So, I finally got myself a digital camera, and so far, I am VERY happy with it, even if it does take the silly sony memory sticks, and not compact flash. Its a DSC-P72, taking photos at 3.2MP which as far as I am concerned, is more than enough.

So, as promised, here she is, the superstar of the show.... Kleopatra! These photos were originally in 2048x1536 but I have sized them down to 800x600 just for you guys :) Click on the thumbnails to enlarge.

Awww.... aint she cute, but check the next one, attack mode.... arrrrghh
 


See.... not so cute.


Anyways, not too much to say, got tonnes of work to do. See you later

Kamakaze Kleopatra

I know I promised piccies of the new addition to the household, but the ones I took weren't very clear, but hey, I will have my digital camera by next weekend, so I will get some then :) Infact, I will probably be taking plenty.

Back to the title, little Kleopatra has been in the habit of walking along the balcony wall, and jumping (about 2 feet, upwards, remember shes only tiny, about a foot long now without her tail) onto the bedroom window sill. No problems thought I, though I was slightly worried about it. She's a cat, if she was out in the wild she would be climbing trees, confronting cars, attacking dogs etc, so a little walk along the 4th floor balcony wont be a problem... till last night.

Its 5am, and I am awoken by the faint but repetitive cry that can only be Kleo. Thinking she is just messing around in the sitting room, I try my best to get back to sleep, and partially succeed. 5:30am comes around, and I stir once more, the repetitive meowing continues, but it's getting fainter, quieter somehow. Getting worried, I get out of bed, check her usual hiding places, in the bathroom behind the biday, or the toilet, hiding in the bath? Nope, Kitchen, beside the washing machine, or in the cupboard by the fridge, nope nope. Go into the living room, and it gets slightly louder, still, no sign of her anywhere. Then I notice the balcony door is slightly open on one side, and my heart started pounding. Rush onto the balcony, look over the side between the balcony and the window, knowing what she's like and sure enough, on the promenade between the buildings, looking up, there she's sat.

Mad rush, put on some clothes, run down the first floor, into the fire escape well (only way I know of accessing the promenade) and shes cowering in the corner where I saw her. I call her and she runs up, climbs up my leg, i pick her up, she nuzzles into my shoulder and starts purring... 4 floors is quite a way to fall... so now shes down to 8 lives...

The only saving grace for her I suppose, is that because she's still a kitten, her bones would be quite flexible still, which is probably why she hasnt broken anything.

*sigh* back to work :)

Scary experiences

...like a headache that was SO bad it blinded me, I lost control of my legs, my father had to carry me to the car to get me to hospital. Now, I've suffered from migraine all my life, before anyone pops up and says, it was just a migraine, or just a headache, and I have never felt pain like that in my life, EVER! Anyways, after only 20 mins in A&E, the staff nurse took my blood pressure, I would tell you what it was, but my vision looked something like this:



except with more colours, and in jaggy lines across my eyesight. He asked me some questions, how long it had been going on for, if I felt nauseaus, if I had suffered from them before etc, at which point, I kinda blacked out for a second. Next thing I know, I'm being led to a small, darkened area of the A&E room, and asked to drop my pants, one shot of "intramuscular" votarol, 20 mins later and I was in happy land.

Anyways, on a good note, I have had my cholesterol checked, which I was meant to be doing quite a while ago, 2 years ago in fact, when it was first discovered my dad has a hereditary heart condition, but I have put it off and off and off, but hey, its done now, and it read 167. After a little bit of research, this basically means Im doing very well.

http://www.americanheart.org says the following about cholesterol levels

Desirable — Less than 200 mg/dL
Borderline high risk — 200-239 mg/dL
High risk — 240 mg/dL and over

So hopefully I wont be getting a clogged artery, which looks something like this:



YUM!

Right, enough of the medical postings, I'm off to do some work.
Bye for now

Politics continued...

But just for a laugh, ever wonder why Bush suddenly declared war on Iraq? Was it oil? Was it the war against terrorism? Was it because he really didnt like the way Saddam had evaded his father? (How star wars esque) No, no and no....