News of the day.

Good morning all, a fine and wonderful Monday to all those of you who are working. A hot steamy Monday for those who are not, unless of course you have air-conditioning or something similar at home.

I woke up this morning after a particularly restful night to find that the temperature was going into the thirties again. It's wonderful to have some form of air-conditioning, however it's not fun if this is not turned on, because you are trying to save the planet, electricity or some similar tomfoolery that makes no sense to me.

It's rather difficult to wake up every morning knowing that your life hangs on a knife's edge.

At present, I seem to be leading a momentary calm, charmed life. Of course I have no problems, besides anaemia for which injections of iron seem to be indicated. Alas we are discovering the hard way that unless the liquid iron is taken immediately after food then all it does is to bring on violent retching and other unpleasant after-effects. So there is one lesson learned folks, have your iron after meals and watch out for constipation (sigh).

Then of course there is the right-hand. This is completely useless at present, an appendage that hangs by my side and provides moments of pain whenever there is movement involved. I'm taking two different drugs to try and control the pain, this works most of the time, but not always.

The Dragon Dictate package is becoming a little bit useless at present as it manages to pick up approximately one in five words that I say, this is possibly because of my pronunciation or my lack of ability to dictate into the microphone. Still it is an amusing attempt at undertaking communications in a most unusual way.

If you are interested, my preferred way of communicating these days is to use either Google talk or Skype. The two means of communication enable me to talk to people and see them at the same time. If this was being done at work using the normal work equipment it would cost a small fortune, however, using the free mechanisms available on the Internet today it becomes a lot easier and a lot cheaper (it's free) than ever before. So if you're interested and you have the time and equipment available, give me a call on one of the two mechanisms or on the phone I would infinitely prefer that to having to type out these sort of missives on a daily basis.

Is there any chance that some of you would like to try doing this with me? Let me know by a response to this blog, or by contacting me one of the media available.

I would close this morning, feeling chatty and await your first experience of chatting with me.

To have fun with this is going to be a new experience for some and overrated for others, but it's worth a try to ask.

Now it's back to the daily grind of reading a book, seeing a video, watching the news, talking with Leanne or maybe even having a day out shopping, visiting a doctor or nurse for some form of treatment or another.