Here's someone who's embedded body monitoring technology under his skin.
The article seems to say it only monitors body temperature, which makes one wonder...why he bothered? Proof of concept, I suppose. Still, interesting.
Sherlock's done very well at school and got a sticker in his book - not just academically, but he's done well in getting along with the other students and listening to Mrs N too, which is wonderful, and we're very proud of him. We're planning a trip to the bike place when Mycroft comes home, partly as a reward for him. I imagine he'll also get cake. Between L and Mrs H, cake is inevitable. ;)
The football has gone well...there maybe have been some dancing around the room. It's been a good day, despite the weather.
Sherlock was sitting on L's shoulders last night, watching the fireworks, and when I glanced at them, they were both looking up at the sky with the exact same expression. There's something about the tail end of summer that seems to drag on and on, until you've hit the middle of October and still feel it with you. Maybe it's just me, but the air seems clearer now.
Sherlock's done very well at school and got a sticker in his book - not just academically, but he's done well in getting along with the other students and listening to Mrs N too, which is wonderful, and we're very proud of him. We're planning a trip to the bike place when Mycroft comes home, partly as a reward for him. I imagine he'll also get cake. Between L and Mrs H, cake is inevitable. ;)
The football has gone well...there maybe have been some dancing around the room. It's been a good day, despite the weather.
Sherlock was sitting on L's shoulders last night, watching the fireworks, and when I glanced at them, they were both looking up at the sky with the exact same expression. There's something about the tail end of summer that seems to drag on and on, until you've hit the middle of October and still feel it with you. Maybe it's just me, but the air seems clearer now.
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I might have to use that, Hottie, as my catchphrase.
Greg Lestrade - Cake Is Inevitable.
You okay? Your tags are...mildly worrying.
I think that must make you the Cake Crusader.
Yeah, I'm good, actually. I've just been thinking about things. Must be the time of year - the change in seasons and it being close to when I met you and the boys. And the fireworks - the explosions. It doesn't bother me much, but Murray said the other day it makes the back of his brain itch, and I know what he means. Like you ought to be doing something.
Yeah, it's soon huh, our little anniversary of colliding :)
Seems very recent, yet I the time before I knew you seems incredibly far away...
I can imagine it must send all sorts of odd signals in your brain, hearing all the explosions.
You working this week?
Yeah, tomorrow night. Maybe slightly fewer drunks than Friday night? We'll see...
Yeah, maybe fewer. Depends on the weather too. And you'll get an upturn in domestics and street robbery near Christmas for your caseload. Always do.
Ah, the holidays...always fun.
Mmm.
Bry threw an entire cottage pie at my head one year. Missed, thankfully.
I'm glad he missed. Were you the one who made it?
Yeah. He came home late. Drunk. We had an argument. I was more upset he'd smashed the dish. And the carpet stank of pie for weeks.
I know.
Just lucky you thought I was worth rescuing from myself ;)
You must've thought the same of me. I feel incredibly lucky to have you.
ha, how could I not, when I watched you with the boys?
Heh. Sherlock throwing a fit because he didn't get to see the body...
You were amazing with them. Being dumped in the deep end like that.
The look on their faces when I tried to give them a quid for sweets and Mycroft produced credit cards.... I felt so out of touch.
The look on my face... Credit cards! Ridiculous.
Ha, you managed to clamp down on the utter surprise and school your face into a grade 2 glare pretty swiftly :)
Want a brew? Or something stronger? Then bed...sitting at a desk all day is tiring.
you've both/all come a long way... I especially think how far Sherlock has come, from shin-kicking as a form of greeting, to getting a sticker for all good reports at school, plus everything at home, with caring for the degus, cooking and baking, etc. The world is a better place for having all of you together.
S
Thanks, S. Certainly feels better to me than it did before I met all of them.
L - bed sounds like a wonderful idea.
This look backward seems like an apt time to de-lurk and express appreciation. I've just this week caught up to "real time" on these blogs, having spent months reading from the beginning (and finest kind procrastination fodder it's been, too.) I'm incredibly impressed at the little community you've built, at the picture you've provided of decent and increasingly happy & healthy human beings acting like decent human beings, and just at the stamina it must take to maintain blogs over years.
I do miss a tiny bit the days when you, John, more often blogged at length, making a story of events, because your reflective? poetic? side came out more fully. But I don't mean to sound ungrateful for the current state of affairs.
Thanks to you both, and a special thanks to Mycroft for his occasional contributions, they show a truly sweet soul and are often hilarious as well. & thanks to your many regular commenters over the years.
