Who Is Craig?

My collection of ringpulls from coke cans! I started removing the ringpulls at my cousin’s place, so I knew which can was mine, but then he complained when they ended up all over his floor, so I began to collect them. I stopped drinking coke (mostly :p) so I don’t keep them anymore, but I still have these ones, I’ve had them for years but I don’t want to throw them out!

Let this be a warning to you all! Toblerones are cursed!! They are evil!!

But seriously, they are. At my work there was NEVER a toblerone in the snack machine until six weeks ago.I loved them, so I knew that it was either a sign that good things were about to happen, or it was the universe’s way of saying “Crap’s about to fall on your head so you’re going to need this chocolate to get through it!”. Unfortunately, it was the latter.

The day I had the first toblerone, my Dad went into hospital with a stroke.

A week later I had a second toblerone, and they found the brain tumor.

Then last week I risked another toblerone, and they found a blood clot on my Dad’s left lung.

So now I am staying away from them. Everytime I have one, bad things happen.

Here’s a summary of everything that’s been happening to me and my family lately.

It started about a six weeks ago, Dad was admitted to the hospital because he had a ‘mini-stroke’. It freaked me out at first, because I don’t know much about strokes, only that my grandmother had one and now she is almost catatonic. As it turns out, the stroke had been caused by a brain tumor. When I found that out the stroke went right out the window.

A few weeks went by, and finally they did the brain surgery, to remove the tumor. After the surgery Dad entirely lost all movement on the left side of his body. He started doing physiotherapy, and now he can move his leg slightly, but still can’t move his arm or left side of his face.

Today we had an appointment with the Radiation Oncologist (he does the radiotherapy) and the Medical Oncologist (he does Chemotherapy). They said the radiation + chemo will help ‘control’ the tumor, but its not a cure. It will come back, but at what time we can’t know for sure.

After everything though, my Sister said that she had already spoken to this doctor privately last week (because my brother-in-law used to work at this hospital and knows him) and the Radiotherapist says we are not talking years here. He probably won’t have that long.

Although, I kinda thing doctors are required to be pessimistic. I know my friend told me someone was given months to live and she’s still around five years later, so who knows. We have a lot of waiting and worrying ahead of us

I’d like to respectfully request that all those people who read this and play Spymaster turn off their Twitter updates. The constant spam of Spymaster messages is ruining my enjoyment of Twitter.
Please note that even if you go into Twitter and delete the updates right after they come in, people that use a Twitter client such as TweetDeck will see them regardless.
If it were just from one person it wouldn’t be as annoying, but when you have 10+ people playing Spymaster, the constant updates of ’soandso just assassinated your face’ gets annoying.
Please turn off your Spymaster updates.

This one was random. I just flicked to a random page in the dictionary.

The first thing I notice about this word is the C and the H, which are old buddies from way back. In fact, H is a letter you rarely see alone. Its always hanging out with either C, S, or T. Is it insecure, like the letter E? I don’t think so. It just likes company.

C features heavily in this word, but C takes everything in stride, so it won’t go to its head. C doesn’t mind if its popular or not. C is Cool.

Today’s word of the moment is not random. I wanted to talk about the word Fragment because its an interesting word.

First, and most obviously, it begins with the word Frag, which in the gaming world means to kill your enemy, making them explode into fragments (which is probably where the word comes from).

Another interesting thing about this word is that the letter T is kind of stuck on the end, out of place. Its a tag-along letter, which is odd because usually T is quite prominent in its words. Pronouncing ‘Fragmen’ is very easy, and rolls off the tongue quite nicely, but to say ‘Fragment’ you have to add the extra T on the end, almost like an afterthought. Fragmen-T. And the T at the end is almost like a spitting sound. Its a nice sounding word with a spit at the end.

It also has ‘men’ in there, as if to suggest that men are inherently fragmented. Whether this is true or not, I’ll let you decide :p

RELEASE is another word that I picked randomly from the dictionary. Its interesting in that it is yet another word with a tag-along letter at the end, that doesn’t really need to be there. But this time its E, which is a a letter who is already very popular and well-used. In fact there are two other E’s in this word, so putting a third one on the end is overkill.

It makes me wonder whether E is a bit insecure, and lacking self-confidence. Even though its popular, it might not realise that. That would explain why its trying to get into as many words as possible. The A seems perfectly content with just one showing in this word, because its secure with itself. But E on the other hand, is the opposite.

I swear I just turned to a random page in the dictionary and picked the first word I looked at. Frigid is an adjective that means either cold, or sexually unresponsive.

I always have trouble with the sound of this word. The D at the end seems out of place. A T would be much more suitable. Frigit is much easier for me to say than Frigid. Unfortunately, Frigit is not a word.

Visually, however, its a nice looking word. The two I’s make it seem slightly symetrical -  as well as the ‘g’, which is similar to an upsidedown ‘d’. All the letters in this word are nice ones. The F is a slightly quirky letter, but being the leader of the word makes it a bit more respectible.

The word Frigid reminds me of the Danish miniseries Riget. Frigid is a cold word, and Riget was a very cold show, so it seems kind of appropriate. What’s funny is in actual Danish, the word Riget doesn’t sound anything like Frigit, but it does when I say it

When I do long boring spreadsheets at work, my mind begins to wander. Today I was thinking about the alphabet. I never realised before, but I do have certain feelings towards each letter. There are some I like, and some I don’t. So in thinking about it, I grouped them together based on regular alphabetical order.

ABCDEF
These are the ‘cool kids’ that everyone likes. They popular because they’re nice guys.
My feelings about the letter E changes depending on what word its in. In ‘Leck’ (my username for a lot of things), I like it, because its next to L. But in a word like ‘Hexigon’ I don’t like it, because its near the X.

GHIJK
To be honest I almost forgot to include these ones. They’re pretty average letters.
J is a very surprising letter though. It seems quiet and unassuming but its actually a pretty cool letter once you get to know it.

LMNOP
These are my favourite letters (L is the best). I know that technically they are not the most used letters, but they feel that way to me. Or maybe I should say that they are the letters that I want to use most often. They are very calm and relaxing.

QRSTUV
These are the wierd bunch. RST are well used letters, but QUV are not, however they all hang out together regardless. They are like the wierd people you see in the street, that make you wonder what goes on inside their heads. I wish I knew why RST like to hang out with QUV. They seem like such nice guys…

WXYZ
These ones feel like foreign exchange students. They’re very different and they don’t really fit in with the other letters.
W, in particular, is a letter that I don’t even realise I use. It kind of fades into the background.

LOL, so I sound mad? Its just because there is nothing to think about with my job, I could do most of it in my sleep, so my mind starts to wander and I think about the strangest things.

I don’t think about numbers the same way as I do letters. I like the number 3, but that’s about it.