tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56367002011-05-28T23:23:10.616+10:00This is the journal of an accidental absurdartist, amateur photographer, amateur astronomer, not a bad cook (again, amateur), husband, father, professional nurse and a real life pseudo-intellectual vegetable...Cameron Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16181641789737170656noreply@blogger.comBlogger3031100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636700.post-35407674998913689182007-04-08T06:04:00.000+10:002007-04-08T06:22:37.861+10:00

Well, I have been very remiss at updating this poor old blog haven't I? My apologies to anyone who have been visiting still to see if there was anything happening.Truth be told, life has been happening, as ususal, as it happens to all of us lucky enough to still be around (those who aren't probably wouldn't be reading this, but I keep an open mind to all potential realities)ANYHOW - I have been

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Tonight was the first clear night to be had for quite a while and the smoke haze from all the bushfires was not as evident, probably due to the last couple of days of steady (but hardly enough) rain. I have also finished a stint of nightshift, so was mercifully free for the evening.After an unsuccessful attempt to see this comet from "Skyhigh" at Mt Dandenong last week, we decided to try Ridge

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Here's my first effort (below) at afridge.com, a clever concept created by Joseph Pearson a damn fine fellow...Darn, I had to delete the link window as it opened up on a "parked" page. Joseph must be busy. I forgot to save my poem anywhere else too, but I'm sure it was damn good (ehem...)

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Mungo Time on VimeoI woke before dawn and packed the car, making sure I remembered to grab all of my Polaroid film out of the bar fridge, as I nearly left it behind at Wentworth the previous morning. Driving out towards the "Walls of China" I was careful to travel slowly enough to stop for any wildlife crossing the road and sure enough there were a few Kangaroos out and about. One big old red

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The Walls of China are a feature of the Mungo Lake lunette. Over thousands of years, wind and water have carved spectacular formations comprised of sand and clay. Rain washes away the soft sands and muds of the lunette, creating the rilled ridges and residuals that characterise the Walls of China. The dislodged sand is then picked up by the wind and heaped into huge mobile dunes along the back of

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Road trips. It's a funny thing...making the road trip up the Calder Hwy to Mildura brought back so many memories of my childhood. The place names that go past as the car makes its way north so familiar. The connection is strong. My father was an auditor with a major Australian bank back when country towns still had branches. On school holidays he would request country audits so he could take the

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Hazel Dooney, one of my favourite Australian artists and fellow polaroid & lomo camera user, seen here (at left) with a friend at the opening of her "Venus In Hell" exhibition in Melbourne, has a new blog happening thang here as well as her website hazeldooney.comCheck 'em out!

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Life is very strange. At least I find my life very strange. I have been making plans to go to Mungo National Park soon for a bit of a sabbatical come photo-shoot/sketch trip and refreshing of my creative sensibilities (yes, I know, sounds a bit waffly and arty-farty but I'm hoping for all of the above) Not many people I had talked to seemed to know about it. Of course those who follow science,

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TransitionsOfTransitPlaying around with the latest thang (so I'm led to believe)...video-blogging. Here's a little thing I put together from the lo-res movie capture capabilities my digital camera has. Enjoy...or not. Backing track is a snippet of "Duck Duck Goose" by the late, great Frank Zappa.

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...don't I go to bed when I'm tired? It's stupid really. Is it because I know I have to work tomorrow and want to make the most of what is left of today? Make the most...that's funny. Is sitting in front of the computer straining my eyes really making the most of my day? Don't waste time...don't hesitate to answer emails either, especially if they are from someone nice, someone who means

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Meg - Michelle Goodrich has left us. Many, many people from all over the world knew her through her wonderful site Mandarin Design, more specifically through her blog associated with that site The Meg Blog. She was one of the very first people who contacted me when this blog first started, indeed most of the nifty tricks and layouts here are learnt from Michelle. I cannot adequately express how