Re-lurking,
formerlyAnon
Not to break the mood, but don't they already have body monitoring implants? I thought that's what those insulin pumps were all about.
Hey, Kestrel--Right? I was thinking about pacemakers--they not only monitor, they can notify the doctor's office if there's a problem (unless, like Cheney, you turn off the wireless!).
It' also looks painfully huge in this age of swallowable cameras and other microminiaturization. *winces*
John, I love that image of Sherlock and L watching the fireworks, identically. :)
And Sherlock does deserve bonus cake!
I guess it's moving into things which aren't medically necessary.
I don't get it. If I'd had a bad day and wanted a bath run for me when I got home I'd happily computerise the house, not implant stuff in my body.
If it's going to monitor anything, I feel like it should monitor bacteria counts so that person knows when it gets infected...
Also it's 5am here and the coffee I was so smart about making last night (French press, in the fridge) is frozen and I can't microwave it so I'm diluting it with hot water and it tastes like nothing and is, as Sherlock would say, stupid.
Sigh. The day will get better.
Ella
...that does sound like a bad start! I'm slightly confused by your frozen coffee, and diluted sounds terrible! :(. Hope your day improves by leaps and bounds.
Apparently the fridge is set too cold. The coffee was in the back and froze overnight. I imagine other things are frozen too, but I didn't investigate.
I hope it improves too, thanks :)
Ella
It's a shame you can't arrest people just for being jackasses, lestrade.
(This in response to something in the news, and not to any jackasses in my immediate vicinity.)
Ella
Did you manage blue sky instead of grey today gentlemen?
I hope you've all had the best day it was possible for you to have whatever you were up to :-)
I'm with you on that, L--I'm not even tempted by Google glass, I certainly don't want to be implanting anything not medically necessary in my body!
I hope everyone's day has been going well.
Incredibly busy. Danger might be half an hour late.
All right, I hope everything going okay. Sherlock and Mrs H are making flapjacks.
formerlyAnon - thanks, I'm really pleased you've been enjoying them! As for my longer posts, I suppose my blogging stamina is at a low ebb these days. Maybe over Christmas.
Kestrel & RR - I think it was more that it's sort of...gadgetry rather than anything vital to someone's health. The first unfortunate step toward an internal iPhone.
Ella - sorry about your coffee, and I also often think it's too bad you can't arrest people for their attitude.
Yes on the attitude. I might start.
Yeah, that's what it looked like, John--but ick! I definitely do not want to implant gadgetry. Especially because...well, computers never break down or wear out or anything. [/sarcasm]
Hmmm, attitude police--I like it!
Lestrade there's men in the street and they've got a van and Mrs Hudson came and said there was no water and there ISN'T any water and then John went and said something to the men and when he got back in he said 'bloody brilliant' but not in a brilliant way but in the way he does when we're driving and there's a traffic jam and I definitely can't have a bath or brush my teeth and if anyone has a wee or a poo we can't flush it away and it might be ALL NIGHT.
That...sounds exciting.
i'll bring a big bottle of water home.
sherlock's excited at least...
Anything else we need? I'm at the shops, just getting a few litres of water.
We'll have to find a puddle to wash Sherlock in.
Doesn't sound like you're very excited.
You might want to get some paper plates and plastic flatware.
No water is not much fun, even when they give you enough warning to fill up some pots and the tub. I hope it doesn't last as long as the men in the van estimated...
A few years ago we lost our water supply for about a week (I'm guessing SH might have been affected at the same time). It was pretty much the exact opposite of exciting...
Hope you get your supplies restored soon!
...I think they might have gone home.
Sherlock wants to pretend we're camping.
John pointed out we had water when we were camping...
Glaring is ensuing.
We had days and days of no water when they replaced the water mains in this part of Manhattan (every hundred or so years, whether they need it or not! ;)), and it was Not Fun--and that's with having water most nights, and enough warning to fill all available receptacles.
We don't have warning when building pipes go, though, and that's a misery. I feel for you.
We were fortunate in that we didn't lose our water - that was before we moved. But you don't realise how much you use water for until you don't have it.
I don't suppose the suggestion that the best thing to do would be to go to bed would work very well.
SH - I'm going to guess it would work for two of the inhabitants of the flat, but significantly less for the youngest member of the household...
ugh, no water is no fun. If it goes on too long you could go to the swimming pool place, they probably have showers you can use.
I remember the story posts too. And we haven't heard from Greg the Florist in a while either. :)
S
Greg the Florist is my fault - must try harder!
The pool does have showers, yeah, and at least Sherlock will agree to go there! I can shower at work, so I'm not too bad. Can always dip John in the Serpentine if he's too stinky ;)
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