Well...Lestrade's off to Italy tomorrow/today/in a few hours, to pick up a serial rapist and bring him back here (London, not our flat). Sherlock hid his passport and various other items in an attempt to stop him. He's not at all happy about it, despite the fact that I have been given instructions on how to make pancakes tomorrow morning, which should at the very least give him some entertainment. We got him into bed and then us in to bed eventually. Lestrade has to be in early tomorrow. He's asleep. I was asleep.
I haven't had a really bad dream about Afghanistan for months now. It's always tempting to think I've had the last one, even though, logically, it'll probably never be the last one. Until I'm dead, obviously. Assuming you don't dream after you're dead, which I suppose isn't really a foregone conclusion. I'm probably not making much sense at this point.
We're going to pick up Mycroft tomorrow, which will be great, and barring any major travel issues, L will be home for dinner. Maybe the three of us (or Mycroft with two sous chefs) can put something together for him.
So I need to try sleeping again. Might just go for a walk first.
I was looking at this too:
http://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/training-centre/training-advice/training-plans/intermediate-17-week-training-plan/
Doesn't sound too unreasonable.
I haven't had a really bad dream about Afghanistan for months now. It's always tempting to think I've had the last one, even though, logically, it'll probably never be the last one. Until I'm dead, obviously. Assuming you don't dream after you're dead, which I suppose isn't really a foregone conclusion. I'm probably not making much sense at this point.
We're going to pick up Mycroft tomorrow, which will be great, and barring any major travel issues, L will be home for dinner. Maybe the three of us (or Mycroft with two sous chefs) can put something together for him.
So I need to try sleeping again. Might just go for a walk first.
I was looking at this too:
http://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/training-centre/training-advice/training-plans/intermediate-17-week-training-plan/
Doesn't sound too unreasonable.
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I'm on a medication that makes my dreams extra vivid, and I had a nightmare last week. It's never fun, and it takes a braver person than I to go back to sleep after.
Which is a rambling way to say that man, that sucks. And props if you go back to sleep, but a walk sounds nice.
Thanks, Becca. I feel like I have to try at least...in a while. I hope you sleep well tonight.
I hope you're both back to sleep now. I have drunk too much coffee so I'll be awake awhile yet.
I've found that cheese makes my dreams extra weird.
Ella
I, like Ella, hope you were able to get back to sleep--dreamlessly, preferably.
My nightmares are almost always about someone else, and there's no going back to sleep until I can talk to them so as to convince my subconscious they're fine. Since I can't go calling family and friends in the middle of the night...oh, well, it's not that often.
Good luck with the pancakes, John! And I hope your trip and mission go smoothly, L.
(For morning--Is it breakfast that's the problem, Sherlock, or is there something else bothering you about Lestrade's trip?)
Anything that's not a carefully-planned deviation from the usual schedule can be pretty stressful.
Ella
I'm sorry sleep isn't easy to come by tonight. I hope Lestrade has a safe and quick trip, and is able to be home tomorrow night.
The first three years or so I was out of the Army I had horrific nightmares. They tapered off, but they still ambush me every now and then. It sucks, when you haven't had one for a while and start hoping that they're gone for good. I hope you were able to get some more sleep tonight, or will be able to take a nap tomorrow.
Hope you have time (and the ability) to nap while Sherlock's in school. And that Lestrade returns as planned, that'll make lack of sleep easier to deal with.
A marathon has always seemed like an exercise in pain management to me. I know that the mental aspect of doing that is part of the appeal, but not for me. I've done a half marathon distance (sloooooowlly) and that was enough. But it would be a nice feeling to bring oneself up to that level of fitness, I admit. There's something about successfully imposing new demands on our bodies that is very satisfying.
formerlyAnon
Sorry you've had a bad night, John, I suppose the fact that it's been a few months since the last one means they're getting fewer at least. Hope you can catch up a bit later after you've survived the pancake trials this morning.
Good luck today, Greg, hope your day goes quickly and your prisoner isn't too much of a handful and you get back in plenty of time to enjoy your family weekend.
Have a good day everyone. :)
He just shouldn't go it's Mycroft day and he was going to be here and the criminal man should just WAIT and Lestrade should go when he wants and it's a long way away and we aren't even near if he needed help or was lonely and I bet the man is horrible and stupid.
And John's pancakes had legs that burnt some of them but they were still nice enough to eat.
If he could have avoided it I'm sure if would have Sherlock but sometimes its just impossible. It doesn't alter the fact that its Mycroft day though and that is very exciting :-)
I hope you have a good day at school and that you learn something interesting to tell lestrade when he gets home :-)
Your pancakes sound yummy John, I'm impressed by anyone who can manage more than pouring milk on cereal in a morning :-)
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Words to live by, I'm sure!
