Closing off...

This will be the last posting here. All further postings will be at http://www.lympago.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=robburble .
See you all there!

Lympago on-line

After many delays, and a number of silly problems, the http://www.lympago.com site is up at last.
Mostly replicating our old homepages at WestNet, it also includes a set of discussion and news boards, and there will be more to come over the next few weeks.
Enjoy!

Ahoy there! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day!

And if ye be steering a course for that fine plunderer Leece the Blade's home port ye'll see the log for the day's adventures!
Now I must be off to deal with the navy blaggards that be bombarding me skull...from the inside...

On-Call

I've now been on back-up, or on-call for two weeks. This is the usual stint, and it is always the last 10 hours or so that get to be a real drag. Sigh.
More importantly, our friend Steveg, who was in a severe car accident just over a week ago, is now out of ICU.
I've also just spent some long overdue time updating Leece's page, which now looks a lot better.
Meantime, I'm looking forward to doing some riding tomorrow. Maybe some caching, but more likely sniffing around the old dredge at Herdsman's Lake, and getting some decent photos of what is going on there.

Edited by author 25-08-2004 07:51
So I was half right (right song, wrong episode)!

"This is a chemist's, not a joke shop."

Edited by author 24-08-2004 19:06
And to re-enforce the depth of my sad-fanness, I can tell you that the pub song was House of Fun, and that Our House was the 'in the street' song in Sick.
Without checking.
To quote:
N:Has Mike gone to get the cure?
V:No, Neil, its Madness this week!

They did "Our House" and also "House of Fun".

Yes, I should have know. I blame the fact that all Madness songs sound more or less the same.

Didn't they appear in two episodes? Once in the pub in Boring and on the footpath in..er..another one? Or am I getting confused with the video clips?

Tsk, tsk, Posskins!
I am ashamed of you. You of all people should have remembered it was Our House in that episode!

Your pennance...hmmm...Ah-ha! You shall be forced to watch season two!
Bwhahahahahhahah[cough][cough][wheeze][choke][cough]
(weakly)...later...

Edited by author 23-08-2004 07:49
"Good morning, miss."
"Can I help you son?"
"Sixteen today and up for fun. I'm a big boy now or so they so if you'll serve I'll be on my way."

Sick

The flu. Day 4. After two and a half days of fever, dry coughing and no energy at all, I appear to be starting on the way to being on the mend. Maybe. The fever seems to be gone, and the dry cough is getting less frequent - as long as I don't talk. We'll see how I am tomorrow before deciding if I actually am on the mend.
There is a new drug around, according to my GP, which will pretty much hit this flu on the head. But only if you start taking it in the first 24 hours. This I find out at around the 60 hour mark - so see your quack nice and early on this one.
For me, it's too late, and so it's the old story of forcing yourself to eat food you can't taste, and drinking huge amounts of juice, fruit tea and water, taking vitamin C, and various herbals to try and bolster the immune system. And a combination of anti-pyretics, decongestants, analgesics and cough suppressants to keep the symptoms down. And sleep. Lots of sleep.
Interestingly, today is the first day that I can think clearly since day one. Days two and three are sort of a vague blur. I know I sat in the lounge room, and alternated between watching Discovery/History/TechTV/Cartoon Network and sleeping. But what actually happened? I'd br hard pressed to tell you.

On an almost unrelated note, has anyone else ever noticed that people blogs read like a list of episodes of The Young Ones or Blackadder? Visit almost any blog, and read the entry titles. See? So, by rights, I should be having a ska band rock up outside any minute now...

Geez, not fair, Rob & Poss get the action flicks, and I get Schindler's List. And Mother Theresa. I don't think I'm that selfless really.

And I am Apocalypse Now - a rougue whatsist wandering on the river of life searching for my shadow thingie.

Well there you go.

More silly test whatsits....
According to What Famous Leader Are You? I am JFK ... which I find somewhat disturbing. OTOH, What Classic Movie Are You? says that I am Raiders of the Lost Ark. Which I think is pretty cool, all things considered :-)

Basically, he says, basically kicked me out of Asia.
More like resoundingly, if you ask me. I was there, I know.
It was very impressive.

Edited by author 14-08-2004 09:50

Gaming

Last night we had a very depleted set of gamers. Just the three of us, in fact. Steveg, Leece and myself.
So we decided to give three player Attack! a go. What fun. Steveg played the communists, Leece the monarchists, an myself the fascists.
Despite having most of my (largely irreplaceable) oil burnt by Leece's sabetures, and having a very limited ability to actually do stuff, I managed to accumulate a large stockpile of production while Steveg and Leece brought the game to the brink of ending. And then stopped, because neither was certain of a clear win. I then took this opportunity to spend all put accumulated production, and attack Leece - and basically kicked her out of Asia!
I thought I'd managed to force a new balance with Steveg, but I'd miscounted, and he then won by 7 points, thanks to his neutral friends.
A very quick and nasty game with three players. Four would have been a little better, IMHO.
Now we're off to give the MityBoy a heart transplant!