Anthony Malloy

Huh, it’s all good news and I’m a surprised as anyone.

My only ‘problem’ is that my cholesterol is 5.7, a “smidgen” over the desired upper limit and, much to her chagrin, lower than my mums. All I have to do is alter my diet a little by eating sensible portions, instead of larger portions, of the not so good stuff that I like and I have to take up exercise. My pulse rate was a little fast so I’m on beta-blockers to slow that down until my exercise program kicks in.

So if you see a geek peddling and puffing around the inner west swearing and listening to The Proclaimers on his headphones don’t be alarmed, it’s just me.

Well maybe not so much change.

It’s music I’m talking about – at first I thought my tastes must have been changing but I realised the usual suspects (New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Paul Kelly, Deb Conway et al) are still there but I seem to be more open to new (well, it’s actually all older) music.

My latest ‘find’ – The Proclaimers. Yep, those Scottish lads with glasses. It all started when I downloaded Sunshine On Leith from allofmp3.com even though, as Rae pointed out after the fact, I had a copy on CD and now I’m addicted. Their site has some free downloads and if you want a chuckle (and are on broadband) check out this amusing little clip for a song that’s now stuck inside my head – There’s A Touch (Quick Time required).

And I’m going to try and use ‘haver’ in conversation tomorrow at least 3 times. Even though I’m not entirely sure I know what it means.

P.S Miss Marita, you are banned from commenting on this post!

Went to the doctor today. I have to fast from midnight to have a blood test tomorrow morning.

And this is what they will be looking for :

FBE&ESR; U,E&Creat; LFT; TSH (T3 & T4 if indicated); Fasting Cholesterol, Trigs, LDL’s & HDL’s; Fasting Sugar

More news on Wednesday.

Here we go – for all east coast Australian Canuck fans, a Canuck schedule for 2004-2005
that you can import directly to Outlook. All games, local times.

For others it may act as a good guide to when I won’t be able to be contacted.

If anyone from outside of Australia is interested I can probably do one for your time zone too.

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Daniel’s meme this week is the front door.

If anyone has any doubts as to who wears the handyman pants in this house here’s a little tale.

On a quick trip in to the South Melbourne Market this morning searching for coasters for the new coffee table we spotted a kids easel. Phee scored a set of paints for being such a help with Tom last weekend so her eyes lit up.

“I could be an artist!” she said making a huge paint slashing motion. $10 of her savings later and she had the easel.

Back home I put the easel together while Rae made breakfast. Chuffed with my handy work I put it out the back and after brekky sent Phee outside.

“Oh wow, thanks mum!” came the cry.

After two days sleeping the only bits of me hurting are my throat and nose. I’m declaring myself fit enough to go and see my Tiges get thrashed by the Saints this afternoon. To add insult to injury my mum is coming down from Shepp. Even though she is sitting with friends almost directly opposite our seats I’m sure I’ll be able to see the glow of smugness.

Oh, and after two years of hunting we finally have a coffee table. Not ‘the’ table, but a perfectly suitable one nonetheless.

Well, I am sick.

Ended up at the local doctor this afternoon which was odd ’cause I’m accustomed to the one at work. I have no idea what this GP crisis thing is; I called and ten minutes later I was coughing deeply while a nicely warmed stethoscope was pressed in to my back. (For our English readers, hi Nigel, you don’t have to register with one doctor – if you can get in you can see any doctor of your choosing)

Apart from being sick I also have high blood pressure. I’ve been trying to avoid facing up this for a little while but the doc told me 170/110 was indeed bad and that I have to see him, or my regular GP at work, within 5 days to start on getting it down. My BP also means I’m not allowed to take any cold or flu medicine.

After dad’s recent scare all my excuses have melted away and it’s off to the doctor I will go like a good little boy.

Now excuse me, I have an appointment with the couch, a pillow, a rug and Close Encounters of The Third Kind that I really have to keep.

It’s almost midnight, way past my bedtime on a week night and I can’t sleep even though I feel like death warmed up.

I feel terrible, this cold has kicked in and when I lie down I can’t breathe – it feels like there’s an elephant sitting on my chest. My head is spinning and every muscle I possess is aching.

Blergh.

I wonder if my elephant is any relation to those Rae talks about in her sleep.

I also wonder if Vicks will take care of my nocturnal pachyderm?

Two days get the sports geek in me going each year – the day the AFL fixture is released and the day the NHL schedule is released.

And tomorrow is one of the days.

Even though there may not be a hockey season this year the NHL is releasing it’s 2004/2005 schedule tomorrow. This means I’m going to busy tomorrow night – it takes a bit of typing to get all 80 games in.

(I do know that you can download the NHL schedules for your team, but this involves fiddling around with time zones in Outlook and everyone knows that just ends in tears.)