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    <title>My Blog</title>
    <link>http://people.tribe.net/743af4a6-8529-4756-aba4-859bd6216bb8/blog</link>
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      <title>Men at work</title>
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										&lt;div&gt;I keep getting chatted up. I've been flirting with these various women and nothing apparently happened but all of a sudden its come on top and they're on me. This nice West Indian woman I really like and this volunteer policewoman wsho seems well into me too. She is funny to flirt with bigtime.&#xD;
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I had sex with my girlfriend for six hours last night and she was well happy, I gave her multiple orgasm I think I've just bunked off - I was only supposed to be gone an hour or two but I've been away for six houra just seiging people on this online game - http://the-reincarnation.com&#xD;
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I'm NyukNyukNyuk on the blitz server but if I get on with my girlie chances are I won't be active and I'll die.&#xD;
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I love it when my girlfriend and I get on well, it's paradise. It doesn't happen too often.&#xD;
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Here's the latest picture of my modern art sculpture.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:34:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>JollyPaddlingPoolParty</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-21T02:34:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Is this joke funny?</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/743af4a6-8529-4756-aba4-859bd6216bb8/blog/50fd8721-48b7-4411-b205-6c39a1bf0206</link>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;There's an English Witch, an Irish Witch and a Scots Witch, all on a road trip in Mexico. They end up playing high stakes strip poker with the Mexican army. All in a fix the English Witch says "Rummy!", and the Mexicans look at their cards long enough for her to escape with her witchly virtue intact. Following her lead the Scots Witch shouts "Bingo!" and just about makes it out the door before the Mexicans realise they're all playing poker. All on the back foot now the Mexican Army is glaring over their cards, full house's mainly, at the Irish Witch. So, the Irish witch shouts "House!" Then a full house falls on her head taking out several regiments of the Mexicans and delivering they and her to a sticky end. She laughs like an Irish banshee madwoman possessed knowing that any time soon Dorthy and friends will be along to lift said house off her witchly skull.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:35:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>JollyPaddlingPoolParty</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-19T05:35:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Hello!</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/743af4a6-8529-4756-aba4-859bd6216bb8/blog/21c6d872-d0d1-457f-8648-a3ff8bfdec45</link>
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										&lt;div&gt;Just to let you know that I'm alive and reasonably well.&#xD;
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I'm not really interacting with my ex in any significant way. Last weekend I went to a free festival, Strawberry Fair, met some people from another town (from last year) and met more people from up North. As well as took a guy who was kind to me in prison (someone else took me last year, it's karma).&#xD;
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I've got a cateract operation coming up, which should clear up my vision a bit, it's declining right now.&#xD;
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I'm moving further and further away from alcohol. I still dip in, like at the festival, but it's getting less frequent. I have the medical assessment for a "home detox" next week.&#xD;
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So, I'm alive basically - Hello!&#xD;
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I'm not on tribe much and my "real blog" has also been inactive. Mostly I just mess about on Windows games, hardly smoking and not drinking hardly at all.&#xD;
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Having said that I'm off for a beer presently, going clothes shopping and grabbing a beer by the river.&#xD;
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Still building my sculpture and planning on some philosophy work, etc., while I do this damned detox. A bit worried I'll lapse since it's Summer, I've got a free bus pass and I love vacations. An ideal situation would see my cateract operation fall somewhere in my detox so I was in hospital for part of the time anyway. I might get lucky like that, who knows?&#xD;
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Regards, take care.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:26:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>JollyPaddlingPoolParty</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-14T13:26:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Website back online</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/743af4a6-8529-4756-aba4-859bd6216bb8/blog/fd0364ed-c53a-4f21-b44c-f7d514d5a4f7</link>
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										&lt;div&gt;Aside from the links and support directories, I think I've finished uploading my large poetry, literature, philosophy and insanity website.&#xD;
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This is the main uri - http://www.mageworld.co.uk&#xD;
the part I'm really talking about is @ http://www.mageworld.co.uk/mageworld/&#xD;
