Archive for January 2019

SKP

Posted by on January 23rd 2019 in Health, or lack thereof

Yes, I'm an escapee. Home for a few days of respite while my counts continue their crash and then, hopefully, start their recovery. Have to attend Day Ward for reds/platelets top-ups and monitoring every two days though, so it's more like being out on remand.

That was the good news.

The bad news is that Chris now has to devote even more time to me, pulling in the tasks that the hospital staff would have been doing had I stayed in.

And when my counts have recovered, I'll be an in-patient again for another cycle of the same chemo.

No word yet regarding them finding a suitable stem-cell donor 🙁

Fnarr fnarr

Posted by on January 20th 2019 in Health, or lack thereof, Just for fun

Rash

Posted by on January 18th 2019 in Health, or lack thereof, Just for fun

I developed a rash of red spots this afternoon. To be fair, it's not the sort of thing that's got the doctors perplexed, it should disappear quite soon:

Wait here

Posted by on January 16th 2019 in Health, or lack thereof, Just for fun

As waiting rooms go, this must be the most colourful I've ever seen. It's like sitting in a huge bag of Dolly Mixture:

Observing Report 1st-2nd November 2018 part 1 (Early Christmas Treat)

Posted by on January 15th 2019 in Astrostuff, Observing Reports

I seem to have plenty of time on my hands, so instead of wasting it I've been wading through the backlog of astro-data that I'd been meaning to either process or bin.

Here's the first pic from way back in November last year:

NGC 2264 Area, 2nd November 2018.
Subs: 27 light @ 300s, 50 dark frames, 50 bias frames.
QHY10 on the C80 ED-R Frac, guided with PHD.

There's a lot going on there, so I think I'll be giving it a lot more attention with a bigger scope when I get through the current treatment. There's the Cone Nebula, the Christmas Tree Cluster, the Snowflake Cluster, and the Fox Fur Nebula - see the NGC 2264 Wikipedia page for a what's what and where.

Wintalympix2

Posted by on January 12th 2019 in Health, or lack thereof, Just for fun

Later, we will be commandeering this corridor for the Drip-Stand Curling Finals: