Busy day. Got Sherlock to school, got me to work. I was the only doctor there this morning so it was a bit busy. Lots of sniffles, coughs, fevers, etc (not that kind of etc). The flowers L sent are out on the receptionist's desk now, because as nice as they smell, it's a little overwhelming in an enclosed space, and the room I see patients in is quite a small enclosed space. She says my 'young man' must be very sweet, and I told her she was right.
After work, first physical therapy appointment. Yes, it hurt. I'm fine. It's just pain; it's not as if there's anything actually wrong. If I was quiet, it's because the alternative was being snippy, and I don't want to do that. I know you're all just worried.
Picked Sherlock up. He looked at me like was going to explode for a few minutes and then declared that I was fine and not bleeding or anything so why was L so worried? Ha.
After work, first physical therapy appointment. Yes, it hurt. I'm fine. It's just pain; it's not as if there's anything actually wrong. If I was quiet, it's because the alternative was being snippy, and I don't want to do that. I know you're all just worried.
Picked Sherlock up. He looked at me like was going to explode for a few minutes and then declared that I was fine and not bleeding or anything so why was L so worried? Ha.
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I'm glad you're doing all right, John. I remember my physical therapist asking me about my pain after a session. He wanted to know if it was hurt, or just pain.
I don't think I realized the difference before that, but after, if I'm just in pain, I can ignore it and work on being careful. It's when I'm hurt I know I need to worry.
So, to summarize this ramble, I'm glad you're not hurt, and I hope the pain goes away quickly. Take care!
I'm glad Sherlock took my talk this morning seriously - although now it seems like he needs a talk about why it's not just bleeding that hurts.
Sorry I'm just...not very good at knowing what to do. You just tell me to sod off if I annoy you. I'd rather you did that, in fact.
And speaking of worrying, I was a bit worried the flowers would be banned from your work in case of...I don't know, allergies or hayfever or something! I don't know what sorts of rules you Docs have about things like that.
Banning flowers would be entirely too sensible. Riding the subway yesterday with so many bunches left me looking like I'd cried my way home.
PS: With regards to small creatures eating homework, I once did lose the top half of a worksheet to our pet rabbit. Honest!
I'm glad you're not hurt, and I hope the pain goes away quickly.
Seconding Pip.
Sherlock, you keep showing how kindhearted and considerate you are inside. It's a very good trait to have, and you've clearly come by it honestly. :)
What DW said just there, all that.
I get you, John--pain isn't pleasant, but it's ignorable. It feels entirely different when something tears or breaks or is otherwise actually damaged.
(If you weren't a doctor I'd mention ice and NSAIDs and like that. But you are, so I won't. :) )
I get grumpy as hell when I'm in pain; so I think being a bit quiet online is perfectly reasonable - especially if the questioning of how you are "really" was getting a bit much :-)
Did the degus help? My dog used to be certified to do pet visits at hospitals and nursing homes. We'd go and she'd sit on the old folks laps while they rolled around in their wheelchairs. Or she'd go from chair to chair getting all the kids on the children's ward to pet her. And I think she was definitely making people happy. But in both cases it was people who weren't able to be home and be surrounded by their loved ones. So I'm wondering if it's different when you're already in your own living room on your own comfy chair and suddenly have a lapful of small critters.
I'm sure you're in the most caring of hands and you know quite well what to do with yourself, so I shall only say that I hope the physio is as beneficial as possible and makes your life easier in the long run.
Read anything good lately beside the poem onslaught?
I get you. L didn't sound too worried yesterday, so I figured out you're resting. Or just being silent.
About being snippy - when I'm in pain, am tired, am too hungry, and/or feeling sick, I have the tendency to bite off the head of each and every person that asks "how do you feel", "does it hurt", "when will you be alright" and any variation of these. Allowed questions are "Do you need something to eat or drink?", "Can I pass you something?", "Do you need painkillers?" and "Is there anything else you need?" And then I prefer that everybody leaves me alone so I can fall asleep and don't have to concentrate on being polite.
So being snippy after physio? That's okay...
