! |
[Apr. 1st, 2012|03:59 pm] |
So, six years ago today, the migraine that gave me my faux mini-stroke started. What an amazing April Fool's Day joke! I had just been about to start a new job and everything. Over the course of nearly a year a, frankly useless, neurologist totally failed to listen to me when I told him that I thought my issues with balance, reading, writing, and a whole bunch of other stuff were related to the two-week migraine.
Over time, the issues got worse, and I went physically downhill to the point where I could barely walk.
So, where am I at these days? ( Read more... ) |
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| Swancon, the March of Suck, and hopefully a good wank. |
[Mar. 30th, 2012|12:17 am] |
So, most of you know, this year so far has been a bit yuck. March in particular has sucked, and the most recent trip down to Melbourne is the worst travel experience I have had.
And I've had a couple of real beauties!
Short version of Melbourne trip ( Read more... )Believe it or not, that is the short version. I've missed out lots of stuff, most of it bad, but with a couple of nice bits. I think my fav was TLex dancing to buskers in the city, and GodZoe having her first taste of Peppermint Ice Cream.
Anyway, should be at Swancon. Because life has been atrocious and busy and generally blah, am only on one panel, the Classic Doctor Who Panel on season 22. Been happily digging up lots of stuff on what was happening around that time - hoping to get a few people to realise that poor ol' Colin would have been a great Doctor, if only he'd been allowed to be.
On the plus side, the lack of panels will leave me free to do what I found to be the highlight for me last con - grab people, drag them back to my room and have some really good one-on-one chats with them. Also, if anyone decides that they think I would be good as a last minute addition to a panel, I'm going to be reasonably free.
I owe Brendan an apology too. He asked for ideas on how to run a Survivor Apocalypse style show - It was a hard one to figure, but eventually sleeping on it over a week or two gave me several ideas of how to make it run. Unfortunately I never managed to get back to him with either the ideas or potentials runners. I was going to have to run it actually, which was a shame because I would have liked to have been in it, but I couldn't think of anyone to run it. It's a tough gig, and I wouldn't want to dump someone in the deep end just so I can have the fun of playing. And it would have needed a repeat of last year's Whose Line style panel a day or two before to give new folks a chance to try their hands at improv, so we could then use some of them for Apocalypse.
See? I got the basics figured on getting people for it, and the rough set-up is in my head, I just never communicated any of it. Which is about as useful as a chocolate coffee pot.
So, sorry I let you down, Brendan, and sorry all those who would liked to have seen it.
Anyway, that's where things are at. I'm stuffed, and Sharon will be at work tomorrow for a long day, so it'll be me and the kids and mum again - although we'll be home, which is nice. And TLex has a birthday party to attend on Saturday, so I'm looking forward to that.
Next bit is TMI. ( Read more... ) |
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