At the risk of stating the b** obvious, the stress of L going to Italy, cooking pancakes for Sherlock because L isn't there, plus the excitement of Mycroft weekend, is bound to get the brain going aaaaargh. And aaaaargh brains don't provide the most peaceful of nights. Hope you did get some sleep and are able to get some more before chaos descends.
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I'm here, I'm fine, paperwork is being done.
Hope you manage some sleep. You can always wake me, you know.
Those are good reasons to not want Lestrade to go, Sherlock. Perhaps next time he has to do something that bothers you you could talk to him about it instead of hiding his passport (or other things)? Then even if he has to do it anyway, you could work out a plan of what to do if he gets lonely or needs help. (I bet you're right about the man being horrible and stupid!)
But it's still Mycroft day, and Lestrade should be back tonight, too, so it should be fine. And I'm glad you had nice breakfast pancakes!
It's going well he's okay. Have himself up, so not too angry about all this.
Thanks, guys. I did get a bit more sleep after that.
...I can't decide whether those two comments are spam or not.
fA - A marathon has always seemed like an exercise in pain management to me.
I think it is, basically. Less about fitness and more about endurance, literally, as in, what you can convince your body to endure.
L - You can always wake me, you know.
I know, love. But you had a hard day ahead of you as it was and...I don't know. I wish I had, actually. Maybe at some point I'll learn.
fA, you nailed it - marathon distance really is an exercise in pain management! I only did it once, I'm no athlete and the time required for training is something I can't commit to these days, but it was an amazing experience for a one-time thing, I have to say. In New York it feels like the whole city turns out to cheer you on, and it was glorious to get to experience the camaraderie of all the different types of people who turn out to the event, both cheering and running, and to see all the boroughs of the city from that perspective. Hugely emotional and one of the best, most memorable days of my life even though I was suffering pretty badly for most of it!
Not to be an encourager or anything...
(Hi, guys, I'm still reading here! Sorry about the nightmare and the sleepless night, John. Hope you can get some rest today, though it doesn't sound likely.)
Glad u got more sleep.
He's asking if I'm texting my wife
Thirdbird - Not to be an encourager or anything...
Heh. Not sure I believe this...
L - what did you tell him?
...I can't decide whether those two comments are spam or not.
I was wondering about that, too, John. Uneasily.
Not too angry is better than the alternative, L, for sure. And what did you tell him? ;)
Told him I was commenting on my husbands blog. He now worried that he won't go to the toilet with me there. Told him a. I didn't care if he tied a knot in it and didn't go til England. B. I was surprised he was worried about such privacy given his crime
He sounds charming...
He's far better than he could have been.
He says i drink too much coffee.
What, you? Impossible. ;D
Sherlock's not even out of school yet. You can't possibly have had enough coffee to qualify as too much.
Well...he literally walked out the door as I posted that. But still.
I haven't!
Think he's worried what will happen when I need a piss.
He's trying to convince check in that I'm the criminal
Heh! And how's that working for him?
Not well. He doesn't speak Italian.
He says I have to ask why you bunch of foreigners are interested in anything I have to say. And is John fit.
I've done pain management exercises in labor and delivery, three times, and I think that's probably enough for me :-)
But it's an amazing accomplishment for those who have the wherewithal to do it.
L, I cannot believe the comments from your prisoner. Well, I can, actually. Which is quite nearly as sad as them being made.
(also found those comments a bit odd)
That's an...odd question from him.
He doesn't speak Italian.
These little details will trip you up every time.
Tell him it's because we are intelligent people with superior taste in communities. And also modest.
I find the series of prisoner comments far more entertaining, taken together, than I am sure they are when you're the escorting officer. Easily confused and perhaps rather less than bright, this representative of the criminal element. Also rather chummier than I'd have expected him to be. I guess he realizes that his opportunities for semi-pleasant chats are taking a sharp downturn in the immediate future.
Best wishes for a quick, simple journey and a pleasant reunion with Mycroft, respectively.
formerlyAnon
John, there's just been an interesting thing on radio 4, as part of More or Less. They were talking about tennis matches where the person who wins does not win the most points throughout the game. It turns out that by a wide margin the person in top-flight tennis that this is most likely to happen to is Roger Federer - he's played in 28 such matches and only been the winner in 4. They identified a couple of reasons the main one seemed to be that he never 'rests' during a match, he properly contests every point and his opponents will sometimes rest for a set so that they have more energy for the last set. It's not up on iPlayer yet but the link is http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01q5cfc and it should be up before too long, it was the last item on the show.
