h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

earlier.

had a gorgeous, warm, OK. boiling hot... relaly felt like I was about to pass out as I sunk into it hot... MMMM... bath.... with .. oddly aenough a gorgeous bath bomb.... think that was a fizz banger.... fizzed a lot... or ... a differnt one I forge the naem of... had litke what felt like bits of seaweed in it... gorgeous... though

used a whole carguines err, sp.... carguines car..... whatever, coluldren, couldren bath melt too mmmm... frankenscence... sandle wood oats skin so soft gorgeous smooth legs still

wasn't goign to wash my hair, as I did it last night... and it was malting something chronic then... but ... as I was in the bath.. and it got wet... din't seem any point not too... used up last of the coconut conditioner; how the heck am I using so much shampoo/conditioner... it doesn' make sense... Ive' so little hair left compared to what I normally have mind, darn site quicker to rinse now, which is nice even if it feels kinda weird, being so thin and .... jst not much of it

yeh... so anyhow. bathed... for like... err, oops, an hour ro so... OK. nearly an hourand a half... I got istracted

hmm,, actually had to have a quick rinse down under shower after that bath today... just ... too much 'stuff' left on me just a quick rinse mind, didn' twant to remove all the gorgeous softness and moisturising ness of the couldren melt

anyhow...

having spent all day physically doing stuff; carting junk downstairs, and then jumping about standing on wobbly sets of drawers, dusting high up yeh... me... safety... sensible... nah... dont' think so - didn't actually injury myself at all!; well, not if you ignore the several dozen times I crakced me nut on the low doorway into the walk in loft - mind, of course... the bruiseing won't come up from that for a few ays, tahnks to dodgy immune system

anyhow...

cool bit, sort of was; after I'd washed, and bathed, and then after I'd dried my hair, (yeh, sitting down to do it... so not me... but... oddly... nice... way to do it, actually... in ... an odd way. . ), anyhow, having done that, drying my hair, listening to leadbelly, and then some goth dubstep stuff... I ... was on the phone to William a while - telling him how I'd possibly fixed some of the stuff to do with the spare room... and ... because I'd never dream of doing so without his permission... ouslining my idea of a new bed, and matress, and stuff... which we might have a looky at tomorrow and talked some more about sunglasses.... and velvet trousers... and tomorrows pilgramage to Lush and, stuff...

anyhow...

I thought I'd wear the pendant, again, for a while, as it was quite late, and I'd had to not wear the collar earlier, as I was lugging all the stuff up and down, it was just too uncomfy..

oh nos! knot in the relaly really really fine, delicate silver chain....

a total... knotty knot...

and impossible knot.

which I unknotted. using a sewing needle in my right hand, and my fingersnails on my left hand

how. the did I do that? - I'm not sure I could hae done that before* I got neuropathy.... - sensations still odd, on tips of fingers, but, dexterity, is if anything better than it was... or at least I recall it was.; I'm getting more ambideterous.... which is kinda odd... - heck even the fact I can fasten the clasp, on this tiny clasp, I'm supprised by; I couldn't when I first recieved it in the post

err. got hungry... so had a couple of hte left over sausages I cooked earlier, in a couple sandwichs, for late supper... at about 1 AM I really don't get sleep... I should be like so tired, its only two days since chemo... everyone else I know who's had lymphoma (I'm on a forum on the net, loads of people we're talking to regualrly, at differnt sateges of treament, some rads, some still chemo etc), anyhow... they all seem to sleep hugely so... ong... long sleeps.. and naps... cept me. I onsider anything over thre ehours now, a long sleep


hmm. well, coudln't go to bed too quickly after a supper like taht and... at least I'll be closer to 3 AM than 4 going up tonight. - must go rescue the final cup of tea, brewing (peppermint again)

err... William over tomorrow and.... if my energy is still like it was today...

put a new hook up on side of wardrove earlier too... teh torse is now more easil in r reach... which... might be useful... if anyone needed such a ting urgenty.... yeh... impact play whilst all messed up white/platelets etc... what could... posbblyl go wrong mind... still can't quite ... persuade W I'm ... 'fit' enough for the ... leather braided cane damint... but... maybe that's for the best ouch...

err... I really oughta go to bed soon... think I might actually be... sort of tired... busy days shopping tomorrow; few fresh things, food wise.... salad mainly, I think to get... plus need yet more disposible cloths, and another bottle of the spray for the kitchen... still tons of surgical gloves left, which is good... that box of 200 has lasted quite well so far... need more tissues, for putting in/doing the drops... the new 2% ones, are... awkward though... a lot more visocus so mixing them aobut with the 1% ones, to ensure the eyes sta nie and wet then gotta find the sunglases tomorrow... they've got to be... 'me' maan... innit but... sensible enough the do the job and... stuff...

