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Showing posts with label pvfs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pvfs. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

26/12/07 Boxing Day v2



There is currently an advert on the TV and on some websites to (crappy little flash animation thing) that features a house at Christmas. It is snowing and the house has Xmas lights outside and on the garden fence. The lights on the fence are lotto numbers. They are 3, 7, 15, 18, 41 and 43. I did intend to check whether these numbers have already won a large prize previously. Anyway, I didn't get time to check before I was in front of a Lotto terminal, so I placed them on tonight's draw anyway.
Best of British, huh.

I should make some phone calls.
Christmas.
Family.
Friends.
Etc.

So, today Ikea is open.
I know.
I checked.
95p breakfasts here we come.
Got an extra sausage.
I don't call that going large.
They do.

Just as we were setting off from home, I was in the driving seat and Wifey was just getting in the car and she said something that struck a chord with me as being interesting. Interesting enough to make me think that if I twisted it a bit it'd fit well in the novel. I thought to myself 'That's good. I won't forget that. I don't need to stop the car and write that down or make an audio note on my mobile, I'll remember, of course I will, I'll remember, I'll jot it down as I stop the car in Ikea's car park.

I forgot it.

I must remember (irony?) to write things down immediately the idea strikes me.
Otherwise, more often than not.
It is gone.
I've mentioned this before.
It is very annoying and makes me angry because it is avoidable and it is a constant reminder of what my illness/condition/whatever has done to me.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Choose and Book

Hmmm, I'm not usually a fan of systems where people have been replaced by machines, automated phone systems, computer booking systems, call centres in Bangalore or the horrendous scan & bag your own stuff tills in many major supermarkets. (what on earth is the TGWU playing at?)

Anyway, I've been referred back to the neurologist who made my initial diagnosis of PVFS. This has been prompted by 7 months of B12 injections that have done precisely nothing. So, I think I'm due an upgrade now to something more horrendous.

This said, the NHS 'Choose and Book' system I used today was:
  • quicker than phoning up
  • cheaper than phoning up
  • easy to use
  • straightforward and intuitive
Blimey, what next?

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