Thursday 6 January 2011

Laid Up With A Bad Back - Reflecting On Stuff

Today after waking up with a bad back I went into work hoping it would ease off like yesterday. However... it didn't. To cut a long story short my back went into spasm and it became so bad I couldn't sit at my desk. I ended up lying on the office floor for over half an hour and one of my colleagues ended up giving me a lift home (I was in too much pain to drive).
Installed on the sofa with a fistfull of pain-killers and muscle relaxants inside me I can now at least sit up, so it seemed a good opportunity to do a blog posting and reflect on the last couple of weeks.
They say things come in threes; first I'm struck down for almost a week with a bad dose of man-flu, followed by last night with me having an accident with my son which end up with his head hitting my mouth and giving me a badly split lip. Now the back goes..... Hopefully this is the end of this run of bad luck....
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Managed to get a game of Space Hulk in just after X-Mas. For the first time ever I used the solo play rules which I have to say worked really well. Continuing on the Space Hulk theme, after reading several good reviews I've gone and ordered myself a copy of the Space Hulk - Death Angel card game which should hopefully turn up in the next day or so.
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Since I posted on 22 Dec I've continued reading the Gaunt's Ghosts omnibus books. I've now finished 'The Founding' and 'The Saint', and laid up this afternoon I've now started on 'The Lost'. What a great series. As a frustrated sci-fi writer myself I can only read in awe at the scale of the stories and landscape that they are set in (deep sigh). My favourite character so far has to be Master Sniper 'Mad' Hlaine Larkin :)
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For the Company of Heroes players out there the big news is of course that the Version 3 of the Blitz mod was made available for download on the 24th Dec. Several new vehicles are included, my favourite being the German Sturmpanzer IV 'Brummbar'. Expensive to buy, and you can only have one, so it does poses some downsides to the alternative which is up to three Grilles. For offensive actions though it is as tough as nails and that 150mm Howitzer round does a huge amount of damage.
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6 comments:

BigLee said...

Sorry to hear you've been ill, it seems to be the theme of Christmas this year. Pretty much everyone I know (family and colleges) have been struck down with colds or flu or stomach bug this holiday.

Mark said...

it's the Constellations. Apparently everything is shite at the moment in the heavens so it effeccts us too.

Hope that;s the end to your woes and your back is better soon.

Cheers
Mark

Vulture said...

Lee
This has been worst X-Mas / New Year I can remember for people getting ill. The sooner spring comes the better...

Vulture said...

Mark
Certainly a lot of things in life do feel shite at the moment. I'm in my last month at work in its current location. Wef from 9th Feb for 3 days and 2 nights(for the foreseeable future) I'm going to be away from home each week. 2011 is not shaping up to be a good year thus far (sigh).

Mark said...

Me too. My lungs are fried with the exceptionally cold air and I'll admit that however irrationally, there's been days i've wondered if i'll make it to the Spring if the cold weather doesn't let up.

Cheers
Mark

Mark said...

Ouch! We were told on 20th December that our team was at the heart of transforming the organisation over the next five years - Hooray! Then told on 24th December, sorry, you will be outsourced if not offshored before end on 2011.....

A year of challenge

Mark