DVT 50 (4th without injection)
So it’s up and get ready for the GP stabbing fest. Of course I take a shower and wear real trousers and a posh T shirt. It’s a bizarre ritual but if after 28 days I am going out into the real world then I am determined to smell good and look reasonable. A quick apple and orange juice and then I climb into my partners car and get ferried to the GP car park, there I wait until I get hailed. In I go and wait for the nurse to mix up the injection and then there is the injection, left side. I return to the car and my partner takes me for a ride the long way round the villages. It was good to see the fields around the village and to have a brief moment of seeing the world.
Once home we all settle into our work spaces, partner in the office, eldest daughter in the back room and me in the shed. Coffee and biscuits and I settle down to write some letters. I also send some packs of meadow garden seeds to friends. It’s not an original idea as a friend mentioned to me that she had been sent seeds by a friend and had enjoyed the gift. I finished my letters and gave them to my daughter, who acts as my Hogwarts Owl. A quick lunch of soup and bread and back to the shed to try and record an enabling environment video.
What a performance this turned out to be. No sound, so I spend an hour on two laptops trying to get the microphone level up far enough to hear on the replay. I finally get the technology sorted out, and write some prompt notes and then play with the lighting to get my best side in focus. I start to record videos and I make the startling discovery that I am total crap at talking to video. I try several times and it just gets worse. In the end I quit and pack up the shed and stomp off to the house beginning to feel my sore stomach and a smidgen tired.
I tidy the kitchen and head to the lounge to watch the last two episodes of DEVS. I like it but at core it’s the old argument about single or multiple universes, one universe versus all possible universes in an infinite co-existence. I’m not a fan of the multi universe theory it seems too much of a cop out from the difficulties of this one. It’s too convenient to deflect into multi-universes as an explanation when the going gets tough. Dinner arrives, which tells me this universe is the one I like. During all this Mr Amazon arrives and delivers some more IT stuff so that I can ensure that everyone has a backup drive and a case to keep it in. So I set my new backup drive and let my machine begin to back, which being the first time will take a considerable time. I write the blog and watch the laptop back up. I expect that this is it for the night. Tomorrow I will master the art of video making, after my work one to one.