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I never really thought of myself as a "birder" but I guess I must be a bit inclined that way. My wife and I often call each other to the window to see some beautiful bird or another and we have been known to walk in the forest with the express view to see a lyrebird or the like and I bought her a bird-watchers journal, we do have reference books for the purpose of identifying birds and we do have

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Above is the top 20 favourite photographs of mine uploaded to flickr in 2005 as chosen by other flickr members. Cheers to Ben, Meg and Amy who noticed I actually came back to write something and thanks to all of you who looked at my images, photoblog, blog, blah, blue, bling, blong, blang, ning, nong nang...OK, I'm on Nightshift, yes again. My tiny tiny mind has gone elsewhere as usual! I hope

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I have tried to post this several times only to find that Blogger has had a problem with mac osx and ecto (the tool I am currently using to blog this entry) when I was on a windows machine I used wBloggar which also experienced quite frequent problems with the API and blogger. I don't blog that often anymore, small wonder...actually I just realised that I haven't made any entries since September,

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It's that ONE DAY in September - Grand Final Day in Australian League Football. Not that my team (Bulldogs) is playing...but hey. It is the West Coast Eagles and the Sydney Swans that are battling it out today. WooHoo. We are heading over to our friends place to watch the match on Telly and have some party pies and beer. I won't be having too much beer because I am on night duty tonight (however

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We had another OD in last night. A socially isolated individual who was really crying for help rather than intentionally trying to top themselves I think. They had even gone to the trouble of packing some bags for the hospital prior to calling the ambulance to tell them they had washed down a few tablets with a generous amount of bourbon. The trouble is, if the balance tips just a little too much

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I have been so low today. Is it the overcast weather? Is it the toothache? Is it because it's the first day off from a rather busy week in E.D. and still having to deal with sick kids at home? Is it that I'm just a whinging depressive angst filled arsehole? I know not. I have been trying to be cheerful, but I think the winter is finally getting to me...On a lighter note I have been having fun

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Well, even though my wife thinks I'm crazy (let's face it, she's probably right) I have invested in another camera, a Yashica Electro GX which is the last generation camera of the Electro 35 line. I must say, it's pretty nice. Now to finish the film I have already popped into it and started exposing, to see what the optics do with the emulsion, so to speak! Thanks to HypnoKitten for her recent

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Damn!I spoke too soon. I took a couple of test shots that seemed to work OK, but now (no matter what the lighting conditions or f-stop setting) the Yashica shows the "slow" lamp glowing and the shutter release behaves as if it was set at "B" Ugh. Oh well. Worse things happen at sea! I might still be able to repair it...maybe. I emailed the "Yashica-Guy" for advice, he sadly tells me I probably

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After reading a thread at lomo.box about this camera in synchronicity with finding a whole boxful of slides taken by my father with this camera at Mum's place I decided to try and track down what actually happened to Dad's old camera. It turns out that my brother David had it, but threw it out as the shutter didn't work properly. Still interested in indulging my nostalgic obsession I found one on

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...lately, but I have been taking lots of photos. Did I mention that I found Dad's old polaroid camera? It's pretty cool, even though it costs $2.50 a print (that's with SX-70 film) I've also been taking photos with the Empire Junior (see post below) but haven't finished the roll yet. Then there's the Lomo cameras (The LC-A, Supersampler and the Fisheye) each with their own unique attributes...In

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I would like to thank Susan Burnstine from outafocus for being such a nice person and fellow camera afficianado - today the Empire Junior she raffled (and I won) on her site arrived by post! Cool! I even managed to load the 120 film (which susan also generously supplied) without busting it. Now to get some black masking tape for the light leaks she warned me about!Stay tuned for some 120 photos

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I hate to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but I suppose I am...I'm just pleased that FILE Magazine has chosen one of my Lomo Supersampler images as it's "Featured File" for the next day or so...after that it goes into the collection along with the other two images of mine they have chosen in the past...OK I'll put my trumpet away now. Thanks to all of my online friends that have encouraged

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Left: Empire Junior Camera (image by Susan B at outafocus) Well, to cap off a lovely sunny day spent with friends and family I arrived home to find an email from a generous photoblogger named Susan B - who recently had a camera raffle on her site outafocus (has some great photos btw) for some toy cameras. If you wish to find out more on Toy Cameras there is a website devoted to them:

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#flickrWords .flickrImg { float: left; } A clever little script to spell words out using random Photography Letters/Images from flikr here's the link - Spell Words with Flikr imagesI think Meg would like this one, if she hasn't discovered it already...

