paul_kruzycki (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} paul_kruzycki) wrote,@ 2008-02-18 10:40:00 |
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Man Flu
For the last 4 or 5 days I've been close to deaths door with a strain of plague manifesting as the deadly "man flu". I know what you're all thinking, but this was serious - I even missed the guilds warcraft raid on Sunday night I was that sick.
Thanks to the careful nursing of the better half (administration of chocolate, drugs and Mocha's stat), I pulled back from the precipice and am now feeling somewhat less likely to shuffle off this mortal coil. It was touch and go, and I will wheeze at anyone who claims I'm just being silly.
The weekend, understandably, was a bit of a wipe out - and seeing all those on my friends list who did so much at the weekend makes its loss to illness more difficult to swallow. Damn you all - you know where you can put your gardening, cooking, sock making and house decluttering and I'll thank you to keep you DIY exploits to yourselves in future when I'm dying. Sorry, it's the lemsip cold and flu talking..... :-)
As a countermeasure to all this productivity, I shall have at you with a brief catch up of 2008 so far from the den of the Kruzycki. It all begins on 24-12-07 for, on that aspicious day we signed our lease on 1800sqft of warehouse about 5 minutes from the house. It means my daily communte has gone from 20 seconds (up the stairs to the office in the loft) to 5 minutes. The 1800sq ft stood empty until 2 weeeks ago when all the remaining Discworld stock (feegles, beer, glasses, t-shirts etc.) was moved from the storage unit at Gallows Corner into the new space.
This is due, in no small part to the efforts of my newly appointed assistant, who we shall call MG here who joined us on Jan 7th and started the process of packing up the goods and helpping keep me organised.
Having effectively mothballed the Discworld business in early 2007 (more on that elsewhere) it was nice to start generating an income via ebay and selling some of the small mountain of product prior to and after the move. MG did a stirling job.
The plan is to work from the warehouse for the next few weeks whilst offices are built and the centre of operations is moved from the house to the new unit. During this time, the DW business will be reestablished (web page, mailing list etc). I want to clear the remaining Discworld stock ASAP - it will be nice to finally draw a line under that part of my life. Once the office at home is cleared of desks, filing and clutter (see, even I can declutter) it will be turned into a guest bedroom / play room for Millie - somewhere she can keep all her toys, play safely and eventually use for homework and the like.
Millie continues to delight. We have had some harder nights recently - she has been unwell and teething and on a few occasions has needed to come in with her mum or me where she proceeds to a) take up most of the bed by shifting around to a diagonal position, b) roll on top of the parents head c) scare me witless by not being where she started out when I wake from a snatched burst of sleep but actually being in a different part of the bed.
She's now into feeding the cat - or at least helping to feed him by taking his bowl and putting it on a chair, getting the food out and then patting the food packet to get the last out when daddy opens it before carrying the bowl over and putting it down for hobbs and clearing up by putting the packet in the recycling bin. It's not potty training, or astrophysics, but she is my girl :-). We have a spanish BBC "Muzzy" course that she likes to watch and, if the advertising is to be believed, this should seep into her mind and help with the early development. You do what you can I guess.
More soon.
For the last 4 or 5 days I've been close to deaths door with a strain of plague manifesting as the deadly "man flu". I know what you're all thinking, but this was serious - I even missed the guilds warcraft raid on Sunday night I was that sick.
Thanks to the careful nursing of the better half (administration of chocolate, drugs and Mocha's stat), I pulled back from the precipice and am now feeling somewhat less likely to shuffle off this mortal coil. It was touch and go, and I will wheeze at anyone who claims I'm just being silly.
The weekend, understandably, was a bit of a wipe out - and seeing all those on my friends list who did so much at the weekend makes its loss to illness more difficult to swallow. Damn you all - you know where you can put your gardening, cooking, sock making and house decluttering and I'll thank you to keep you DIY exploits to yourselves in future when I'm dying. Sorry, it's the lemsip cold and flu talking..... :-)
As a countermeasure to all this productivity, I shall have at you with a brief catch up of 2008 so far from the den of the Kruzycki. It all begins on 24-12-07 for, on that aspicious day we signed our lease on 1800sqft of warehouse about 5 minutes from the house. It means my daily communte has gone from 20 seconds (up the stairs to the office in the loft) to 5 minutes. The 1800sq ft stood empty until 2 weeeks ago when all the remaining Discworld stock (feegles, beer, glasses, t-shirts etc.) was moved from the storage unit at Gallows Corner into the new space.
This is due, in no small part to the efforts of my newly appointed assistant, who we shall call MG here who joined us on Jan 7th and started the process of packing up the goods and helpping keep me organised.
Having effectively mothballed the Discworld business in early 2007 (more on that elsewhere) it was nice to start generating an income via ebay and selling some of the small mountain of product prior to and after the move. MG did a stirling job.
The plan is to work from the warehouse for the next few weeks whilst offices are built and the centre of operations is moved from the house to the new unit. During this time, the DW business will be reestablished (web page, mailing list etc). I want to clear the remaining Discworld stock ASAP - it will be nice to finally draw a line under that part of my life. Once the office at home is cleared of desks, filing and clutter (see, even I can declutter) it will be turned into a guest bedroom / play room for Millie - somewhere she can keep all her toys, play safely and eventually use for homework and the like.
Millie continues to delight. We have had some harder nights recently - she has been unwell and teething and on a few occasions has needed to come in with her mum or me where she proceeds to a) take up most of the bed by shifting around to a diagonal position, b) roll on top of the parents head c) scare me witless by not being where she started out when I wake from a snatched burst of sleep but actually being in a different part of the bed.
She's now into feeding the cat - or at least helping to feed him by taking his bowl and putting it on a chair, getting the food out and then patting the food packet to get the last out when daddy opens it before carrying the bowl over and putting it down for hobbs and clearing up by putting the packet in the recycling bin. It's not potty training, or astrophysics, but she is my girl :-). We have a spanish BBC "Muzzy" course that she likes to watch and, if the advertising is to be believed, this should seep into her mind and help with the early development. You do what you can I guess.
More soon.