Best of luck, John. Physio sucks...ah, not very nice things, yeah. I get in the quiet mode, too. Just remember, it'll be worth it eventually. All the best!
You okay, Danger? I've picked up my glasses, so you can have a giggle at them later on, and stop telling me not to screw up my face when I'm reading :)
Thanks, guys. And the degus did help actually. They were very sweet and sleepy. It's hard to be tense when you're petting something that relaxed.
L - they look nice on you! Yeah, I'm all right, better anyway. How are you?
I'm sure you look both dashing and intelligent in your specs, L. But I do look forward to hearing what John and Sherlock (not to mention Sally and Mrs. Hudson!) have to say... :)
I am imagine you're feeling rather more sore than yesterday, John, but I won't ask--instead I'll just hope it all pays off in the end.
I was going to say that the best cure for sore muscles is more of what got them sore in the first place, but while that is generally true for normal Charlie horse, I have no idea if that's true in your case--for all I know that would do more damage--so I won't.
Yeah, okay. Bit busy. Had a good result from court though, so everyone's quite chipper.
And yet, you did.
Three cheers for good court results!
This is a perfect example of what an internet friend of mine calls "sar chasm"... :D
Yeah. I mean, well, it's never long enough, really. But that way some cases have gone recently, I'll take it.
Hard to reconcile that one person can lose their life, and another can walk free before they're 50 for it. Another one of them will barely be 30 when he's freed. But there we go. At least we caught them.
For punishment, nothing is really enough. But in terms of prevention...well, that's one-- or in this case two, I gather--murderers who won't be repeating their crime anytime soon.
Yeah. Be better if the rehab really worked. Which it can, but rarely does. Too little money.
Worse, at least in the US, is the fact that a lot of people are actively against rehab--they want prison to be punitive, full stop, and rely on that as a deterrent. (Never mind that the ever-expanding size of our prison population proves that that doesn't work in the least.)
Yeah, happens here too. very flawed system.
Wasn't it Einstein who said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? :)
Of course, it's undeniable that not only do we, as a society, disagree as to whether the primary goal is rehabilitation or punishment or crime reduction, we have no real data on how to go about accomplishing any of the above in the long term.
Ah, well. Whatever the flaws of the system, you did get two murderers off the streets, so at least that is almost certainly lives saved during the their terms of imprisonment--no small thing, and worthy of celebration.
Well, there's good data to show that certain things work very well in reducing re-offending rates.
Personally I'm all for first-timers being kept in separate wings from old lags, too. Keep them from getting into the prison culture.
By the way, for anyone enjoying the poetry jam of the other day, here's a fantastic piece from 10 O'Clock live - all about The Sun (UK tabloid newspaper, terrible rag.). (RR, I can't promise it's meter is okay, that's still all a bit above my head.)
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/10-oclock-live/video/series-2/episode-2/s2-ep2-which-witch-hunt
I have to admit I haven't looked at the data in a great many years--and when I taught criminal justice (for one semester at Brooklyn College) they didn't have much data at all, sadly. I should read up. But keeping first-timers separate makes excellent sense to me.
I can't watch the video, being not in the UK. :( (And don't kid me, you're a musician, you know beat!)
(ETA: I don't know where this new captcha system came from, but it's not as much fun as the omniscient old one....go back to the other one, Blogger!)
Er, this is it too, maybe this'll work?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2rBDoCj2Gg
Yeah, I know beat. I suppose I just don't care, when it's poetry for laughs.
And so you shouldn't. :)
(And yes, that plays... *falls off chair laughing*)
Ha, I do like Charlie Brooker.
Sherlock's very quiet, Danger. Has he decided you're fixed now? We had an...interesting talk this morning.
...Dare I ask what about?
You, my post, me, him, lots of things.
Think he's a little upset that adults have all the same worries as kids do, and it doesn't all magically get simpler.
I likened what I posted about - rational thinking telling me one thing, but fearing something else - to how he feels about us ever leaving - he knows we won't, but it doesn't stop him being scared we might.
