Hotel Calvary...

Hotel Calvary

I must say I have never stayed in Calvary, how exciting. I reckon I should become a critic on hospital stays!

Clearly my temperature hasn't dropped. Thought about doing the Blankets on the Move appeal outside stay with Lew tonight, I am sure a night under the stars would bring my temperature down... Don't you feel for the homeless, especially in winter? An entirely different world again, and one I have had some exposure to through Common Ground. Good on ya Lew, and to all those supporting this year's Blankets on the Move initiative.

Today was a full medical day for me. A day of doctors, blood tests, x-rays, and essentially a sickie day. Tonight is intravenous antibiotics, and time to rest.

Radiation treatments go on, and basically any plans apart from my treatments can simply go out the window in a matter of moments.

Michael A (fish and chips), who I have had to cancel my planned catch ups 3 times because of not being well enough, finally connected this afternoon in hospital.  Michael, you are an inspiration!! The pain and disappointments you have gone through throughout your cancer journey, and your magic smile, is truly inspirational. Being sick has so many benefits - I am being inspired on a daily basis.

Hopefully I'll be out of hospital tomorrow. We had some social stuff lined up this weekend, but somehow I reckon it will be a very, very quiet weekend for me. Sylv may need a date?

Today I received a really excellent email from David Smith (SA Life) to give me a few laughs...I thought I would share the jokes with you...I hope you like them.

Tanja, my PA and a qualified journo, has jumped to my rescue and is mopping up behind me with my blogs. She has worked out how to add pics so we are stepping things up a bit. Getting real professional! Keep the spelling and grammar scores going though, any corrections will be later the following day - I still want to know how I'm tracking!!

That's it folks, read on for a few laughs...

...If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's the scientist who once said: "I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates."

His mind sees things differently than most of us.

Here are some of his gems:
1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.

3 - Half the people you know are below average.

4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

8 - If you want the rainbow, you have got to put up with the rain.

9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.

10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ...... But she left me before we met.

12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?

13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?

14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.

19 - I intend to live forever... So far, so good.

20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."

24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name.

25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.

33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.

34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

And the all time favourite:

35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?