Tag Archives: injury

Hello 2013: Goodbye 2012

Ruth's pregnancy test, showing "pregnant".

In a belated blog post, Dan looks back on 2012, and describes it as one of the hardest years of his life. Continue reading

Living In The Future

A Google+ Hangout with my family and I.

Google+ Hangouts makes multi-user video conferencing so easy that even Dan’s mother can do it. It’s like living in the future. Continue reading

Idiocy Repeats Itself

Dan rushes down three flights of stairs to the meeting room where there’s free food left over, slips on the stairs, and… hang on: haven’t we seen this blog post before, back in 2009? Continue reading

Content Freeze

After a significant blow to the head, Dan loses the ability to write to his long-term memory for several hours. Hilarity ensues. Continue reading

Well-Wishes

Dan says thanks to everybody who, upon hearing about his dad’s injury, passed on their “get well soon” wishes. Continue reading

What I Learned About Democracy, Injury, Packing & Friendship

Dan has a busy weekend of packing boxes, promoting better democracy, fretting about his dad, and socialising with a new-found friend. There was a royal wedding in there and a trip down the river to a pub, too, but those aren’t mentioned in this blog post. Except right here. Continue reading

All Along The Watchtower

Ruth, JTA, and I have found our way to Earth – our new home, in Oxford – after the most exhausting house move I’ve ever done. Particular challenges in getting things to Earth included: My mountainous quantities of stuff, and in particular the things that… Continue reading

What’s A Cripple Been Up To?

I’m sick of hobbling round on a crutch. Sure, it was an interesting novelty for the first couple of days, even despite the fact that I got almost no sympathy from folks (and, to be fair, I deserved none – what kind of idiot cripples… Continue reading

Promised I’d Share A Photo

So here’s my foot, this morning. 92 hours after the injury, this morning it seems to have turned a deep purple. I’m quite impressed with the bruise on the toes, which never actually sustained any injury directly. Having gone from a light blue to a… Continue reading

An XKCD Moment

As a song came on the radio (well, Club 977 – The 80s Channel), Ruth laughed. “What?” I asked. “This song just reminded me of a webcomic I read today about song mash-ups,” she replied. “Oh yeah. I read that one. Which webcomic was it?”… Continue reading