He gave me a hug and told me he was sorry he'd ever kicked either of us.
I just didn't want him thinking about it all too much, letting it weigh on his mind.
Poor kid. He's so sweet sometimes.
I don't think he'll consider me fixed until I can pick him up again. He's been drawing on the sofa with him while I read.
He's very sweet sometimes.
Leaving now. Anything you want? Was going to stop off and buy Sherlock some ice cream.
...With me, I meant. I haven't started talking about myself in the third person.
Yeah, pears and cheddar please. What kind of ice cream?
I had images of you and him literally drawing on the sofa - redesigning the fabric pattern to some sort of anatomy diagram or something.
Whatever sort of ice cream looks as chocolatey and unhealthy and sickly as he likes best.
That would be a pretty amazing sofa, you have to admit.
Lovely. I'll have some too.
It would, and of course you can. You festooned with degus again?
Just the one. In my hair.
Think he's a little upset that adults have all the same worries as kids do, and it doesn't all magically get simpler.
Oh, dear--that has to be one of the biggest drawbacks of being so frighteningly intelligent. Most kids don't realize that (even when adults tell them that it only gets tougher) until...well, until they are adults, really.
He's very sweet sometimes.
Truly.
I have to say, it makes me especially happy that he gives you the degus to make you feel better, John--because it means he finds them comforting.
Right, locking up bike. Remove all rodents from your person and prepare to be hugged.
The last few comments? Totally made me go "Awwww" :-)
Being adult is sometimes very disappointing, especially as far as simplicity in life is concerned...
Just how do degus on head work? I had a few hamsters but that's something else... I simply can't imagine it, although it does sound funny.
CR - They just sit there. Usually because Sherlock's seeded your hair with oats, which in my hair particularly, just sit in it. They fall off John's a bit more. So then they sit there, holding an oat in the front paws, nibbling. They seem pretty happy. Then they jump onto the back of the sofa, if they want to get off.
*note to self: find somebody with degus and try it at least once* :-)
Thanks :-)
CR - the disturbing bit is they are so fast one second they're on your head, the next you've lost them... luckily they're easily bribed to return with food. but I'm paranoid we'll properly lose one one day.
L - you won't. They would just hide for a while. But they probably already consider your flat their burrow (and their cage is their bedroom), so you'd meet them early in the morning trying to take a bath in a spilled can of tea leaves or something. My hamsters broke out of their cage from time to time and usually we found them in potted plants or climbing our pillows during the night or climbing the curtains - nothing funnier than seeing a hamster hanging on a curtain and basically running up and down. Just be careful when opening and closing the main door and it'll be okay.
And they've learned the "dinner" command, too--they ought to come for that. :)
Did the ice cream work to cheer everyone up, L?
CR - I'm not quite sure how it works, but I think Sherlock is part of their pack, so I'd hope they'd come to him. We read a website when we got them, and put one of his old t-shirts he'd worn in their cage while they were lodging with Mrs Hudson, before we gave them to him, because it said then they'd bond with him. So yeah, hopefully they'd explore and return.
RR - Don't think anyone needed cheering up tonight, but everyone enjoyed it, yeah. I just wanted to get Sherlock a treat for being so good this morning, and so understanding. John just muscled in on the treat action ;)
That's much the best reason for a treat. :)
If a three falls and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?
Similarly, does there need to be a reason to have ice cream?
See you all around, I'm off to bed. Have a nice day/night/whatever :-)
Night CR.
I definitely hope that my night will contain a lot more sleep than they have recently.
I hope you do too, L. :)
If a Lestrade is in a forest, thinking all alone, is he still guilty? ;)
(if so, you can bet there's a John somewhere nearby being an...innocent bystander).
DW - silly question, of course he is.
Hoping for a good night's sleep for you L.
Cheers.
My poll is showing horrific double standards from you lot, it's true.
Told you, it's my face. I just look harmless.
I voted "guilty" for both of you. Just for the record.
And I think I've proven I know all about being an innocent bystander. Got it down to a science, me. :D
My iPod is on a Clash kick. 7 of the last 9 songs. Apparently it's feeling rebellious today.
