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  • Mark 15:13 on June 30, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    On the desk I have 3 different inhalers, a peak flow meter (I’m between normal and 150 down) and I’m on day 5 of steroids. Yet for no reason and with no warning I seem to lose half my lungs. I literally cannot breathe in beyond a certain point. Up to that point is fine. No wheezing, no warning, just shut down.
    No asthma nurse, dr appt again on friday.

    Ever been mid-yawn and been unable to finish it? You have that odd feeling/sensation and there is that need to get the yawn, to complete it? That’s what I am like constantly. The ability to take a full lungful of air has just about gone but this extra stopping is worrying. Haven’t been this concerned about my asthma for years, many years.

    It’s not the heat - it’s been coming on for a few weeks. And I’m not cyanotic at all.

    It’s very very strange and very unwelcome. And breathing is a very tiring business indeed.

     

    • Krys 21:38 on July 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      That’s what my breathing is like when it’s “gone”…but I’m not asthmatic. Go figure. I’ve never been able to explain to anyone how the very act of breathing can tire you out… Not nice :(

  • Duck run shoot die

    Mark 18:13 on June 29, 2009 | 6 Permalink | Reply
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    I have CoD4 on 360 and PS3 now. And by the end of the week should have a decent headset for both. So online time!

    I have not played any FPS online before. I assume there are several game types and learning the environments is key to them all (along with weapons that might suit each). But if you do play online what would you see as being good preparation in terms of playing the normal game? I would not expect to be excellent online by a long way but equally I don’t want to be a naive bullet magnet.
    In the game so far I have got past the mission to protect the war pig (the mission before you get into the gunship). I’ve done up to there on the 360 and twice on the PS3 (first time was on my daughter’s profile so had to redo). That’s very limited experience I know and my ‘ohshititsagrenadethrowitbackquickBOOM’ isn’t so hot yet so I’d like to have more of a clue.
    So where should I be?

     

    • Bookscribbles 00:23 on June 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Practice aiming for the head and learn the maps - god, long time since I played COD4 online.

      • Mark 15:25 on June 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply

        The maps is the bit. I know the war pig is a map but I assume all other ground scenes are too?

        And headshots - hah. Very much more accident than design right now :)

    • Bookscribbles 20:17 on June 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Bits of them … ‘host’ your own multiplayer game, lock it with just you playing and you can explore the maps

      • Mark 13:34 on July 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply

        I didn’t know you could do that - but I haven’t rtfm’d at all yet. I’ll certainly give that a try.
        Now all I need is a PS3 upstairs and we can have in-house multiplayer :) I reckon I could swing that one too!

    • Donncha O Caoimh 09:43 on July 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I got so frustrated with online play I gave up. I didn’t pay for xbox live either after the month’s free trial as I was so crap at it. Wander around a map, crouched down etc and BANG, yer dead.
      I was crouched behind a door one of the last times I played Modern Warfare online and suddenly collapsed dead. The death cam showed a guy sneaked up behind me and knifed me!

      Don’t bother with the headset, all you’ll hear is (American?) teenagers calling each other “nigga” and “gay” and “queer”.

      Loving Modern Warfare single player though. I’m playing through it again looking for all the laptops.

      • Mark 13:37 on July 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply

        I know it will frustrate me but knowing they can hear some good old-fashioned swear words will help me feel better :) The learning curve will be interesting. I bought it because I joined a gaming forum - http://oaps.org - and FPS is played a lot there. Rather than just jump in I wanted to get a clue first.

  • Mark 13:47 on June 24, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Reply
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    The diet continues. As of this morning I have lost 15kg / 33lb. Which is nice. I thought when I got to this weight (85kg) I though I’d feel better and I would have the body I wanted. I do feel better but the bod is not yet there. It’ll never be sculpted, honed and bronzed but it isn’t quite right. I thought this when I got to 90kg. So now I’m aiming for 80kg. When I get there I will buy some new clothes. I’m re-discovering ones that did not fit before but I do need some new stuff.

    In other news…. Burnout Paradise is now completely completed. Still play though because it’s an amazing game. Motorstorm: Pacific Rift is a pile of steaming skank. Just bought CoD4 on the PS3 and need to remember to try Team Fortress (I have it in the Orange Box).

    Like the theme?

     

    • Matt 17:57 on June 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      That’s really impressive you’ve been able to lose that much weight — definitely watch out for your health though.

    • Mark 10:35 on June 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks :) And it’s dropping by an annoying 2lb/week rather than 3-4 which was my orginal intention but no indications I’ve gone wrong yet which is good. Other issues are unrelated.

    • Hanni 11:22 on June 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Wow, that really is incredible. Congratulations!

      Nice theme too ;)

  • Mark 17:41 on June 22, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    I joined the Labour Party today.
    It’s really easy for the smug Tories to have a pop at the govt right now just as it was for New Labour to act that way back in 1997. Of course some are smug, some realistic and some just plain childish but that says more about them than their party. So why join?
    It is a case of putting money where my mouth is to be honest. I do not believe in the core values of the Conservatives. Those smug Tories now can be quiet because I lived through Thatcher’s time - I have seen what those values are and I do not like. And when those smug Tories say “Ah but it’s not like that now” they will be the same ones who in 1997 said that New Labour had sold out to get into power. Anyway, I do not like what they stand for. There is only one Conservative MP I admire - Anne Widdecombe.
    There are several Labour MP’s I admire - Tony Benn, Dennis Skinner, Frank Field, Gordon Brown, John Prescott. I am perfectly aware these are Old Labour but if their values persist - which I believe they do - then they are values I share, they are values I want to see used, supported and if my joining and paying a few £ a month helps then all is good. Giving time may be involved, not sure about that yet for practical reasons. And it is not that I am joining because I think Prescott threw a great punch at that guy or that Frank Field should have been listened to more. It is because I believe that what Labour stands for is right. You have to take the long view and for me the Left offers me for us than the Right. (and no, the Centre doesn’t work for me. Pick a side..)

    Apparently I can make a blog at the Labour site. I’ll pass on that one :)

     

  • Mark 17:22 on June 22, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Wherever you are sitting, really slump forwards. Get a really horrible scrunched up posture - and then breathe in. That’s how I am. Not slumped, but that’s as much as I can breathe in most of the time. Over the last few weeks I’ve had this effect come and go. I was being good with my inhalers anyway but they weren’t helping. Not a full asthma attack but it feels like the start of one.
    Then toward and over the weekend it got worse. Saturday got really close to me wanting / needing to go to casualty and felt very odd when at one point I broke out in a sweat all over. But then it calmed down a bit. So one breath in several dozen is okay, the rest not. Pulse is okay. It’s very odd and may well not be asthma but whatever it is the worry level isn’t going down. And you probably have no idea how tiring breathing actually is.

     

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