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After what seems like more time that it actually was, I finally went back to work on Monday morning and was greeted unexpectently.  I had people from different offices coming in to welcome me back to my desk which was a nice feeling really.  Its nice to be missed.  Even though i’m only going to be back for 8 weeks before I have to go back into hospital.  Yes, they have pushed back my operation until the end of November now.  Great i’m going to be laid up over Christmas - arn’t I the lucky one..

I’ve also started to refind my love of programming over the past few weeks when I downloaded Adobe Flex builder 3.  This is a programming language for Flash and my geeky side likes it more than the artistic way you do things in Flash CS3.  So i’ve been reading every book i can get my hands on and I have really enjoyed myself for the first time in months working on a computer.

Myself and my girlfriend went to the townhall on Sunday to look at what they can do in the way of weddings as we have decided its about time that we actually got married rather than just assuming that it would happen on its own.  September 2009 is the general timespan for it to happen although we havent narrowed it down to a date yet.

Apart from that its been quite a normal few weeks; my nephew has started school and he appears to like it, my sister has started back in her second year of midwife course and my brother still hasn’t got a new job yet.

So on Tuesday I got a phone call from my consultant to tell me that although yesterday she was happy with the results of my blood test, this morning she decided that I was still pretty ill.  This is news to me as I’m starting to feel pretty good again.  So now I’m back in hospital awaiting more tests and a few tubes stuck into my body for god knows how long.
I don’t mind been in hospital when I feel ill as I can see that its going to make me better, but when I feel like I am now then I get pretty pissed off.  If I haven’t mentioned this before, I have the worlds biggest needle phobia.  I mean big time phobia.  Last month when I was sent to hospital I had to go to A&E first and they put a canula into me (This is like a needle which stays in your arm so that they can put stuff in it without having to put an injection in every time).  I almost passed out.  The room was spinning after he stabbed me with the thing and I had to lay down as I was pretty sure the consciousness was about to leave me behind.
So as you can see I’m not thrilled about coming in here again.  What makes it even more horrifying to me is that when I saw the doctor this evening he obviously hadn’t read my notes because he wanted to do something to me that was physically impossible and he would have known that if he had spend 30 seconds and read my file.
Looking forward to tomorrow.

On 11th July, Apple released the iPhone 3G.  At the time I looked at it with envy because I was stuck with the original iphone which I bought on release day by standing in a queue for 2 hours in London.  I thought that I was not going to be able to have the new one because I was tied into the contract, but then 02 did a nice thing.  Let iphone users upgrade early to the 3G.  I was going to do that, but over the next few days I decided against it.  I didn’t need it, I had a nice one already but I have to report that my willpower deserted me and yesterday I came home with my shiny black 16gb iPhone 3G.

So is it worth it?  Well I think so.  The download speeds from the internet are a lot quicker which is something that means alot to me as I use the internet and email on my iphone quite a lot.  But as with all weak men, I ended up buying the accessories  - namely new headphones (shure SE210) and a new dock because of the new shape.

On another bright note, I go back to the hospital on Monday and hopefully get the all clear to go back to work.  Don’t get me wrong having time off sick is a nice thing, but after a few weeks you’ve done everything in the house you want and I now just want to get back to normality and go to work.  You see, I don’t go and treat it like a holiday. I guess this is because when I was younger my mum used to say to me

If you are too ill to go to school then you must be too ill to play out.

That stopped me from skipping school because there wasnt any point if I was to be confined to my bedroom while I was ‘ill’

I’m getting married next year after being engadged for a few years now so Mrs-to-be has started looking around again at places to have parties etc.  I’m looking forward to it also so marrage type things which I’ve seen have sometimes perked my interest lately.  Well I found this on the internet and thought it would be cool to put up here.

Couples First Dance.

Finally today a note on what I write on here.  They are my own thoughts at a particular time.  For example the post about my best mate.  I make no appologies for defending him in anything he does,  I’ve grown up with him and friendship can be blind to what rights and wrongs are.  The comments I made about his ex are my opinions and no-one elses.  I have a right to express what I think on my own blog.  If she was upset by my comments, its a bit tough but at the time that is what I had to say on the matter.  Througout life people come and go through you circle and your lucky if you have a long term friend, especially guys and being loyal is a trait which I think you need in a friend however misplaced that loyalty is.

Hi again.  So sorry for not posting for ages, I kind of went through a little slump of feeling sorry for myself and the last thing I wanted to do was write on here.  So what has being 33 years old done for me upto now?

Well first thing is that I’ve been ill pretty much all the time since April and i’m just getting over it now (which might be a reason my mood is picking up  lot) .  Oh yeah, in May I went to London for the week with my partner on the pretence of an urban holiday, although I was at the @media2008 conference for two of those days.  I’ll tell you all about that next time - I don’t want to go and create a long post that no-one is going to read when I can tease you all!!!

Work was also pretty crap.  I was being left out of important meeting which I felt I needed to be involved in because at some point in the future I would be doing the work and there were issues which needed addressing at the time.  But this has changed dramatically in the last week.  I’ve have two managers at the moment; a real line manager who looks after the holidays and I have to share the office with her and the team, and then there is the firms webmaster who is my ‘workload’ manager (my other one doesn’t know what I do most of the time and isn’t technical enough to understand it).  So last Monday I was asked to take on a project that another member of the team wanted to offload as she was on her holidays.  Basically I was asked to turn a few pdf documents into a full blown ebook in a week.  I did pretty well and if I do say so myself I did a pretty good job of it.  Anyway we had the meeting with the guy who is funding this bit of work and he was very pleased, but we (meaning I)  have decided to go further and produce an all singing-all-dancing version in the next month.  I was asked if I could do it which I said I could but didn’t know how yet.  My boss then said

We don’t have a don’t know how to do it.  Its a challenge

which is certainly is, but this is the thing I love doing, so work is picking up and I’m enjoying it again.