Harmless isn't the same as gorgeous, which is what your face looks to me.
DW - I heartily approve of your ipod's taste.
I'm still on "refuse to answer", FYI. And insomnia is nice. Not. :-)
DW - I had a nice Alice Cooper stretch earlier this morning. Followed by Santana :-)
Ok, Off to Bed, take 2...
FWIW, I voted "guilty" for both of you, too. Maybe I've just got a cynical mind, but I never trust anyone who looks as harmless as you claim to, John...
"Train in Vain" is my favorite, then probably "Bankrobber." :) What's on your iPod?
Good luck, CR. And Alice Cooper + Santana is a nice mix.
My iPod invariably--and I mean literally every single time--plays a showtune/song from the Great American Songbook when my subway train stops at 42nd Street. (For those who aren't New York familiar, 42nd Street is the heart of the New York theater district.)
These things are sentient, I'm telling you.
Greg, John - ...I have to confess that I voted with the double standard, but from my end, it's all comparatively speaking! *ducks the rotten fruit* And either way, it's all very sweet and adorable the way the two of you play off each other. =)
RR - Do you set your iPod on random when you listen to it? I learned (from a TV show, no less!) that when you set your iPod on shuffle or random, it's not actually random because it runs on a math equation that chooses songs "at random." That's why iPods seem to be sentient or like certain artists. Of course, that's the logical explanation for it. I think a little mystery in life never hurt anyone. ;)
~A from NW
No luck so far. But my husband can't sleep either, so we're being insomniac together... Ah, silver linings :-)
so we're being insomniac together
That's what they're calling it these days, eh?
Must be that slang stuff all the kids are using. *nods*
Is say that I'll join you and your husband... but that just sounds odd, now!
Heh, yes, it would sound odd if you said that... :)
(I'm sorry you're having another white night, L.)
Aww, Lestrade. Clearly you need a better sleep contract.
Have you tried counting motorcycles jumping over school buses?
Seems to me what Lestrade needs to do is wait for a really really boring meeting.
Then he records it!
Play the recording back at night, should be no trouble in going to sleep then. Practically programmed into him.
I like it, Rider--really, really like it.
Hee hee hee!
Rider! I was just thinking we hadn't heard much of you lately. That's a great suggestion.
Or, find a military plan online. That'll put you right out. Like this one: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/usaf/docs/tbmcs/CON-OPS.html
which includes this gem:
The CTAPS BSD project will gradually acquire, field, and support these attributes as CTAPS capability evolves and incorporates NRT data feeds from TADIL-A, TADIL-B, TADIL-J, Forward Tell, JOTS, OTH-G, NATO Link-1 and Link-21, and other information sources.
Oy vey, DW!
Or there are always computer manuals. Or the manuals for other electronics. Usually written by people with a very uncertain grasp of English...
Well, Lestrade, hope you're having a tiny bit of a lie in today. Are you off this weekend?
Are you working today, Doc?
Well, I got some sleep, in-between bouts of wakefulness. Think I'm too exhausted to be awake all night.
Anyway, leave work early tonight to pick up Mycroft, so not such a long day.
RR - I tend to find badly translated manuals amusing, rather than boring :)
Heh! Yes, well...it all depends on how incomprehensible they are. :)
But I am sorry you didn't get more sleep.
Oh, lovely!--Mycroft's coming home for half-term, right? How long is he home for?
He and Sherlock have both got a week off.
Sherlock must be thrilled!
He's currently dancing around the kitchen/sitting room, singing a song about not going to school, and what he and Mycroft will be doing. So yeah, pretty thrilled.
:)
I don't believe I've ever heard a song that included the lyrics "eggs benedict" and "baked Alaska"...
I really wish I could hear/see him!
Being insomniac together in our case means cuddling in bed and imitating sleep in the silent hope that it becomes true or that we'll be at least better rested than if we were awake-awake :-) I'd say feel free to join the cuddle pile but I think you're better off starting your own: my husband growls when our cats try to join us... I think it's because I then scratch their ears and not his. *meow*
By the way, recaptcha on the phone sucks!