I think I am tired. gona go drink tea, then sleep.... I hope all drugs taken for the day.... last eye drops in... sorted... sausages eggs and bacon in fridge.... - no idea what I ould possibly do for breakfast time for bed... after the tea... I think I'm staring to haluinate about monkeys on motorbikes.... arrying PG tips... I don't even drink PG tips I blame.... myelf ... err.. myself.... hmm. my typing hasn't gotten muh etter in some ways still getting used to new keyoard, mind... err... must go dirnk peppermint tea, then go bedies....

Untying knots is so satisfying, especially in jewelry. It's very

Last weekend I was at a rally, basically camping, and friends arrived late and while setting up camp one of them, a master electrician, pulled out the largest tangle I've ever seen. He was about to cut a section out of the middle because he couldn't find an end. I offered to take over while he set up his camp. I'd never seen this material before. He said it was "mule tape". It's a flat, oily rope used to pull wires through pipes or tunnels. And he a had a whole lot of it all tangled up. I spent about an hour untangling it constantly amazed that I didn't hit any "hatchet knots", knots that can only be resolved with a blade. Seriously... I've dealt with poorly coiled sail ropes (sheets) but this was oddly more tangled yet more wielding. It just kept coming untangled with a bit of shaking, wiggling, and... coercion.

I started from one end and laid the rest on top of the pile so it wouldn't retangle. When I finished, I told my friend his mule tape was untangled. He rewarded me me by saying, "keep it!".


So.... what should I do with approximately 200 - 300 meters of mule tape?

I found a pic. This tangle is only a bit larger, but much less tangled than what I worked through. This is what mule tape looks like.

http://www.hammockforums.net/gallery/files/4/4/4/9/mule_tape_original.jpg

We used to call that engineer's tape in the army and used it to mark off safety areas.

I'm getting even more that I used to be... some little upset, like that... would once... have... I'd have lost concentrate..... got angry... annoyed, etc, so quickly.. but I just kept (maybe that's a respoonse to having the hydrocortisone, replacing my very low level 'natent' cortisole production, actually, thinking about it.... how odd... this sciency stuff like.... makes some kinda sense...)

especially satisfying to do it too, as the jewlery was a gift and... that bit was the bit getting me near to losing my as I occasionally thought 'this is an impossible task'.

I dunno.
I just did one impossible task, that at.... many points had, in some 'aspect of thinking' in my mind, reached, or gone over, the point of.... too muc, an't do no more... enough is enough... and then... wasn't/didn't so I just sat, calm like on the edge of the bed... and thought about the knot.... then examined it... then tried with fingers, alone (I'e had fingernails recently, which is a novilty for me) then figured, a pin might help; actually where I was sitting, I only had to bend down, to the side, reach inside the wardrobe, to just grab my sewing box. - I'm that bluddy domestic! - actually I should say, my main sewing, sewing box; not the one contining beads, and certainly not my leatherwork big tool box, which also has sewing stuff, for leather, of course, in it (actually, one of the bigger leathework needles, would probably have been easier, but the leatherwork box is.... lurking in teh spare room still I thnk)

ten I got it unknotted, so fast

and, after yet again, reminding myself which way round to do it, threw it on backwards, and did the clasp, quite quickly (it is so fine and fiddling to do) and then of course, spun it round to be the correct way and so I've got the jade pendant at the front its... so me but... now... today... should I wear the jade pendant, to go shopping in town, or the purple leather daycollar... choses choices... wearing both... is sort of possible.. but... really very silly an idea as the jade pendant would remain invisble under the purple leahter collar, its like about 2 inch high on the neck, the collar, maybe only 1.5 inch, not sure... but... its not exaclty err... unnoticle/small but... its... so me goes well with the 21 foot of multicoloured, partially bow-tied ribbons, in my hair honst... it does... Hmm... maybe its time to reaquaint myself with the satin corset hmm. perhaps not

breakfast tried to get fighty with m y tummy.... - two sausagews, two rashers thick cut back bacon, and a duck egg and a hen egg.... and lots of toast and butter... - I won, stomach gave up the fight at nausea My body is getting worringly obedient