Rubber Chicken’s Dojo

friday was spent in pain in hospital as my kidney decided it wanted to play up. after a 2am rush to hospital, i was put on a drip and given some nice pethidine. mm fuzzy…

i had a ct scan later that morning. as a result, the doctor recommends that i have a partial nephrectomy. that would be taking the kidney out. partial because it is not removing the whole system of both kidneys, nodes and stuff. this will be happening this week.

what does it all mean?? well, for one, the trip to korea is off. no work. no inyoung, for a while. i’ve cancelled the ticket and contacted smoe (seoul metropolitan office of education) to let them know i’m not coming. i’ll be interested to see if they kick up a stink. let them, i say. my health comes first. and yeah, i wanna blow a couple thousand of dollars, not to come.

as for my work here. well, it’s gone as well. i finished on friday, when i was in hospital. i didn’t even get to spend the day with my class. but i will be going to school on monday to return my laptop and key. maybe i’ll get to talk to the principal. we’ll see…

the whole situation is a little surreal to me at the moment. i knew it was coming sooner or later. but i did think it wouldn’t happen for a few years. mum rightly noted that it was better to happen now, rather than later when i got to korea. inyoung said she thought it was a sign that i wasn’t supposed to go. i dunno. but now i have no job, no money and i’m about to lose a pound of flesh. shylock must be sniggering to himself somewhere.

i admittedly don’t know much about the subject, nor the photographer. however, this shot is a rare colour shot from 1911! yeah, almost 100 years ago. no touch ups, no shopping.

ex-liverpool player, neil mellor, struck a late equaliser as sheffield wednesday came back to draw away at colchester overnight. in front of just over 6000 fans, the game swayed back and forth in blustery conditions during the first half and only came to life in the second stanza.

five minutes after the restart, andy bond put the hosts in front with a thunderous 25 yarder that flew into the top corner of, owls keeper, nick weaver‘s goal. colchester pressed on but could find another goal.

mellor was brought on and with seven minutes remaining, the move proved decisive. he latched onto a knock back from mark beevers, controlling with his head, then firing home.

the draw puts the owls in 5th spot. hopefully, that will be a place they can improve on as the season progresses.

everything is almost set for the korea move. the interviews, the applications, the dashes into the city to get notary publics, late evening calls to get signatures from a justice of the peace (thanks mr buttner) and frantic running around and a hell of a lot of swearing.

got my visa today. now i can start packing in earnest. still not really sure i’ll fit everything i need in the suitcase. i may need to send another box. i’ll just add that one to the five i’ve already sent.

4 days to go!

sheffield wednesday kicked off their league one campaign on a positive note with a 2 – 0 win over dagenham & redbridge at hillsborough. a crowd of over 23 000 had high hopes as dagenham opened the scoring on wednesday’s behalf thanks to an own goal.

two minutes later, clinton morrison scored his first goal of the season when he smashed home from six yards after a nod-down from chris sedgwick.

after the break, the daggers had a glut of possession but could not get passed keeper, nicky weaver (he’s no lee grant, yet). wednesday’s lack of penetration and creativity is worrying. hopefully someone will take the initiative in that department.

a win is a win!

copied and pasted from the bbc:

Burnley have signed Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Lee Grant on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee.

The 27-year-old, who played under Clarets boss Brian Laws at Hillsborough, had a loan spell at Turf Moor in 2005/06 but played just once.

He started his career at Derby, making 79 appearances and playing for England Under-21s, as well as having a loan spell at Oldham.

He joined the Owls in 2007 on a free transfer and made 145 appearances.

dangit..

If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I’d carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like “Hey, look. He’s carrying a soldering iron!” and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, “That’s right, it’s a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.” Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.

after going out for dinner on wednesday night, i headed to st mary’s catholic church to do some night shooting. i planned on just using my fisheye lens to get close. upon reflection, i could probably have used my normal lens to get a better angle. i found some info on the church on some website:

St Mary’s Church built in 1904 of Helidon sandstone. It is based on a design by F.D.G. Stanley and is virtually the same design asSt Joseph’s Cathedral at Rockhampton.  The Presbytery adjacent was designed by Andrea Stombuco and was completed in 1876.The adjoining grounds contain many other fine buildings including the primary school and former convent.