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I'm about to try to figure out how to work this digital camera I was given and hopefully I can take some pictures of the sculpture I built for my front room and upload them later. I really want to share this crazy sculpture. It's a work in progress but as it is now is worth sharing I think.&#xD;
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I've fallen off the wagon alcohol wise but have a proper detox organised for early June and I'm detoxing off diazepam and citralopam right now. I feel like I'm full of energy. My alcohol consumption is way down to "normal English blokey levels" but it's far from perfect.&#xD;
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I feel very happy and enthusiastic right now, I think it's a cocktail of "job satisfaction" (a rare commodity on welfare, get it while it's hot), alcohol and general lust for life.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 12:21:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>JollyPaddlingPoolParty</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-05-10T12:21:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Got to stop drunk posting</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Rebounded back into alcohol and my ex briefly, the drunken posts were truly awful and the experience with the ex was even worse.&#xD;
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Went for alcohol counselling today and after a brief fall am back sober again for several days. Am generally on an upward spiral as regards the drinking.&#xD;
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Really self-conscious about my world right now, and somewhat fragile, so am not online much atm, plus I'm metered at home so I try to keep it minimal. My parents' pay broadband unmetered and I'm visiting and binging tonight. &lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 19:59:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>JollyPaddlingPoolParty</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-05-06T19:59:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Off the alcohol, off the ex</title>
      <link>http://people.tribe.net/743af4a6-8529-4756-aba4-859bd6216bb8/blog/112fd029-0f64-4c0e-98dd-2b1d0c8ccf56</link>
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										&lt;div&gt;I won't be riding that particular rocking horse again. I've been 11 days off the ex and eight off the alcohol, yes, I'm counting.&#xD;
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This post is just to let people know I'm alive, sober, unharmed and free.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:17:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>JollyPaddlingPoolParty</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-04-09T07:17:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Out the loop</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;I'm staying at my girlfriend's at the moment, it's back on again. Things are going quite well at the moment. I only use the net an hour or so a day to do my magewars game. If you want to chat regular your best bet is to create a mage on the guild server and become my ally. My net access might improve or it might not.&#xD;
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http://www.the-reincarnation.com/&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:08:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>JollyPaddlingPoolParty</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-03-01T14:08:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Mage Wars</title>
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										&lt;div&gt;The trouble with angels, unicorns and iron golems.&#xD;
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Sick of being assailed by the hordes of the holy my black robe decided to pillage and buy units instead of summoning them. Undead have real problems with angels, they can be beaten but only really on offence I find (there is a nether spell called blood curse which negates their healing ability completely http://wiki.the-reincarnation.org/index.php/Blood_Curse )&#xD;
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I thus have:&#xD;
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Unit 	Cost 	Upkeep 	Number 	Power&#xD;
Angel 	0 	0.00/0.23/0.00 	1243 	12.7% -- weak, but holy and heal, almost never top stack on nether or any other color. Almost suicidal choice of top stack, will die to elementals, djinni, dragons or chimera especially&#xD;
Lich 	0 	0.00/2.50/2.50 	222 	23.7% -- strong and good against dragons, cold damage, weak to holy, strong against melee attack&#xD;
Iron Golem 	0 	0.00/5.00/0.00 	142 	14.9% -- clumsy slow seige engines, resist virtually everything, good damage soakers but weak to lightning&#xD;
Vampire 	0 	0.00/1.25/5.00 	85 	9.2% -- have charm and steal life abilty but very weak, especially to holy attacks&#xD;
Wraith 	0 	0.00/0.15/0.20 	947 	8.0% -- steal life but weak to holy especially&#xD;
Unicorn 	0 	64.00/0.30/0.00 	557 	11.0% -- weak to melee attack but have ranged holy and not expected in a nether stack&#xD;
Hell Hound 	0 	10.00/0.12/0.00 	1081 	9.1% -- great pillagers if used in greater numbers then I have, not very hardy, ranged fire attack&#xD;
Preacher 	0 	4.00/0.02/0.00 	7730 	6.5% -- very weak but heal and resist virtually everything very well, just to make up the numbers for land grabs&#xD;
Pegasus 	0 	3.20/0.02/0.00 	722 	1.5% -- I've disbanded these&#xD;
Imp 	60.00 	2.40/0.02/0.00 	1433 	1.4% -- poison attack flying fodder, very weak&#xD;
Ghoul 	0 	0.00/0.05/0.03 	747 	1.4% -- steal life weak to holy, slow&#xD;
Dark Elf Magician 	360.00 	8.00/0.05/0.00 	201 	0.5% -- won't fight, because I have more than 10 stacks, great ranged unit once I have a lot of them, passive barracks recruit unit, they'll advance up the stacks once I take land and build more barracks&#xD;