My mother swears she used to have a manual that had been translated from the German and "small brass nut brazed to a spindle" had become "small brown mother cooked on a spit"
DW I was off on hols, a week in NZ visiting friends then when I got home I still had some days owing so I hopped on the bike and rode where the fancy took me.
Reckon the motorcycle was happy to stretch its legs, luckily none of Lestrade's counterparts were around when it was happiest.
CR - Recaptcha on the computer isn't much better either. I'm not blind, but even I can't tell what a word is if there's a giant inkblot in the middle of it!
Greg, John - Yay that Mycroft is home! Will the dogs be coming as well? =) Oh, and I always found college-level Biology textbooks to be immediately sleep inducing. I never lasted more than one paragraph in.
DW - Should I be worried that even though I don't know any of the nouns, I still understand the gist of that sentence?
Off to chase sweet dreams!
~A from NW
I voted innocent. Was I supposed to tell the truth?
AfNW, I had to look most of that one up. Thank goodness there's an entire regulation his of acronyms and terms and their definitions.
Too funny, SH. :D
I'm so excitrled Mycroft is home, it's a little embarrassing. But still, you guys deserve a great week!
Anthea will be bringing the dogs and Mycroft's bags home, yeah.
I feel slightly guilty that John's alarm clock this morning was Sherlock dancing and singing on my side of the bed...enthusiastically. throwing shapes like a pro. Danger groaned in the way only someone dragged from a deep slumber by lyrical gems such as 'going to the pa-ark, dogs are going to ba-ark' can.
CR - not sure how Danger would respond to me scratching behind his ears. I'll try it.
"throwing shapes"?
Can't fault his rhymes--or the sentiment!
Were you at the surgery this morning, John, or were you able to get some more sleep once Sherlock was off to school?
DW - "posing" I guess... Fits in the context :-)
AfNW - sure, sure, only at least on the normal monitor I see the recaptcha and can try to guess what it is while typing. On my Android that {@&#!! hides the moment I hit the typing field and so I have to guess what it is and try to remember it while typing. And my memory is not that strong...
L - try and then let us know :-)
Ladies and Gents, today officially sucks like an industrial vacuum cleaner! So after getting something around 4 hours of sleep (I simply don't understand how I could function like this ten years ago without any problem!) I wake up with niiiice stomachache of that kind that makes nearly anybody quite accomplished sprinter. I've spent quite some time on the porcelain throne and got late for work.
I would actually stay at home like this, only our landlord decided that today is a good day to have gas pipes in the whole building changed. And where are the gas pipes located? Right next to my currently most favorite place in the flat.
So I went to the office, because open space was never favorite stuff of mine. I take tram for literally two stops. Some stupid @@&#&&&@#!!! decided to use her perfume right there, in the car! So I got nice breathing problems and itching eyes as well - and the perfume was some kind of cheap and overly sweet stuff, no quality, definitely wasn't worth it.
Then my PC crashed and froze. Sweet. I've already kind of expected that. But the last drop was that I tried to type a comment on my phone not to be so bored you-know-where and what? Yes, my android decided that it absolutely needs to eat half of my comment when it was nearly done.
This is not supposed to be Monday. This is Friday. Even Rebecca Black knows that Friday is supposed to be awesome!
Friday, Y U No being pleasant to me?!
*/rant*
DW - Am I showing my age? Throwing shapes - like people used to dance at raves, lots of hand an arm movements. Big fish, little fish, cardboard box?
....I have no idea what you're talking about. How 'bout you demonstrate, get Doc to tape you, and then post so we'll understand?
Where did Sherlock learn to do that, I wander? lol
CR, that sounds like a day that deserves going home as soon as possible. Like, lunchtime. :(
L - I fully second DW's idea of proper instructions on the video ;-)
DW - As soon as my husband confirms that our toilet is private again I'm out of here... As long as the workers are there I's rather stay in the office with all amenities working. And with lockable door. And without a hole in the floor. And without a hole in the ceiling...