My partner is a star, still love her to bits even though for the last week all she has been doing is playing Indiana Jones Lego on my Xbox360.  But I’d rather have her in there playing than not have her atall like my best friend.

Last Monday I got a text message from him to say that his girfriend had broken up with him.  Now, I was pretty pleased about that !?!?!?!  Not because I like to see my friend in pieces and upset, but because she was leading him on and being unfair to him.  This was made more apparent to me when I was told that she didn’t even have the guts to break up with him on the phone or face-to-face.  She txt him!!!!  There is only one word that I can think of to sum her up

BITCH!

He’s cut to pieces but I’m sure he’ll get over her.  He’s got good friends and its like the Carling Advert when all his mates turn up on their horses to get him out of the house.

This post is far too long so I’ll stop now.  Catch you later

Well, its 4pm and I have escaped from work for 2 whole weeks.  No need to go into the office and I’m going to try not to check my email (which will be hard) until May 6th.  So what have I got planned?

Firstly, tomorrow sees the start of The World Snooker Championships.  I love snooker and will be sat infront of the TV watching that for most of the time.  Apart from that, its my birthday on tuesday so Mrs to be Wheelz is taking me out for dinner somewhere, not sure yet.  Other than that, i’m just chillin’

If I think of anything else to do, rest assured you’ll all be some of the first to know.

gosh, I’ve just been looking through my site and the last time I posted was the beginning of March. My only excuse is Twitter!!! its taken over my life, a fact my girlfriend frequently reminds me of.

So what have you missed? Well I had a friend up from Slough over easter which was nice. much talking of nothing happened and it was a refreshing change to just babble about anything. Then I becme i’ll.

I’m not sure what it wrong with me, I’ve been to the doctors and he’s given me some antibiotics and I’ve also been at the hospital and are taking regular blood tests. My main symptom seems to be exhaustion. Now, i’ve suffered with tiredness for a few years as I have other health problems but over the past couple of days I put panda’s to shame with the size of my black eyes. So my plan for this weekend? Well Sleep, Sleep and more sleep. ( with a break to watch Dr. Who of course)

My brother is taking his photography hobby very seriously at the moment. He’s took some great photos and I hope he sticks at it, but experience tells me that in 6 months or so he’ll be bored of it and his camera will sit in the back of his cupboard gathering dust. Here’s to being proved wrong!!!

I was introduced last week to twitter.  The basic idea of this service is that you have 140 characters to write about what you are doing at that very moment.  I have to confess, its very addictive as not only do you put on what you are doing but  you can also search others and see what people around the globe are doing.  By adding people you follow their days and they can also follow yours so you make a big community of people who can see what is happening in the world at any time.  If anyone wants to follow me on their twitter account, just search for wheelz24

I’ll update more about what i’ve been doing soon I promise.

So, for anyone who didn’t know or didn’t care, today was the day that apple fanboys wait all year round for.  That is the keynote speach from Steve Jobs to show off the best that Apple have to offer at the start of the year.  This is quite a fun time as people online start wondering about the smallest bits of news which is usually completely wrong in the first place but they swear they are correct all the time.

What did this year bring?  Well a few updates really…  Updated iphone/ipod touch, updated apple tv and downloading and renting of films and then a new subnotebook.  Its a very pretty laptop, entitled the macbook air, but I can really see use for it myself.  I’m not going to bother putting up lots of shiny photos and going on about it for pages as you’ll be able to find that on practically every tech site on the net at the moment.

Right whats next??  Well i’m into my second week in the new office with my new team.  I’m still not sure how well we are all settling in together.  I’m enjoying it as its really quite most of the time and on the odd occasion that there are other people in the office, its plesent and I have things to talk about to them.  The more I’m getting to know some of them, the more they are suprising me for different reasons.  But i’m babbling now.  Its 2am and I really should be in bed.

Christmas was very good.  Lots of presents all round, fun family times & a chance to recharge my batteries.  What did I get for xmas you ask?  Well here goes.

• Flash CS3 Bible
• ActionScript 3 Bible
• Terry Pratchett book - Making Money
• Assassin’s Creed (Xbox360)
• Need for Speed:Pro Street (Xbox360)
• Heroes Volume 1
• Transformers Movie
• Bladerunner 5 Disk box set

and then on boxing day I got a SatNav.

So now i’m back at work.  Just before xmas I moved into a portakabin for the next 3 years and I was a little concerned about how it was going to go.  Well some of my concerns wasted away into nothing.  Its the first time in 7 years that i’ve shared an office with more than 3 people and I’m finding it a struggle but i’m sure I’ll get used to it.  I was told that also before xmas I was feeling isolated because I was in a different office to rest of the team. Well i’m now in the same office and I feel exactly the same - more if thats believeable.  I can see some ‘tricky’ problems coming to light in the next few weeks so stay tuned for play by play commentary on the politics of work.

I’m also looking forward to next week when I’m off to buy a new Macbook Pro.