2009/10/29 12:00 Brr! Just as soon as you think that winter's done - there's another southerly blast.
It's been 6 weeks since I had my sleeve finished, and the skin on top of my wrist is still dry and flaky. I think it may be because the skin there is more sun-damaged than the rest of my arm. Of more concern is an old burn scar that has flared right up; it went from 3mm square and flat to about 5-6mm square and noticably raised. It has been going through a cycle of lumpiness, peeling, flattening out and then back to lumpiness about three times now. I guess it will settle down in it's own time, I'll keep on with the bio-oil and see if that helps settle it down.
Something to bear in mind when it comes time to do my right sleeve - that arm is much more sun-damaged than my left, thanks to years of driving in the Australian sun.
2009/10/23 18:51 Woo for the Labour Day long weekend!
When I go back on Tuesday, I'm going to find out about this new position I've been promised at work. The Powers That Be are getting all uptight about water consumption so it's going to be up to me to collate all the data from our reticulation network, as well as going out in the field to install a lot of the new hardware. Sounds interesting, or at least different to what I'm doing now, which has got a bit stale over the last few years. A change is as good as a holiday, or so the adage goes...
I had a dream last night that I bought a new type of soap that could wash my tattoos off. I didn't want to use it but my mum swapped my regular soap with the new one and I ended up washing all the colour and shading out and leaving only outlines of koi skeletons on my arm. Sounds bizzare, but was made more so by the profound sense of loss that I woke up with. The feeling only lasted for a few minutes but affected my mood all day.
2009/10/18 11:17 Done with my sleeve - Vaughan touched up a few bits and pieces last week and now it's complete. It's going to be while before I can start anything new - but what?
2009/10/02 10:09 The schoolwork is all over and done with for now - just the exams in November, then my first 4 papers are all done. Only 18 more to go before I can call myself an engineer!
One odd thing about this course, and I suppose about most education in general, is that the education itself bears very little relationship to the job at the other end. I spent the first half of the year learning calculus and differentiation, the second half learning about the equations relating to water movement in pipes and channels. All of the engineers I have spoken with rarely if ever use the latter, and never use the former. The usual response is: "Oh, we've got computer programs that do all that - I've never used calculus/differentiation/Bernoulli's formula since I was in college."
From what I've seen of the qualified engineers at our work, is that they spend most of their work time doing administrative paperwork, attending meetings, surfing the net, playing office politics and trying hard to get other people to do their job for them. Maybe there should be courses in them as well...
