Missing System of a down at Download
Assisted Suicide and Granddad
Cognitive effects of sleep depravation
Well folks... Dylan is here. Those who don’t know me on Facebook will have missed a very exciting time in my life....most notably enjoying a baby birth whilst in possession of an internet enabled phone. Many people who know me know that I am very open about what’s happening in my life... my own fathers (himself a father of 4 too)comment on my status update about the current diameter of my wife’s cervix was "TMI!", but apart from that every one of the over 400 comments on my various updates was positive and supportive :)
So this is day 3 I think...Dylan was born at 18:24 on Sunday 12th June. We finally left hospital at about 01:00 and I got into bed about 02:00... the little boy was hungry and Liz spent most of the night with him on the sofa feeding.... the good news is last night he fed at 8pm, again at 11, and then at 7am! So, although we took shifts on the sofa, we both got a good few hours to catch up from being awake for 36 hours with only a few cat naps from Friday night through to Sunday.
Back when we found out System of a Down were playing at down load, we knew we were not going to make the gig. I just hope there is online footage :) We were hoping he'd be born during their set... but it wasn’t to be.
We watched the Terry Pratchett TV show about Dignitas last night(link to iplayer). Made it through to the end, but I did get upset when I watched poor peter and his wife when he took the final draught. It reminded me of my own grandfather, who died horribly and painfully of cancer, in agony, over about 3 weeks, in 2000. Since my Nana had died in January 2000, he was distraught for something like 6 months and regularly cried and told me he wanted to die too. He hadn't told any of us he was already dying of Prostate / bowel cancer... so he got his wish in the end from mother nature, but the programme made me think what a painless and dignified end he could have had, opposed to the writhing agony and prescribed heroin (dia-morphine) which was his sad demise.
After Lord Sir Terry's programme there was a Paxman debate in the intro of which he asked whether assisted suicide should be legal... Some bishop immediately made me cross, he thought the situation was coercive - but then...so is the church, so I imagine he'd be an expert in spotting coercion.
In my opinion, the debate is not whether or how Assisted Suicide should be legalised, the answer is clear really...the debate should be when it will be legalised, and how will we write good legislation so that the system cannot be abused.
All of the above is my subjective opinion, and frankly I reserve the right to change my mind entirely when I have had more sleep. I have already seen the effects of my cognitive function impairment based on sleep deprivation.
I play a face book game called gardens of time, in which the player plays spot the difference, or spot a list of items from a picture on screen. Speed of spotting gives more points and silver, which can be spent on objects to be placed in a game garden...buying nice things gives you experience and reputation, which in turn unlocks more scenes to play.
I am usually quite quick at it and have progressed through the game, but I tried to play for 10 minutes last night, whilst very tired, and was barely able to find 6 differences in 2 pictures in 5 minutes...usually it takes me 20 seconds max....So I now have firsthand experience in how badly I am effected by lack of sleep...
Similarly I was trying to cook dinner for the kids last night and had a meltdown because I couldn’t find anything in the freezer potatoey to give them as their carbs... I freaked back and forth between freezers looking, and eventually my mother-in-law went to local Tesco to get me potato waffles and chips...it was only when the dinner was done and I was stacking the dishwasher that my analyst mind pointed out finally that I could have just shoved on some penne, which the kids love and would have cooked quicker too.
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