Entei-rah's LiveJournal

Happy Birthday today to loganberrybunny and I hope you have a great day.

Hopefully your parcel/card will make it there safely today too!

(Addendum: Also had a text from Bungle who asked me to pass on birthday regards :3)

Thanks everyone for the kind words on the post the other day. The speed of events did come as quite a shock to us, but the support from everyone these past few weeks has been amazing. There's still the one more difficult day to come this Friday, but I'm hoping that'll go okay!

Also I'm a little belated with this as I didn't get back to Manchester until Monday, and then I was out all of Tuesday night. But many thanks to both eliki and loganberrybunny who's parcels made it safe and sound in the post for my birthday on Tuesday (always a bit of a risky one when there's a bank holiday involved). What was said in the attached letters in particular was very much appreciated as ever! *snugs*

Sadly, after things were seeming so promising last week, they're on the other end of the spectrum now. Things were looking up for most of last week and they had said they were looking in to getting him out of there for the weekend...

That all seemed to change rapidly from Thursday. The father had been coughing a lot more for the last week or so as mentioned, and when the family went in on the Thursday evening, he'd been put onto oxygen and general breathing stuff, and apparently he wasn't looking good again (with increasing levels of incoherency).

With the continuing problems and lack of really picking up much after 3 weeks, they finally did a full CAT scan on the Friday. That's when multiple growths were revealed, initially looking to have started at the liver, but apparently already well spread to other parts of the body. Whilst it was possible they could have done biopsies to find out if they're benign or not, the doctor today called the rest of the family in to say any tests now would only serve to prove what they already know. That it's terminal cancer, and fairly well advanced.

Obviously this is not something you can ever really be braced for. Now it's basically just a case of making sure he's comfortable in however much time he may have left, so arrangements are now being made to try and find him a space at one of the local hospices assuming he does at least have that long, as day by day looks bad currently. In the meantime, the hospital ward have basically waved all the restrictions on visiting hours for the family, and said if they can get him space on a private ward in the next few days they will. Problem is, no one really knows how long he has now! >.<

That lovely mog of lovelyness eliki has apparently sent me a nice new box full of soft chips to nest in for the winter. Many thanks, and I will be going into hibernation in it right about now I think! ^.^

This month has been quite a busy one, even by my standards. The main bulk has been taken up unusually by furry cons. I was up to Inverness at the start of the month for a small con, and then I fly out tomorrow for Eurofurence once again, marking my 6th consecutive year there. It's pretty rare I'd hit so many cons in such a short space of time, but I decided to hit as many as possible to redress the balance from CFz this year (cutting spend at the con and dropping sponsorship also freed up some cash to spend elsewhere :3).

As usual of course, I've left way too much to do 'till the last minute. I've got to get out of work early today just to sort out foreign currency and pack my case, mainly as I fly out 7am tomorrow. I swear I'm prepared!

Finally, 10 years since I sortof 'joined' the fandom passed over the weekend. Rather by coincidence timewise, it was marked with the addition of a fourth alt species. Those who've known me for a while (and haven't dropped out of furry subsequently), probably know I've had a mouse and dragoney Ent floating round since way back in 2005, but no core characters since. Over the past few weeks I've been working on adding a bat to the wings (I know I'm here al week) too. That's still only 4 in 10 years, so I'm not quite headed down the road of being one of those furs with a fursona for whoever I'm trying to impress that week, and I'll primarily still be a rabbit like always. ;)

http://www.lapine.org.uk/junk/entbat.png

Right... I should get to work!

In a somewhat surprising turn of things, apparently the parents will be moving house in the next month or so. Despite having lived in Manchester for so long, I still feel quite attached to the old place, and it's certainly a weird feeling to know the home I've grown up in and known for near 28 years soon won't be ours anymore.

This does also mean that, despite saying it would always be the same, if anyone sends any post then the address in County Durham should be considered no longer available for use. Most folks post things to my Manchester place anyway, but it's probably worth mentioning this just in case!

One huge advantage to never deleting my email archive:-

I still have an easily readable archive of my LJ comments from as far back as 2003. Who still remembers Wimborne (huskyteer ) and Shelltune avon_deer)?

I'm glad to say most of these people I still know today. And the really funny thing is despite people frequently pointing to the decline of Livejournal, most of those earliest commenters are all still active on LJ today! :D

Yes, I promise I'll be doing a bit of an update to welcome in 2013 soon, especially now that LJ is actually working again. It's just been a busy few weeks!

It must just be luck with the combination of themes/LJ settings I use, but I can see very little change on any of my pages with this latest *cough* user interface change from LJ. Did they abandon it already? I can't say I'm massively surprised to hear them still clamouring so desperately mind, as they once again attempt to remain relevant in a world where people have largely abandoned them. Myspace is over in the corner there.

At the moment, the only way I even knew anything had changed was because after 10 years they've suddenly decided my password is weak and at risk of compromise, so now insist on telling me every time Semagic logs in! :x

It's been a while since I've had anything to update, but as it's been a very busy few weeks and I'm finally catching a breath, I thought I should post a proper blog entry in here at long last with some of the recent happenings. Apologies as its not perfectly proofread, but if I did that too it'd be another 5 months before an update. :P

( Eurofurence )

( London 2012 )

( Proms in the Park )

And now... well, after a fortnight of fun and games, things are back to the old grind. As before, I'm still on the lookout for new jobs as though the company seems stable it doesn't really feel like it's going anywhere. Though I have long since ditched recruitment agencies as they were just too much of a headache! I'm also keeping an eye on new places to live. As much as I like this flat, it's not great in the winter due to its lack of central heating and predisposition to damp, so I'm looking to move on. Possibly not even in Manchester, but I will keep you all posted.