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Tidying up a few things at my parents house yesterday i found a bag full of slide transparencies taken with my Father's Yashica Electro 35 camera (which I think my older brother David still has) on Kodak 35mm Colour Slide Film. For vintage camera buffs, there is a great site describing this particular camera in detail here. As a really cool bonus I found our families "One Step Plus" Polariod Land

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I accidently included the whole post in the title of my last entry. Neither Blogger or Ecto (the blogging tool I use on my mac) even recognises the post so I cannot retrieve it or edit it...weird, posting this entry deleted it so I shall repost it again, even though it's not that interesting or amazing...

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I got a new Photography Toy today! The UPS man drove up in his van this afternoon. "What has daddy ordered on the web now?" wondered my wife aloud to our youngest. All the way from Vienna (Oh...Vienna!) packaged in a groovy hard plastic case, my very first Lomo camera, a SuperSampler (as mentioned in my previous post) It will be a little while before I can show you any examples of the photographs

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Do you like Photography? I do. I find it relaxing to capture slices of time and space at a perfect moment, freezing the ever moving now. I'm not sure why I'm talking about this at the moment...I suppose I'm just unravelling a bit after a fairly constant night at triage. After years of using an SLR (A Ricoh KR-10) I purchased an Agfa CL-34 and ventured into the world of digital photography. It was

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Technorati has started implementing tag referencing. Now even though I'm not all that sure I know what all this means, I think it has to do with helping people find things relevant to their interests on the web more easily. For example, if I wanted to help direct people interested in my Photography to the appropriate place (ie my photoblog in this case) I would include a "tag" in the link in the

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I really should go to bed but wifeperson has pulled another nightshift and I am a terrible sook and insomniac when she is away at the salt-mine. Speaking of the salt-mine, my last shift involved an elderly lady who had been feeling unwell and put herself to bed for a few days, drinking little and eating even less. A friend who usually talks with her via telephone each day became concerned and

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via The AgeMan survives 'contract' he took out on own lifeIn this bizarre real-life story a man who was too frightened to commit suicide himself in case he "botched" the job, hired two young men to assist, but things didn't quite work out they way they were planned...read more at the link.

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Via Mr. Hassel's Long Underpants via Emergency Doc. This game is apparently attributed to a person who calls themselves Texas Biscuit.Here are the rules:1. Grab the nearest book.2. Open the book to page 123.3. Find the fifth sentence.4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I

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I'm a bit too tired at the moment to have anything itelligent to say. In fact I've been cheating a bit the last two entries and substituting some thumbnail images and descriptive text from notreality and using that as an entry for the daze blog... who said there was no place for redundancy? who said there was no place for redundancy? who said there was no place for redundancy? OK that wasn't even

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(Click on image to see larger photo on my photoblog) ~ Nigel (at left) and Gerard, a couple of really nice guys and regular visitors to our work whilst fulfilling their professional responsibilities as paramedics. Here they can be seen early on a Sunday morning filling in their paperwork for the case they had just brought in, a young man found in an altered conscious state after allegedly

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No doubt I will make spelling mistakes and will not care. I am bleary eyed and really should go to bed but it's 0920HRS and i hate going to bed this early...but my auto-pilot will guide me there soon I'm sure, out of sheer exhaustion. My wife gave me orders to go to bed before she left to drop the children off to school and then go to see her ex-piano teacher for a cuppa, chat and tinkle of the

