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My Dad ok for now PLUS Random Rants...
14 years ago
Sorry guys, will respond to comments and stuff soon. Anybody who read my last journal will know that i've had a busy week. Turned out that my Dad had another bleed on the brain, which had something to do with the amount of steroids he has to take being reduced far too quickly, or something like that. He spent a couple of days in hospital and underwent some tests but nothing else to report thankfully. Visiting him is difficult at the moment because mentally he's the most depressed man i've ever seen. It can be even worse at times because he takes out his frustrations on the wrong people. His memory seems to be slipping slowly but surely, at least thats what i can see. He told me the other day that he just wants his "old life back", but when a doctor tells you that you may never walk again its understandable that he feels so damn depressed.
I feel so damn helpless too.
Why may he never walk again? Because a doctor didn't bother to check whether or not he had DVTs (blood clots) in his legs or not. I'm not going to get on my high-horse about the NHS (even though it's a pile of steaming excrement) but when somebody's legs are turning blue and swelling up to the point that even the swelling is swelling up, surely that's not right?...
Yeah, i was being a tad sarcastic there, but sarcasm can be good for making a point. It's also a good way for me to let off some steam when life is doing nothing but kicking me and my family in the nuts.
Thanks to everybody who commented and showed their support though. It's nice to know that not everybody in life is an asshole.
RETRODANNO'S RANDOM RANTS AND THOUGHTS AT THE MOMENT.
(Its not all doom and gloom but i might swear a bit, just to warn you)
Just watched the second episode of the new series of Top Gear. Surprise, surprise that Captain Slow and Hamster aren't making any jokes or remarks about their co-presenter's infidelity... Enjoyed the part where they raced around the Monaco GP Circuit. I'm an on-and-off F1 fan and Monaco was always my favourite track.
I thought my beloved Xbox 360 had bitten the dust yesterday. I got the infamously dreaded 'red rings of eternal doom'. Thankfully though, the red rings appeared and shut down my console because i had accidentally dislodged the plug from the mains socket. I guess it was a sort of 'holy shite i'm not plugged in properly so i'd better shut down just incase i cause an electric shock and the world ends and restarts with a race of half-robotic-half squirrel species that will make us all gather nuts and eat them until we all explode' kind of thing...
If i read the words "Arsenal FC", "Cesc Fabregas", "Transfer" and "Barcelona" in tomorrow's Daily Mirror Sport pages i will rip out the page and use it as toilet paper. ENOUGH! I GET IT! JUST GO TO BARCELONA ALREADY! I'm so SICK of this story that i actually find reading about Wayne Rooney's hair transplant more appealing! I think he should grow an afro, at least then it'll look like he has a brain in that jug-eared bonce of his...
Some people think i'm boring, so i joined Twitter. After joining Twitter i realised that i was actually quite interesting compared to some people.
"I have just made myself a sandwich! 8-D " Have you really? Well then, perhaps you should eat that sandwich because while you are telling us all about you food-related handywork your sandwich is being devoured by a swarm of hungry flies. Either that or the dog ate it...
"The dog just ate my sandwich! >8-( " See? I told you! Now then, have you learned your lesson?
"I have just made another sandwich! <8-3 " I guess not...
I like writing sentences and ending them dot-dot-dot...
My beloved girlfriend jokes that i write more journals that i do any actual artwork. I liked English during my school years, especially when we could do some creative writing. I guess i just like to show that side of myself. At least it's different to drawing Mr. Needlemouse all the time right? Any haters in the house?
I work as a baker in a supermarket. Why is it that when i order 2 boxes of Parisiens (large baguettes), a box of white crusty bread rolls and some chocolate muffins, the depot sends me a box of jam doughnuts, some white finger rolls (hot dog rolls) and 2 boxes of wholemeal baps?! DOES NOT COMPUTE...
I want to break-out my cheap Mariokart scalextric and build one of the N64 circuits, including all the scenery and stuff. I R NERD.
Would take a while to do, but the results could be awesome. Or i could just play Mariookart 64 dot-dot-dot.
Duke Nukem Forever disappointed me. I haven't completed it yet, because i feel more compelled to play other games. As much as i enjoyed those 'funny playing tips loading screens' at first, i then got sick of reading them, because every time you die (and it will happen a lot) you have to sit and wait for an ice-age before you restart playing again. The overly-long development time mixed with 3DRealms going bust has really affected the quality of what should have been an awesome game. It just reeks of "ok, we've been developing this game long enough, lets just finish it quickly and hope for the best".
