Aside from being ill in Europe – there was time for a suitable amount of jolly fun.
Novell Zurich has a pool car – as you can see it’s ex-CTP – so it’s done a few miles.
Alan is a bit of a performance car man; while I’ve always wanted to drive a car that’s physically smaller than myself. I figured the result would be like the Shriners mini clown car.
I was in Europe most of last week – visiting customers and having meetings in Bracknell, Duesseldorf, Zuerich and Stuttgart.
On Wednesday morning I woke up with a fever and felt really achy – I put this down to jetlag. I noticed that breathing was difficult and my side hurt like hell.
On Friday I flew back to the UK after meetings with a partner in Stuttgart; I was in pain before the flight; during the flight I slept, in pain and in a daze; when I got off the plane I felt like I was drowning and about to die. I got my rental car and drove to Nottingham where I went to the NHS walk-in clinic.
I was immediately seen and referred as an emergency to Queens Medical Center; I went to casualty (ER) and was admitted.
Turns out I had fluid and blood on my lungs; a partial collapsed lung; bacteria in my blood and atypical pneumonia. I was on intravenous antibiotics and was kept in for treatment.
I’m out now – but on a vast amount of antibiotics and painkillers.
The best part – it didn’t cost a penny. When the National Health Service works – it works very well.
I’m not counting but…. one of six so far
I went out late with Alan and got the night bus back.
It’s amazing how alive London feels at 4am – the sun is starting to rise; the sky is lightening; people are still on the streets – either returning home or heading to work.
The one thing that struck me that was different from home in Utah was the ‘dawn chorus’ – just so many birds singing and contending for their own piece of space. There are certainly many birds at home; but they just don’t seem to sing their hearts out when the sun comes up.
That’s enough from early-morning London..
My GroupWise client on the Novell Linux Desktop sometimes hangs – so I made a dirty little script to kill it. (Should be two lines of text in total for the script)
#!/bin/sh
ps ax|grep [b]in/groupwise|grep -v .sh|xargs –max-args=1|sed 1q|xargs kill -9
Paste this into a text file – say gwkill.sh; make it executable chmod +x gwkill.sh; maybe make a launcher shortcut on your toolbar.
Did this work for you?
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