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The other day shortly into my shift we had a MET call which for the uninitiated into the TMBA (Too Many Bloody Acronyms) world of emergency health care stands for Medical Emergency Team. One of the senior doctors and I went to the ward that called the MET and found the patient, surrounded by nurses and doctors and equipment of varying degrees of usefulness.Harry (the ED doc) examined the poor

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...via Brandon Stone's post at blog.photoblogs.org, The Thought Project by Simon Hoegsberg is a fascinating online gallery come social experiment in photography and humanity."Over a period of 3 months I stopped 150 strangers on the street and asked them what they where thinking about the second before I stopped them. Using a mic and a dictaphone I recorded what they told me, then took a picture

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Awake for another Early shift...Must wake up...finding it hard however as I am strangely lethargic from very strange and disturbing dreams (the kind you remember as being strange and wearying, but can't remember the exact details) The stats for the New Years Day shift previously reported on - 140 patients through the department., not bad considering we only have about 20 cubicles that are

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Well, let's turn our focus here away from the humanitarian crisis occurring after the Tsunami in the Indian Ocean for a while and talk about something else for a bit.Emergency Department - New Year's Day 2005 report:The waiting room held approximately 1.5 x more people than the cubicles available for most of the shift. Of the cubicles available, many were not moving (ie the patients in them were

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The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami If anyone appreciates fine art photography FILE magazine and photographer Marshall Sokoloff are donating the proceedings of the sale of prints to the American Red Cross Appeal for the Tsunami Appeal.

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The events of Sunday and what is unfolding afterwards in Asia have left me nearly speechless. Here are some links for those that can help in some way for aid in the earthquake and tsunami disaster.CARE Australia appeal CARERed CrossSave the ChildrenUNICEFCommunity Aid AbroadRemember that all donations are tax deductible.

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May you all have a wonderful holiday season and a healthy, happy and loving New Year! Live long and prosper.

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where we are...Merry Christmas everyone, have a happy, safe and loving time if you can. I am too tired to say anymore. Stay well and I will try and post something before New Year. Thanks to all who wished my daughter well with her broken clavicle, it was much appreciated, she is doing very well now.

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Isn't it funny how (when you are on holidays) you can soooo easily forget how shift-work can make you feel like a burnt out wreck at a certain time in the morning (inbetween the alarm waking you and you having your first or perhaps second caffeine hit) Oh I do sometimes wonder why I didn't choose a life of 9 to 5, especially when I work a late-early shift combination! Thanks to meg and Gary for

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Our littlest one fell out of bed the other night with a rather louder thump than usual, she was quite for a few seconds and then stated that she had "hurt herself" - the poor poppet, normally very stoic in the face of injury, was pale and shaken. We checked her over to ensure there was no major or obvious problems/deformities etc. and she fell asleep in our bed after being given some paracetamol

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I'm not sure what is going on...last night I did a "double shift" in E.D. as they were short one R.N. and couldn't replace them, so I was at work from 13:00 HRS to 07:15 HRS this morning...needless to say I'm a bit more woolly-headed than normal. To add to my confusion I don't seem to be able to access the photoblog (notReality) The firefox browser, normally as speedy as anything is taking

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Well, I was certainly a bit upset last night, eh? I don't know - sometimes family and emotions and history can get a bit strange. I still love my eldest brother, but have no idea at all about how he feels about me but that is not really the point is it. He lives his life, I live mine...and we are who we are and are defined by what we do and not what we say blah, blah and all that pseudo

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has lost the plot I think. He used to have a mildly entertaining website, but he's gone and trashed it on a whim. Just like he did with his relationship with half of his family. Like Dad married my Mother after his first wife died and had my sister and I (not in that order) just to upset his private fucking universe. Like our father died from cancer at 62 and it only affected him...oh, I don't

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Once again the nice folks at FILE Magazine have been good enough to include another one of my photographs "Distortion" in their collection.In other breaking news, Jordan asked in a comment on Quarter past one am, if I could share my experiences with making my own RSS feed...no problems buddy! I have just done that here: Roll Your Own RSS Feed (for photoblogs) ~ read 'em and weep!That's all for

