05.07.08

What a Dire Week that was

Posted in General Colin McNulty Stuff at 4:45 am by Colin McNulty

A diary of a terrible week and an explanation of why there was no Friday Fun post this week (as promised):

  • At the beginning of the week my daughter got sick, full on vomiting, the works. She nearly missed a birthday party because of it, which when you’re 7, would have been a world ending disaster.
  • I’ve finally had to come to a decision I didn’t want to make about work, and it’s not a good one. Won’t bore you with the details but I’m going to have to make a slight change of direction.
  • As per my last post, my Wordpress Blog was hacked, necessitating the best part of a day to upgrade it and get everything re-setup (plugins etc).
  • The wife is finding it harder than she thought finding a contract as a jobbing programmer.
  • A world ending event did happen to my daughter: she dropped the top off the (very rare) ice-cream I bought her, on the floor! We had floods of uncontrollable tears for about 20 minutes. Still it’s a consolation to know that she’ll remember that day for the rest of her life. I still have vivid memories of dropping the top of an ice cream with my Grandma when I was 6! One of only a handful at that age.
  • The wife got sick, what the daughter had, lots of throwing up, it was pretty bad.
  • I got sick! Woke up at 3am hurling my guts up. Now I know I’m a fella and there’s Man Flu and all that, but I can honestly say, it was the worst illness I’ve had for as long as I can remember. For 24-36 hours I could barely move, certainly couldn’t eat. Thankfully I’m all right now and 2 pounds lighter! Must get back on the fish oil (I’ve been lax recently.)
  • I discovered that after upgrading my blog, I was locked out! Every time I logged in, I just got the Wordpress Blank Screen of Death. Which is exactly what it sounds like, a completely blank screen with nothing on it. Nothing I seemed to do could get me in. Obviously the fact that I’m writing this post (at 5am on a Saturday *sigh*) means that I fixed it, but it took all Friday afternoon to work it out. I’ll do a full post on it later, as it appears to be a common problem.
  • Now that I’m better I’m back to my normal ways: waking up far too early. Why *DO* I wake up at 5am most days when I have no reason to get out of bed?? I can’t even realistically do any Crossfit exercises that early in the morning, what would the neighbours think?

So there you have it, an appalling week by any standards. How was yours?

3 Comments »

  1. lawraine said,

    July 5, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    You wake at 5.00am:
    a) because you don’t need the sleep
    b) because you’re getting older (Ha!)
    c) it’s the best part of the day

    My week was brill, thanks!

  2. Colin McNulty said,

    July 6, 2008 at 9:51 am

    Lol, thanks for the comment Lawraine! ;)

    Everyone talks about the need for 8 hours sleep, and I used to be like that. A full 8 hours or I’d be cranky. But for some reason these last few years, I seem to wake up at 5am whether I like it or not, irrespective what time I went to bed.

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