My current favourite website is: www.dorkly.com. Every time i watch "Ecco's friends are stupid dolphins" i crack up. The 'Sonic for Hire' series is also very funny, particularly that episode where Kirby gets Sonic to murder one of the happy-go-lucky Dreamland natives.
Anyhoo, off to the chippy for more healthy food. I just hope the chips i have today are better than the 'very old potatoes-tasting' ones i had last week...
The Retro One.
I feel so damn helpless too.
Why may he never walk again? Because a doctor didn't bother to check whether or not he had DVTs (blood clots) in his legs or not. I'm not going to get on my high-horse about the NHS (even though it's a pile of steaming excrement) but when somebody's legs are turning blue and swelling up to the point that even the swelling is swelling up, surely that's not right?...
Yeah, i was being a tad sarcastic there, but sarcasm can be good for making a point. It's also a good way for me to let off some steam when life is doing nothing but kicking me and my family in the nuts.
Thanks to everybody who commented and showed their support though. It's nice to know that not everybody in life is an asshole.
RETRODANNO'S RANDOM RANTS AND THOUGHTS AT THE MOMENT.
(Its not all doom and gloom but i might swear a bit, just to warn you)
Just watched the second episode of the new series of Top Gear. Surprise, surprise that Captain Slow and Hamster aren't making any jokes or remarks about their co-presenter's infidelity... Enjoyed the part where they raced around the Monaco GP Circuit. I'm an on-and-off F1 fan and Monaco was always my favourite track.
I thought my beloved Xbox 360 had bitten the dust yesterday. I got the infamously dreaded 'red rings of eternal doom'. Thankfully though, the red rings appeared and shut down my console because i had accidentally dislodged the plug from the mains socket. I guess it was a sort of 'holy shite i'm not plugged in properly so i'd better shut down just incase i cause an electric shock and the world ends and restarts with a race of half-robotic-half squirrel species that will make us all gather nuts and eat them until we all explode' kind of thing...
If i read the words "Arsenal FC", "Cesc Fabregas", "Transfer" and "Barcelona" in tomorrow's Daily Mirror Sport pages i will rip out the page and use it as toilet paper. ENOUGH! I GET IT! JUST GO TO BARCELONA ALREADY! I'm so SICK of this story that i actually find reading about Wayne Rooney's hair transplant more appealing! I think he should grow an afro, at least then it'll look like he has a brain in that jug-eared bonce of his...
Some people think i'm boring, so i joined Twitter. After joining Twitter i realised that i was actually quite interesting compared to some people.
"I have just made myself a sandwich! 8-D " Have you really? Well then, perhaps you should eat that sandwich because while you are telling us all about you food-related handywork your sandwich is being devoured by a swarm of hungry flies. Either that or the dog ate it...
"The dog just ate my sandwich! >8-( " See? I told you! Now then, have you learned your lesson?
"I have just made another sandwich! <8-3 " I guess not...
I like writing sentences and ending them dot-dot-dot...
My beloved girlfriend jokes that i write more journals that i do any actual artwork. I liked English during my school years, especially when we could do some creative writing. I guess i just like to show that side of myself. At least it's different to drawing Mr. Needlemouse all the time right? Any haters in the house?
I work as a baker in a supermarket. Why is it that when i order 2 boxes of Parisiens (large baguettes), a box of white crusty bread rolls and some chocolate muffins, the depot sends me a box of jam doughnuts, some white finger rolls (hot dog rolls) and 2 boxes of wholemeal baps?! DOES NOT COMPUTE...
I want to break-out my cheap Mariokart scalextric and build one of the N64 circuits, including all the scenery and stuff. I R NERD.
Would take a while to do, but the results could be awesome. Or i could just play Mariookart 64 dot-dot-dot.
Duke Nukem Forever disappointed me. I haven't completed it yet, because i feel more compelled to play other games. As much as i enjoyed those 'funny playing tips loading screens' at first, i then got sick of reading them, because every time you die (and it will happen a lot) you have to sit and wait for an ice-age before you restart playing again. The overly-long development time mixed with 3DRealms going bust has really affected the quality of what should have been an awesome game. It just reeks of "ok, we've been developing this game long enough, lets just finish it quickly and hope for the best".
My current favourite website is: www.dorkly.com. Every time i watch "Ecco's friends are stupid dolphins" i crack up. The 'Sonic for Hire' series is also very funny, particularly that episode where Kirby gets Sonic to murder one of the happy-go-lucky Dreamland natives.
Anyhoo, off to the chippy for more healthy food. I just hope the chips i have today are better than the 'very old potatoes-tasting' ones i had last week...
The Retro One.
*hugs*