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This article regarding proposed bans on photography in the New York subway system in the Gothamist a website about New York City and everything that happens in it, got me thinking. If these kind of infringements on photographers rights can occur there, then why not here?I felt, as a concerned member of the world photographic community that I should do something, so I gave my feedback to the

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so why aren't I in bed yet? I just finished watching the Japanese version of "Ring" (or The Ring) and I must admit I thought the remake with Naomi Watts was actually creepier and far more atmospheric...if you like that sort of thing. A few people told me the original version was way spookier, but I just can't see it.The old photoblog hit the 100th photo the other day, thanks to all those who have

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Cape Liptrap is situated to the south-east of Melbourne, Victoria and is a narrow penninsula to the west of the larger Wilson's Promontory. The local scenery is beautiful, the weather conditions changeable and often quite wild. It consists of rugged coastal geological formations with some sandy beaches. The pennisula itself is formed by the spine of the Hoddle Range running out to sea. It has the

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I would just like to take this moment to send a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our good friend meg over at mandarin designHappy Birthday Michelle!

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(This post is actually a week old, because I kept getting timed out when trying to publish it..ah well)....is what they say about our town. It proved it the other day when in the space of 2 hours I saw bright sunshine and blue sky, followed by rapidly advancing dark (lowering) clouds, then rain, then drizzle then clear again for about ten minutes with a cool breeze, then very windy and finally

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I finally managed to capture the little bird that has been eluding me on camera today. I first saw it in one of our apricot trees early this morning (left) and then later on in the ferns drinking from our fuscia blossoms. Here is some information about this bird:Eastern Spinebill ~ Acanthorhynchus tenuirostrisThe Eastern Spinebill is a common honeyeater in Mountain Ash forests, feeding in the

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I woke up this morning to the lovely call of the Grey Shrike Thrush looking out the window it was sitting on the handrail of our balustrades, so cute. I managed to snap a quick photo of him before he flew away - you can hear some of the Grey Shrike-thrush bird calls by clicking on the birds name in this post...I hope everyone is having a pleasant week so far. The sun came out for part of the day

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Jane is playing the piano as I sit at the computer. Beth and Paul had the girls for the night so we went to the movies and saw "Hero" ~ lovely cinematography, slightly silly story at times but mostly quite enjoyable on the big screen.And now as a special GUEST BLogger - my beautiful wife!I hope the sun comes out!!! Sick of this rain, drip, drip, drip. Rode the horse the other week. My poor old

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Post anything intelligent, so I'll be VERY LAZY and post a reply to a friend asking about the image referred to in the last post (and a potential Melbourne cup winner) that I made in Renderosity's Photography forum this morning before I went to work...Why do I do it to myself? We had a cup-eve ball last night, a fund raiser for the primary school, and Jane and I stayed out 'til 0130HRS - now

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Well, I was well chuffed today, as the wonderful FILE MAGAZINE an excellent online photography magazine, included one of my photographs in it's collection, and it's featured on their "front page" too, at least for a couple of days, until a new one is uploaded on Wednesday. Thanks to the people at FILE! In other news, we discovered a few bees trying to make a new hive in our chimney. Not wanting

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Stands for Medical Emergency Team. Yesterday we had a MET call to the rehab ward, where a woman had developed sudden abdominal pain accompanied by tachycardia, work of breathing and decreasing O2 Sats (So her pulse rate was fast, her breathing rapid and laboured and her Oxygen levels in her bloodstream were going down). She was feeling crook, no doubt about it. We did an ECG which showed a tachy

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No...really...go see....back to work tomorrow after one dull (weather-wise) day off today. 0700HRS start so I better get to bed...