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As you can see most of my units are neither devils nor undead - imps, wraiths, vampires, lich and ghouls are, the rest are not, not even the hell hounds (the iron golems are giant clumsy robots with 75% resistence to virtually all forms of attack, but also 75% resistence to all spells I might cast on them)&#xD;
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I am about to cast the following spell, Black Sabbath&#xD;
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http://wiki.the-reincarnation.org/index.php/Black_Sabbath&#xD;
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Apart from incresing my mana income, lowering my population income (a lot) it will increase my Holy resistance for devils and undead. I'm not using that many of those, so it's not so good. I'll also get 666 skeletons and zombies each turn but these units are rubbish and I'll disband them every time I get them.&#xD;
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On the other hand I'm not so vulnerable at the moment, being unicorn, golem and angel heavy, to holy water and holy word.&#xD;
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I'm trying for the best black stacking I can get&#xD;
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Here's my mage description:&#xD;
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Look up a Mage&#xD;
Country 	EcoUnfriendly (#4019)&#xD;
Allies 	&#xD;
Description 	Unaffiliated mage looking for allies and guild. Usual counter rules apply but I don't accept special rules for onlines.&#xD;
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In Memorium&#xD;
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Mage Mordwyn (#3378)&#xD;
Guild&#xD;
Born Jan 02 14:28&#xD;
Died Jan 22 02:50&#xD;
Reason Spell: Death and Decay (gang-bang multi [attacker])&#xD;
Last Words HELP! MUMMY I WANT MY BLANKIE!&#xD;
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Will kill his buddy [alt] soon.&#xD;
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr-Vxu_4ckA&#xD;
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This is my favorite mage. I'll get out of my girlfriend's bed for this mage, be warned!&#xD;
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Status 	DAMAGED&#xD;
Specialty 	NETHER Magic&#xD;
Ranking 	954&#xD;
Power 	4,806,406&#xD;
Total land 	1907 Acres&#xD;
Fortress 	19&#xD;
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I've lost several mages this reset due to being with my ex girlfriend for days on end (we argued again tonight) but from now on I intend to put my mages first.&#xD;
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I also intend to return to my work very soon.&#xD;
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I sorted out the electric company tonight. I will return home fairly soon. I can't believe how much I agree to pay them and it was less than what they wanted!&#xD;
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If anyone wants to play this game as my ally then let me know. I can teach you this reset and next we can be really strong.&#xD;
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I love my weird stacking but those angels up top are a bit weak and could cost me a lot of lands if I don't kill some off, probably in an invasion against another Nether mage like me, with something like wraiths (weakness to attack type holy) up top.&#xD;
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For my defence item I have web of the spiderman [  http://wiki.the-reincarnation.org/index.php/The_Spider%27s_Web ] and Mental Thrash for my defence spell [ http://wiki.the-reincarnation.org/index.php/Mental_Thrash ] Normally I'd like to use kiss of the vampire on the off-chance of gaining more units but most of my units have high nether spell resistence (Golems, Lich and unicorns), healing or vampirism anyway so there's little point in using it (who needs a few imps?). Mental thrash absolutely kills eradication units and can win a battle pretty much on its own - especially if it hits efreeti, chimera or hydra. Web of the spiderman can cost over 20mil gold but I pillaged and found a lot of these and now I'm ready to use them :) They slow all enemy units down by 1 initiative. I'm hoping this item will save my angels from absolute carnage if I can't fix my stacks first.&#xD;
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I want to put angels down in my stacking, I don't know what to put up top though.&#xD;
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the site is here: http://the-reincarnation.com/ &#xD;
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I love this game!&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:49:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>JollyPaddlingPoolParty</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-01-22T21:49:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Another visit to eye hospital</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;I had another visit to the eye hospital, apparently my eyes are okay as things go. I found out I'll have floaters (black dots) forever but basically I'm okay.&#xD;
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I was really really worried but things seem to be okay.&#xD;
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My girlfriend and I had a fight again, I've got 18" scratches down my back right now. I've has them photographed in case she tries to get all legal but I doubt she will.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:18:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2008-01-21T03:18:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Not guilty</title>
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										&lt;div&gt;I just got out of prison with a not guilty verdict. I was in two and a half months but was released one day prior to my actual trial through some sort of weird judicial order (I think). IMHO it should never have gone this far.&#xD;
