Alex's even longer post thread.

[Alex]

So today marks thirteen years of marriage. Working for it, but we've been giving each other our presents already lol (although I do have an illustrated copy of The Hobbit to give her later).

I still keep wondering how I ended up with this life. By now I was expecting to be a confirmed bachelor living with an increasing stack of unpainted figures, too many dice and a life that purely consisted of living online.

Other than the bachelor bit, all the rest is right. 

The charge against H has been dropped. Not sure about how I feel about it, but I guess I'll go with its good for the rest of her family and hopefully she's had enough of a scare that she'll never do anything anywhere near as stupid again. Not the first time I've thought she was incredibly naive in many ways and I guess getting into trouble like this comes down to that rather than being a bad person.

Managed to catch the flu for my last four days off. Hit the night after I got home from work and wiped me out. Went to sleep on the fourth day convinced I was phoning in sick the next morning only to wake up feeling fine. If I have to be ill, why the hell couldn't it be on days when I was in work? I lost 3 kilos over those 4 days. Normally when I am ill, I prefer to just power through it and get on with life, but this time I was just wiped out. My skin became hyper sensitive. Wearing clothes felt like I was having a cheese grater rubbed all over my skin. Still had to take Ash up to Aberdeen for an early morning hospital appointment (which meant getting a hotel room over there the night before). I rolled onto my back and you'd have thought I'd lay down on barbed wire while someone dragged me over it.