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I have just had a chat with John, who triaged the fellow with the malfunctioning chakras (see previous entry). To set the record straight, "malfunctioning chakras" was not his presenting problem/complaint; he had actually presented to ED on the insistence of his son, as he had been generally unwell for a few weeks. The patient himself told John he thought his symptoms of general unwellness were

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It seems like all we do is go to birthday parties lately...Grandad Jack's 80th, my nephews 30th, my nieces 5th (hell, I think she's 5...I am hopeless at remembering these things) Whatever...I am officially partied out. Then I go and visit Chapel Perilous via Melissa's blog Butterfly Teeth and get the shit scared out of me...I won't spoil it, but do not go here if you have problems with your heart

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Blogging from work. Hi! how is everybody? It's been busy at the PunkClown ranch, I must catch up with my favourite reads soon. I had better check an make sure everything is ok in the ED...more later!Later ~ and now a thank you to my sponsers *grin*Thank you to Rivi, Meg and Amy who have left nice comments on my lilly images at my photoblog notReality. Thanks also to Jer, Kat and Bryn for letting

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It has been a weekend for parties, both celebratory and political. The right wing have gotten back into power in Australia, which is an unpleasant fact that I am resigned to. I am usually not political in my blog, as there are plenty of pundits out there making their respective points. Opinions are like arseholes, everybody has got one...I still find it hard to accept that a political stance

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Via the wonderful meg blog here is a live-ish (updated every 5 minutes) view of Mt St. Helens, which has been experiencing renewed volcanic activity lately.

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If you have a skyline you wish to share, or if you want to see some cool and groovey skylines from around the world visit the link (ahh... that means click on the headline). This is a project began by Stu Savory and currently operating on both Stu's site and on the skyline viewer I built for it - check it out, landscape lovers!

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HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:1) She does not get PISSED - she gets CHEMICALLY INCONVENIENCED2) She is not a SCREAMER or MOANER - she is VOCALLY APPRECIATIVE.3) She is not EASY - she is HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE.4) She is not DUMB - she is a DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY.5) She has not BEEN AROUND - she is a PREVIOUSLY ENJOYED COMPANION.6) She is not an AIRHEAD - she

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Today is "abdo pain" Moaning Monday with one particularly vociferous case in the corner cubicle thanks very much. The other morning was compound fracture of the greater toe Saturday - facilitated by the swiftly rotating blades of lawn mowers. 2 cases exactly the same except for the foot (one on the left, one on the right foot - the feet in question on two different patients I should add, of

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   An interesting entry from Mike regarding Body Language and specifically body language in relation to chest pain caught my eye today: Chest Pain Body Language. It is well worth looking into if you are involved in fields of Emergency, Cardiac and other health care areas, or if you simply have a healthy interest in these subjects...Thank you Mike.     Emma asked about the Man Ray exhibition at

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Oh..and I went to the Art Gallery yesterday and took in the Man Ray Exhibition (The Impressionists had a queue 1 1/2 hours long) - Meg's Link Opacity Rollover trick works well with the thumbnail I see. Clever lassie that Meg.

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I almost forgot, I put this together for Stu who has started a Skyline View meme on his site. This is basically the view we see (seasonal and weather variations notwithstanding) looking east from our balcony. We're pretty fortunate really. You can see the larger version here And just to show it's not just tree-tops that we get to see, here is a panorama of the view of the local farmland that one

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I was in triage yesterday, and one of our clerks came in from the ambulance bay telling me a woman was very concerned as her husband was "in trouble" and needed helping out of his car. The car was in the car park across the road (not at the patient pick-up point where I thought it was) Legally we are not covered if we go off the hospital grounds to attend a patient, but what are you meant to do,

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Just quickly, because I have to go to work... Stu kindly visited with a belated bloggerversary greeting (thanks Stu) and asked about advice on buying a new telescope for a starting out backyard astronomer. Well Stu, i found this good advice here:So You Wanna Buy a Telescope... Advice for BeginnersIf you have any further questions, I will be glad to answer them, just let me know...but for now I

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The noise in a busy Emergency department is hard to describe ~ for example, the sound of an autistic child (who had fallen and hit his head on some slate tiles, and was in for observation) alternately screaming at the top of his lungs or laughing, depending on his mood (which changed rapidly depending on the stimulus)...now ~ beneath that noise you hear people vomiting (loudly or quietly, you

