Archive for June 30th, 2009

30
Jun '09

Bitten

   Posted by: lyle    in Animals, Domestic, Weather

Great – it’s that time of year where the horseflies come out again, which means I get a couple of viciously nasty bug bites.

I don’t know what the hell is in a horsefly’s bite (injection, whatever) but my body reacts badly to it – not an allergic reaction, anaphylactic shock, or anything like that – but the site of the bite swells significantly. It also itches like an absolute motherfucker, which doesn’t help.

Generally the swelling stays for about 48-72 hours, and there’s nothing I’ve yet found that’ll do anything at all to it – piriton, witch hazel, cold compress, anti-histamines in general, all has no effect whatsoever. It’s incredibly annoying.

At the moment I’ve got two of these bites, which have lasted from Sunday. They should be easing off by now – or at least by the end of today – just in time to get some more this coming weekend, I’m sure.

All told it’s just another reason to get a bit more annoyed by summer.

30
Jun '09

Bugger

   Posted by: lyle    in @Media2009, Geeky, Getting Organised, Memory, Own Business, Work-related

There are times where I’m a real spanner – and it looks like last week was one of those times.

You see, ages back I booked myself for the @Media conference in London. And then forgot about it completely.

And it turns out it was last week – the Thursday and Friday, to be precise.  Which means that last week would’ve been made infinitely more complex than it was, what with the Cambridge interview and the entire travelling to see AC/DC – but it’s still a bummer.

It’s weird too, in that I haven’t heard anything about it this year – nothing I’ve noticed on Twitter or Facebook, and none of the developers and techies I know having gone to it. Compared to a couple of years ago, when I knew loads of people who went, that just seems pretty odd.

It’s a pain to have paid for the ticket and not gone – but well, my company had paid for the ticket rather than me personally (it’s a semantic point in many ways, I know) so it could be worse.