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If you want to read about it then it's in my main blog, the synopsis, but I'll probably write more on it sometime as I kept diaries through letters to my parents.&#xD;
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Main blog:&#xD;
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http://republicarandom.blogspot.com/2007/11/not-guilty.html&#xD;
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[The picture is a self-portrait I did in prison art class over about two hours. It's not good or anything but it's something tangible I took from there.]&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:25:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2007-11-06T20:25:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Still alive and coding</title>
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										&lt;div&gt;I've been drinking lagers and coding all day. My eyes still work fine, bit patchy but basically seem okay, some eye and headaches though.&#xD;
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Really pleased with the day's coding. I was writing SVG, which means you create images with text in a text editor rather than with paint or a paint package. It produces very low bandwidth images and means no working with a mouse, which I always hated.&#xD;
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The topic is covered here and you can see the svg image too - http://www.web-designer.oneuk.com/svg/svg-shapes-tutorial.html&#xD;
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As usual you can get all your jollypaddlingpoolparty bs here: http://republicarandom.blogspot.com/&#xD;
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ex still on warpath, it's definitely over now.&#xD;
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I've had a good day. I'm very proud of my work today.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:14:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2007-08-03T00:14:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Eye operation</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;I'm posting this from hospital, where they have free internet access. Last November I had my retina detatched. I was born blind in one eye so I was effectively blind for a while.&#xD;
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They put a silicon ball into my eye and welded my retina back into place with lasers, it was detatched for eleven days, 48 hours is normally a watershed so I am very lucky to have the vision I have - it's nothing short of a miracle.&#xD;
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Yesterday they removed the silicon ball so my eye had to be cut open and stitched together, as I type this it has just blurred up (typical) but by and large, even at this very early stage, it's much better and I can work with these hospital VDUs just fine.&#xD;
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I hope to renew old friendships and make new friends, here on tribe and beyond.&#xD;
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I've been depressed a long, long time but this eye injury has taken my mind off all that and I am simply grateful for every bit of vision I have.&#xD;
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I've just ended a six month long relationship that started around the time I was blinded. I've been living with this woman. She won't accept the relationship is over and harasses me all the time. She doesn't seem to understand the more she harasses me the less I like her.&#xD;
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She was fine while I was blind and seldom left the flat but as soon as my self-confidence and my vision started to return she went psycho on me. Attacked me, stole my keys, bus pass and money and all sorts of things like that. She turns up at my flat whenever I go away and causes trouble there and she harasses me all the time with phonecalls.&#xD;
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I think I loved her for a time but now I detest her. She is trying to get people to beat me up and all sorts. All through hospital my biggest worry hasn't been my eye operation but what she is doing at my flat while I'm away.&#xD;
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I was always good to her. I spent almost all my money on electric and food for us - I didn't even go out alone for three months at one stage.&#xD;
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I am really starting to despise her now. She is on a self-destruct and she's trying to drag me down with her.&#xD;
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However, as you can probably understand I'm fairly happy with life in general because I can see fairly well and it's certain to get much better.&#xD;
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I deleted my last account because this crazy ex told me the press were sniffing around me and I fell for it. Also I just couldn't see a damn thing to work with the account anyhow. She didn't like me using the internet either. Anything that was beyond her or her control she hated, including the internet, she was even jealous of the BBC News channel and my favorite soap opera. I'm really glad I'm out of there. I want to get out of this hospital and back to my flat asap, I'm convinced she'll go there to cause trouble while I'm in hospital.&#xD;
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I'm going to be discharged in a couple of hours or so and then I've a couple of bus journeys ahead before I get home. There's wine waiting for me there.. I can't wait to settle in and get comfortable. I hope it's as I left it more or less.&#xD;
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I love looking at women with this new vision. It's fantastic.&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:41:11 GMT</pubDate>
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