Wednesday 23rd January, 2019

SKP

Posted by at 6:22 pm 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 🙁

Sunday 20th January, 2019

Fnarr fnarr

Posted by at 8:16 pm in Health, or lack thereof, Just for fun.

Friday 18th January, 2019

Rash

Posted by at 4:45 pm 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:

Wednesday 16th January, 2019

Wait here

Posted by at 7:07 pm 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:

Tuesday 15th January, 2019

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

Posted by at 9:25 pm 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.

Saturday 12th January, 2019

Wintalympix2

Posted by at 11:42 am in Health, or lack thereof, Just for fun.

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