Thirdbird: Kudos to you & everyone else who's done the full marathon! I've done 13+ miles and realized that I could probably go 18 as a one shot, and definitely did not have the motivation to make it to 26. I have started to think, over the last year about doing a half marathon as part of an event for that experience (last time I was just training on my own to see how long a run I could handle), or at least to get that fit again (it's been some years).
Kestrel337: I think you have a valid point! Though labor & delivery was, for me, totally different in that it's inevitable. My births were fairly quick, so there wasn't much debating over "is this so bad I want pain meds." With a distance run you can give up at any time during training or the run itself, continuing is a decision that (for me, at least) is re-visited over & over.
ReRe: I think you have characterized this blog's readership quite accurately. ;-)
Lancs.Anon: Thanks for the link. I'm a fair weather fan but I usually watch what I can of the Grand Slam events. I find the discipline and tactics in top tier tennis fascinating.
formerlyAnon
I read an article on that recently, very interesting. I'll check it out when things are calmer here. Thanks!
Is John fit for what? Athletically fit?
I mean, I imagine no matter what the interpretation, the answer is "yes," I just can't fathom what he means.
Ella
fA - yeah, midwives tend to ignore the "I've changed my mind I don't want to do this after all"
Thanks for the laugh, SH!
fA
Fit for purpose?
We got Mycroft and I sat in the front all the way here
And I've landed.
He meant fit as in good-looking. I assured him John was better looking, nicer, more intelligent and generally a better human being than he was.
He called me a rude word. :)
Lovely, Sherlock!
But you were just being factual, L...
the blogs are broken or something and Mycroft says he can't fix it
Oh, dear.
How are they broken? They look okay on my iPod, and the comments are working, it seems.
everything is broken today Sherlock :-( technology fails all over the place :-(
It keeps saying server error but Lestrade called and said he's coming home and Mycroft is cooking and John is helping and he says Lestrade might be tired but he has to tell me everything about flying to Italy because I like flying
If the information helps at all, I'm not getting server errors at either blog, so it's not a universal problem.
Yay for Lestrade coming home for a proper Mycroft weekend! (Maybe he won't be as tired after dinner, so you could wait for your complete flying report until then?)
Sounds like a Mycroft weekend has well begun. I enjoy Sherlock's faith in Mycroft's tech knowledge. (It makes sense, but one's siblings are not always quick to give credit where due.) Enjoy!
(the blogs are functioning as usual in my corner of the States.)
formerlyAnon
Sherlock has hurtled down the street and thrown himself at me :)
Not that you were missed or anything... ;)
Hooray! Welcome home, Lestrade and Mycroft.
Ella
I've just shattered his illusions of my pancake making by telling him I just eat the straggly legs on the pancakes when I make them, before I give them to him...
Those spam comments - if they are spam - are a bit weird, aren't they? I didn't really read them properly before.
And Arsenal are winning :)
Aww how lovely to be so warmly welcomed. Well at least by shattering Sherlock's illusions, you're showing John's cooking in a better light and he has no excuse for not making breakfast now if his pancakes are as good as yours. (Sorry, John!) ;)
Those comments are weird, aren't they. It's not someone crazy again, like Ttid is it.
Glad you're all home together again - Let the fun weekend begin...
Ulp, joolz--not wanting to think that.
Have a lovely, fun weekend, all!
..I have just read something saying Canada is banning Marmite??? WHAT?
Let's all hope it's a spambot not a Ttid. That's an experience I'd really like not to repeat.
the Canadian's have always been sensible people Greg ;-)
I see Arsenal did well, I hope that that in some way makes up for the poor company you've had to deal with today :-)
Will/did the Ttid thing ever get to court?
Okay, someone's going to have to explain the concept of pancakes with legs to me please...
Ella
It got there, yes. He's back in prison. I... well, one day he'll be out again, which is a day I think of sometimes. And think about what I'll do.
I can see that would be a worry. I hope it's a long, long way in the future, but I reckon I'd worry anyway.
Worrying is such a weird thing, if I could have back all the energy I've spent worrying over the years I could power the national grid!
Not as long as I'd like.
I'm more concerned about the boys - where they are in life, how they deal with it.
Sherlock's never asked how long he'll be in prison for... I think he assumes anyone that bad should just never get out.
Ella - he means when there are drips/straggly bits of batter instead of one little round perfect pancake. I just nip them off and eat them...John obviously serves them ;)
I think the comments were just a spambot. I googled the second one and the links seemed to be for a facebook meme of dubious province. Probably someone trying to boost their hits.