I'm laughing about the situation. It feels kind of like being Wile E. Coyote in a cartoon. Or Jon from Garfield. Or something like that.
Right, going to get a kids' TV character to demonstrate, in my stead. You can join in!
Believe me, it all made sense when you were at a rave, festooned in glow sticks, surrounded by a lot of people in the same state...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgzS18Vktm0&feature=related
Sherlock was also air-guitaring. With more energy than anyone should have that early in the morning.
Not your age, L--I have only the vaguest idea of what you mean, too. When you have some downtime, maybe you can find us a YouTube. (You have nothing more interesting to do, I'm sure. :))
It took me 5 tries--FIVE!--to get my captcha accepted last time. Like you, CR, the image slides up when the keyboard appears. ( And I'm really sorry you're having such a horrid day.)
Just a few hours until half term and Mycroft!
I should point out there's a lot more to throwing shapes than that one song - it's just the most famous.
If I didn't have so much trouble seeing the captchas, I could have avoided sounding like an idiot. (Always blame the technology. It makes you sound young and clever.)
Interesting dance moves, L. :D I imagine it worked well in a crowd--doesn't seem to need much room.
(I bet excited/happy!Sherlock was adorable, even early in the morning. :))
*stares at video*
*imagines way more hip action in the nail in the wall move*
I...did you do a lot of nitrous at those raves you attended, L., back in the day? :D
Then again, I remember doing the electric slide and the cha cha with way more panache than was strictly necessary any number of times, so whatever gets your groove on!
I, alas, cannot dance. I have all the coordination on the dance floor of Bamboo on ice. I'll just live vicariously through y'all, as I seek to do so often. :)
I see you neatly avoided the "who taught Sherlock big fish little fish" question. However, we woo know who taught him air guitar, si I'm sure qebcan guess. That's such a cutebimage, especially if it involved sliding in socks on the floor with wooden spoons. ...did it?!
Bambi, seem, know who, so, we can, cute image
*sigh*
Is it wrong that I am totally laughing my head off? :-D You totally made my day better, if unintentionally. Thank you.
I was able to correctly translate all of them but Bamboo. It's like a vocabulary game!
Yeah, Bamboo was really throwing me there. The capitalization should have tipped me off! :D
I assumed bamboo on ice was some saying I'd just never heard before. The rest I got.
Sherlock and I do air guitar to the radio in the kitchen sometimes. He wasn't exactly doing big fish little fish, but very similar movement. After this, I'll obviously have to teach him the whole thing over half term.
And I'm going to be ridiculously late fetching Mycroft, who's said he doesn't mind, but I feel like shit about it.
Think of it this way, L--Mycroft would rather ride with you than get home as early as possible. :)
I'm at Anthea's with the dogs. It's fine. If you can't make it in the next few hours I'll just get a lift with Anthea when she leaves, it doesn't matter.
Hi, Mycroft!
I know these sound like polite, meaningless questions, but I'd really like to know--how have you been? How's school been going? Have you managed to find some interesting teachers and/or congenial schoolmates?
Glad I could provide amusement for y'all. Seriously, sounds like most of us have needed it. Sorry for the delay. I'm on weeds and seeds detail.
I'm on the way, sorry. Be there soon
On a completely different subject--have you been making any progress on the Mary mystery, John? (I get that you might not be able to tell us what's going on, I was just wondering if anything was.)
Travel safe, L!
Weeds and seeds, DW?
Base cleanup, RR. Trimming hedges, pulling weeds, raking, sweeping, cleaning out cabinets and closets, shredding shred piles, etc.
Ah! I hope it was at least a nice day, since part of it was outdoors work. (I actually very much enjoy a good clean out, myself. :) )
Gorgeous day for it! :)
The only drawback is it means no actual work is getting done before a three-day weekend, so you either have to stay late, work over yhe weekend, or come in on the holiday.
But the.base looks nice, so...
Cleaning IS "actual work"--more than lots of things people call work! If you like, my mom can come over and explain this. :)
I voted guilty on both too. ^_^
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