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Townsville, Australia Joined: Aug 2006 |
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well I've nearly finished my last shift for this rotation so I'm off fro the next four days - me and some mates r gonna SMASH the training for the whole time - GO HARD OR GO HOME!
so be happy and well all my TFS buddies and I'll see you guys next week (Fri prob)
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time for this little green elf to get some sleep
c u all tomorrow incredible tfs ppl | |
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every year the F111 fighter jets come to Townsville for training exercises - they are sooooo loud but kinda cool - i know they're weapons of war and are probably not real cool for that fact but they are the most impressive machines i've ever seen.
it's cool driving passed the airport and seeing cars parked with mums and dads with their kids right under the flight path watching the jets come in overhead to land
a couple of years back at dusk on the last day of exercises - as they were leaving - their squadron leader flew low over The Strand (Townsvilles beachfront hub) and threw on the after-burners as a goodbye to the town - probably the most spectacular thing I've ever seen
ther really are some cool advantages to living in a garrison town | |
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well, i just went to have some x-rays done of my re-constructed elbow (they've gotta open it up again and take some of the wires out) and it is such a weird sensation.
i know that theoretically you're not meant to really expereince anything but i always get this feeling - like there's a fog drifting down - fall-out
in the room with the machine humming away - it's like being caught when a reactor goes critical or something....
i don't know - it was like i could feel the radiation in my flesh - it's soooooooooooooooooo creepy.
i wonder if anyone else has ever felt this?????????? | |
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well i tried to be good - i logged off tfs - but we're not real busy today so i've been browsing some creepy/freaky torture sites (it would seem about half the torture devices ever invented were developed in Spain - Tapas, Torreodors and Torture - who knew?)
any way - back now (no more mr nice guy ) | |
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well, i'm at work so *hharrumph* i guess i'd better do some.
c u all ron (as in later...) | |
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yeah - just finished tham so now i am VIBING on the msg - buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz | |
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back at work today and i'm eating these noodles called "fantastic Noodles" -
this must be some new, highly flexible definition of the word fantastic that i have been previously unaware of | |
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okay, so this is my first journal entry (generally don't have too much to say for myself, but here goes....)
about two years ago I was playing indoor cricket and I was fielding at the aptly-named "silly mid-off" position about a metre in front of the batsman.
well it's all a bit of a blur but the batsman took a huge swing and connected, not with the ball, but with my elbow/forearm, completely shattering it.
later at hospital they showed me the xrays and the break to both the radius and ulna had been so violent that the gap between the broken ends of bone was about 2 inches (this is before they opened me up)
so in for surgery - two 90-degree pieces of hard-wire and an figure-8 of soft wire put in to hold the joint together - three days in hospital in a s***load of pain and three weeks in a cast.
when they took the cast off it became clear that in repairing the elbow joint the surgeons had almost completely cut my tricep muscle from my elbow, making that elbow (my left one) stick out and look really swollen - not very attractive!
so anyway, over time I started using it a bit more and after about six months started doing some light free-weights again.
everything was fine until this morning.
i picked up my free-weights and started to do a bicep-curl when this HUGE pain stabbed through my elbow and up my arm - along the figure eight of soft wire - and i almost dropped the weight on my foot. I've been feeling a bit of movement in there reecntly (but nothing like this pain) and have been wondering if, as the muscles heal and grow, they are pushing the wires into - to say the least - uncomfortable positions.
so i call the hospital where i had the operation and they said "yeah, it's probably time to take the wires out - get a referral from your GP and come and see us to arrange it"
this means another general anaesthetic (I've already had four and apparently any more than two in one lifetime is not advisable), another two or three weeks in plaster, and a whole new round of physiotherapy and rehabilitation (and pain) - oh, and slower typing speeds
still, suppose it's gotta be done and the arm will probably ultimately be stronger for it
I just wonder how my boss cwaiggie is gonna feel about the time off and the impaired work ability? he's a great guy but he's got an IT call-centre to run.....
oh well - will let y'all know how it goes - will try to get some scans of my x-rays for y'all - they really do look awesome with the wires in - makes me feel all cyber and A.I | |
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