John, does it say something about how tired I was that when I checked your link to the Marathon training I ended up giggling over Fartlek runs?
Glad you're home safe, and all together. There was definitely something up in the tech world today, because for a while there no one at my library could get into their gmail. Seems to be resolved now, though.
May your dreams be better tonight!
Yeah, I think Mycroft checked them out earlier. He thought they were spambots.
I have no idea why I'm not asleep.
Becauuusseeee too much coffee/the horror of pancake legs is keeping you awake/because sitting on a plane most of the day is not interesting so when you get off of it you're either so bored you fall asleep or so glad to be off the plane you want to stay awake forever and do all the things.
Hope you're asleep now, and have a good day tomorrow.
Ella
I just found an article Sherlock might like: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/science/earth/moving-without-feet-to-do-so.html and it leads to a website he might like too. http://creaturecast.org/
Spambots are annoying, but occasionally I find something interesting when I google the terms anyway. A Russian spy, this time, who looks like the model for someone in a Tom Clancy novel.
I hope you don't have to work tomorrow. I do, but I'll get Monday off instead.
im sorry if annoying in this blog. i just want you to follow Dmitri Polyakov. it up to you. im not force. again sorry.
The mist has gone. The sun is out. We are on the river :)
That sounds like a happy way to spend the day :-)
Are you going anywhere or is the river destination enough?
We have ended up at the Dome. Getting coffee and a sandwich :)
We saw a hangman with a noose and a person was getting hung.
That sounds scary, Sherlock. Were you in the Dungeons or is something more sinister going on in London today.
We're hoping it was a film!
I'm not sure I like the way you're saying 'hoping', Greg. ;)
We were on a boat! I'm hoping it was...well, lots of people were taking pics anyway.
We are now in the Maritime museum.
You only had to be 6 to join the navy!
What did 6 year old navyboys do, Sherlock?
The US Army has had an official age restriction of 18 since at least the (American) Civil War, but back then they apparently weren't very diligent about enforcing it, so there were a fair number of 14-16 year olds who joined up as drummer boys and such. I can't imagine what a 6-yr-old would do besides be errand runners.
Ella
Sherlock would have been commanding his own ship within days.
Everyone else would have thrown themselves overboard if they found themselves trapped on a ship with him aged six.
I hope that doesn't mean that you'll be setting sail soon, Sherlock! Or can one hope that they've now changed those rules and if so, do you know how long ago it was when they stopped allowing that to happen?
Mycroft--I'm sure Sherlock would have been making a case to command the entire Navy, and/or mutinously disregarding commands from his Commodore, and employing his own battle plans. It probably would not have ended happily.
Ella
Sailors were a superstitious lot. I'm not sure Sherlock's uncanny ability to figure out things he hadn't been there to see would have gone over well.
formerlyAnon
You have to be 16 now.
Sixteen is still pretty young.
I don't know what very young boys did in the British Navy, but in the US they were "powder boys" who ran gunpowder from the supply room to the cannons. And I'm not sure that giving Sherlock gunpowder would be a bright idea.
I hope you can find out what the hanging was all about!
Sounds like an interesting day for the four of you :-)
Speaking of interesting days, I just pulled a fake-but-real-looking gun off a kid who was carrying it around stuffed down the front of his pants. And pulling it out in the library.
He didn't believe me when I told him he was practically asking to get himself shot.
I'm going to go ahead and despair for humanity now.
Ella
Ella, I feel your pain. When I tell people I'm a librarian and they say "oh that must be a nice quiet job, sitting around reading books all day" I just start to laugh, and laugh and laugh, until they get nervous and drift away. We've got a new chief of security who wants us to write up an incident report every time a patron so much as swears at us, and I just plain don't have the time to do that much paperwork.
I'm glad it was a toy gun, though. Last time I took a gun off a kid it turned out to be real. (Unloaded, though. Luckily!)
RSF, yikes! not something they taught you in library science: how to disarm patrons.
I have fond memories of the murals in the BPL at Copley plaza... I hope the building is ok after the events last summer.
S
The building at Copley took almost no damage. One cracked window. Although the granite barriers that made that true are coming down, thanks to ... well, never mind.
I'd been taking water pistols off of kids all that summer when it happened. And the person who owned it had painted it to look like a water pistol, without telling their nine-year-old kid not to play with it. Surprised the heck out of me! (Now I just tell the kids with water pistols to take them back outside. Can't imagine why...)
1) whew! I love that building, have many happy memories of all kinds of things happening in Copley plaza, even just paddling in the fountain there.
2) yikes again! Amazing to what lengths people will go to get a Darwin award... :(
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