1. It’s totally awesome.
2. I absolutely love Neil Patrick Harris (even if he has the gay) and I think Barney is such a great character.
3. The open titles. I love the way the photos look like your average group of friends on a regular night out. It helps you relate to the characters and situation and gives the show a sense of realism. It also makes me think of my awesome friends and how much I miss them.
4. In 2030, Future Ted is telling the story to his kids of the events leading up to how he met their mother. I like that he refers to his friends as Uncle Marshall, Aunt Lily, etc, which denotes that even 25 years on they are still as close as they ever were. I hope that when I’m older and have kids that me and my friends are still that awesomely close.
5. It’s still totally awesome.

Oh and also, I have my car now. Yay \o/ Pics to come

Things been going ok. Work’s keeping my occupied and my bike is fixed now and I’ve been doing a fair bit of riding. Been logging all my rides and might start posting them on here. Lost a little bit more weight too and I am getting closer to my preliminary goal of 80kg, yay!

I’ve also decided to take an indefinite break from WoW. The time offline while I’ve been covering most of the on-call over the last month has been rather refreshing and I think it will be good for me to have time to focus on other things. Will miss the social aspect of it, but I think it’s worth it.

I have spent a small fortune on getting some more gear for my camera. It won’t make me insta-pro, but I certainly will have a lot of fun with it.

Here’s a pic I took today. This little fellow has a nest out the back of our unit and struts around the field like he owns the place.

And finally, I am getting my car next weekend. Afta’s folks are taking a few days to drive it up from Sydney and are making a bit of a trip of it. I am super excited

#5 – SUG33

Sugee! It means awesome in Japanese (well, it’s another way of saying sugoi, which means awesome). It fits in with the whole Japanophile thing and ‘awesome’ is one of my buzz words. However, I don’t like the double 3s and to be honest I’d prefer SUGo1, which is unavailable.

#4 – 74RTI

Well Afta does (affectionately) call me Elentar-t-i, so Tar-t-i would be the shortened version. Plus I am a massive tart, but it could be a little trashy.

#3 – HNT41

Hello Kitty & Hentai – what an amusing contrast. They just seem to go so well together Slightly obscure, but I’m cool with that.

#2 BEW85

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#1 – MMP13

This is my absolute favourite that I have come up with so far. I have been in love with the combo for ages. MMMP13 would be better, but I couldn’t get that on Hello Kitty plate. Simply awesome, IMO. Sugoi!

Had a few ideas for this one, which I never got around to doing, however I had a brainwave when I was getting dressed this morning to go to work and here was the end result -

Was pretty happy with how it turned out. I also had a few other pics that I took, which were good, but not as awesome.

Can’t wait to see what next week’s theme is

Back at work today and I have been procrastinating by fiddling around on my Flickr account. This has made me realise that I have posted a lot about my riding but nothing about my other hobby, photography. I figured that here would a good opportunity to show off some of my pictures, which will also make a good filler for my days when I can’t be bothered posting anything.

So to start off, here is a picture I took on the weekend of Molly. She actually belongs to friends of Afta’s folks but she are currently in their care and is pretty much a part of the family. She’s such a gorgeous creature who is so friendly and loving. Although, I think Afta spoils her far too much.

So what is something really awesome about Radiography? One of my favourites is x-raying all the drunks who have hurt themselves doing dumb shit. Even if the injury doesn’t end up being that interesting, the patient’s certainly are. A few of the memorable ones I’ve done include the guy who decided that climbing on to the roof to fetch his football while intoxicated was an great idea and fell off and broke both his arms. Or the guy who was taking a nap in the back of his car when his mate decided to take it for a joy ride, crashed into a tree and he broke his femur (he was so drunk that they had to wait 2 days to take him to theatre to put a nail in it). Or the guy who got hit in the face at the pub by a girl, and spent the night in the ED blubbering about it, while his girlfriend (who was seemingly out of his league) fawned all over him.

But the most recent one I’ve had was last Friday night. At 2 am the doctor-on-call rung me up and apologetically asked me if I could come in to do a hand (I was actually still up and playing WoW, but I didn’t tell him that ) The guy had apparently had gotten into an argument at home and decided to go out on the piss to calm himself down. Clearly it didn’t work too well because he ended up in the ED with a rather swollen looking hand after punching a wall. The whole time I was x-raying him, he was half falling out of his chair, couldn’t keep still and kept saying, ‘I’m sorry I’m so drunk’. It was actually quite adorable and so I just smiled and reassured him that I didn’t mind (secretly I was laughing my arse off, in my head). It turns out, (shown in the images below) that he had dislocated his 4th and 5th metacarpal, which is quite easily fixed – a little bit of local, a good hard tug on it, whack a plaster on and it’s good as new! Despite it not being all too serious, the doctor decided to keep him in over night, just so he could sober up a bit *giggle*.

As you can tell, I take great delight in recalling these stories. The best part is watching the looks on people’s faces when they see some of the x-rays that go with them. As I watched the work experience student cringe every time I brought up a new x-ray, I knew that there was no chance she’d be binge drinking anytime soon!

Today, for instance, we’ve had about 3 patients and it’s already lunchtime. We happen to have a student with us for this week so she gets to do all the examinations. It is great for the practice and experience for her but it means that poor Tari misses out on the excitement. At the moment I have about 80 radiologists reports sitting on my desk that need to be sorted and scanned but if I sit down and do them all at once, I will have nothing to do later. So instead I am doing it little by little in between wasting time on fixing up my blog and prettying up my new Twitter page (I’m going to blame Kez for that one but the truth is that I really am *that* bored).

What I wouldn’t give for a nice multi trauma.*

*Please note: The authour of this blog does not wish this upon anyone, they just happen to be really exciting from a radiography point of view.

Please don’t smite me Karma.