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Well, I managed to fit in another post ~ inbetween dealing with personal injuries sustained (because I refuse to acnowledge my true age and pretend I'm still as flexible and fit as I used to be), going to work and being a husband/father person and...well, life and stuff I suppose (and lets face it, compared to the unknown factor of the alternative, life is pretty good!) If anyone has a

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Well, after work yesterday I met my family and some friends at the local footy oval, where inbetween the quarters I had a kick to kick with Jezza (one of my our friends boyfriend) On the first kick Jezza sent to me, I misjudged the catch and got the full force of the ball coming down from a high arc onto my tensed extended forearm, causing a hyperextension of my arm at the elbow joint which

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Jana has seen what I have done (or not done as the case really may be, truth be told). Shit, I'd make a really BAD politician, this habit of truth-telling. Any way it's all Jana's fault (what is to follow) ~ I am slacking off at work ~ having first, I should state, attended to my duties of drug-dispensing, sphygmamometering, pathology result retrievaling and various sundry other activities.

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Uhhhh...Cough...ACK...sorry, ummm cough cough COUGH, AhhhhCHOOOO, cough....this is a picture of my nose dripping...sorry that's probably a bit gross isn't it. (and not really true either is it?) Ummmm. Too stuffed upand muzzy headed to say anything much more. Oh yeah, thanks Amy, I will stop taking photographs and go to bed and yes, I am a very bad patient! (Poor Janey)

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The madness of the web allows me to drag up all sorts of crazy detritus from my past and expose it to innocent victims who may accidently enter the wrong url. It seems I can't help myself. ~ I have had these old diaries from my teen years in my possesion, carting them from residence to residence in boxes for a long time now...finally scanning them and arranging them in some sort of navigable

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More sleep deprivation. Two wet beds (not mine) the night so cold you could snap the air with a cough....then at 0500hrs I hear a ruckus in the chicken shed...a fox had claimed 3 of our 4 chickens before I could pull on some boots and stagger up in my half-asleep state. I'm really not that fond of Winter, a lot of things seem to go a bit pear-shaped.Many thanks to dj, who's brother is also an

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Well, it's 07:28HRS on a Saturday Morning and the ED is reasonably sedate. Give it time, give it time...people are still tucked into their cosy beds on this Winter morning. It's once they get up and out and about that they start injuring themselves in the workshop or garden, or begin to get concerned about that niggling pain that has been bothering them for a while now...where else would you want

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Has anyone tried this? (Yes, I know I'm probably the last person on the web to have found this one...) Go to google (not the one on this page as it doesn't have the I'm Feeling Lucky button) ~ Once there type in Weapons of Mass Destruction and hit the I'm Feeling Lucky button. Meg hadn't seen this one, so perhaps I'm not the last person on the web to be told about it.It's a bit sobering however

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...at least in the Southern Hemisphere, but no, I don't feel this means my happiness will be flushed away... As Amy suspected, my moods are affected by seasonal change, so perhaps I am a bit flat due to less sunshine, perhaps I'm just plain tired...maybe I'm hormonal! (Men can be affected by changing hormonal levels you know!) One of my colleagues (Hi Jana Banana!) at work had read my last post

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We went to the Melbourne Museum yesterday. Left is the image of a type of trilobite fossil (at least I think that's what it was...) I am very tired. Lately (by lately I mean the last two weeks or so) the youngest kiddywinkie has been waking every two hours or so and climbing into our bed, thus waking us up. Sleep deprivation is a form of torture I believe. Does it mean I'm a bad father if I call

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...ahh, what it says ~ more revamping to follow! Some of the "previous posts" will not look too good right now due to css formatting conflicts. I will get to that. If you have made comments on previous posts, they are still there in the "old" archived months (down on the right sidebar) The new template has a new commenting system so that will start from today's post. (I'm presuming that some may

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Well, I've been bit of a slacker here haven't I? I have still been putting my photos up on the photoblog-thingy as I have been feeling more visual than literal. Truth be told, I've just been feeling tired, as I have just completed a long run of days, straight after night-duty...my circadian rhythm hasn't readjusted yet) In between I have been dealing with my computer going a bit haywire, which

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This morning, the good-looking one and I took a friend to CloudeHill gardens and nursery. Sprawling over several acres this garden has some wonderful sights to see. Beautifully manicured garden beds, hedges, all kinds of exotic plants and trees, not to mention the many sculptures and pottery placed around the gardens. On the walk we were privileged to see a Lyrebird foraging in the scrub. I

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"Meet at Babble cafe at 7pm look for other bloggers near the entrance" was what the email said...an interesting concept, meeting people you don't really know (except perhaps through some comments left or browsing their internet sites) - certainly I didn't know what anyone else looked like...so I go to the appointed spot at the appointed time, and sort of hang around a bit looking lost...the nice

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FAKE QUIZ ResultsWhen you were a child you were totally irrational and drove your parents up the wall. You still are and still do (well your Mother anyway) You have blue eyes that could stand a chance of being attractive if they didn't clash with the bloodshot glaze they often have from staring at the computer too long. Your feet smell and you should really consider revising your facial hair. You

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Good I hope! Life is still rather hectic, but good, yes...Good. Health and happiness are with me and my loved ones, so I am extremely fortunate. I was also fortunate to have been given another Photo Friday "noteworthy" for their Atmosphere theme, which was very nice (and a bit surprising considering the other excellent images I saw that were entered). That forest sure gives some wonderful photo

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I had to strike quickly...having contemplated the subject matter for a couple of days, but not done anything, I knew time was of the essence when I noticed my wife getting ready to make soup! While she wasn't looking, I grabbed my camera and my prize, my precious, and ran to another room....(read more here)

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of life, just running as fast as I can to catch up with myself...at least I still have time to take the odd photograph here and there! I hope everyone else is keeping sweet! Back soon!Just as an aside - I got this in my SPAMBOX today ~ Subject: **SPAM** projectilevomit On Sale Now, All New Digital Cable Descrambler. What on earth has projectilevomit got to do with Digital Cable Descramblers?? I

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Cool! My second only submission to Photo Friday achieved a "noteworthy mention" for the Morning theme ~ wrapped I am...*grin*Hi all btw, yes, I'm still here...sorry! I'm on one day off in a stretch of quite a few, and playing Mr. Mum whilst the good-looker is at work...hmmm (better check on the rugrats in a mo...)Although apathy is a big problem, it really isn't what has prevented me from

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Aw, thanks for checking in and saying something in the last couple of posts Amy, Bryn and Meg! I'm still in an apathetic state word-wise though...OMG! It just occured to me...could I have used up all my allocated words that were assigned to me at birth? (In which case are these bonus words I'm using now?) Ughh, see? I'm just being silly! I think I'll shut up for a bit...Love to all! P.S. Latest

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...is a big problem, but who cares? Myahahahahaha! Uhhh...ahhhh...mmmm...sorry about that. Well, the Downes referrer linky thingy is down (no pun intended) and scant comments are left so I'm not sure if anyone (including yours truly) is interested in keeping up with the entries here at the moment (I'm sure this will be a fleeting feeling) In the meantime, I will be concentrating on the photoblog

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Ok, just for (questionable) laughs...give this one a try. Here's the last entry in this blog (below) interpreted by The Jar-Jargonizer, but you can run any url through it...Thanks to Jana, my mad work friend for this one...All night Mee-sa was hav'in weird dreams starr'in Qui-Gon Lee Skywalk-a in post apocalyptic saga where he seema to be "walk'in the land" so to speak, with some elements of

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All night I was having weird dreams starring Tommy Lee Jones in a post apocalyptic saga where he seemed to be "walking the land" so to speak, with some elements of Monty Python's Life of Brian thrown in...then the alarm goes BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP...I start awake, swing my legs out of bed and as my feet hit the floor, my right foot steps on something fluffy and an

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