It’s now been four months to the day that I had my piercing done.

Not a great to remark upon since the last time I posted about it, last week was a little uncomfortable; a bit of encrustation (eugh) that took a few days to fix, but all sorted now.

I did say that I’d leave it until the four month mark before trying to stretch up again, but after last week’s little set back I think I may want to leave it a little longer. The piercing is still quite tight, and I think that the stretch would do some damage and set me back a bit.

Until 5 months then!

This is where I work – that shabby white hut purched atop the roof of another building in the centre.

It seemed to feature quite highly on a program last night about an ex-colleague called Babar Ahmad, called "The New Al-Qaeda". It was complete with reconstructions of Babar and my boss – fairly poor ones though.

It was rather full of hyperbole – Babar really didn’t work with "powerful" computers, unless you count a 4 year-old Pentium III desktop as powerful (which it isn’t).

Anyway, a little bit of excitement in the evening.

I’ve entered the BBC’s “Picture of Britain” photography competition.
So, if you do like anything I’ve done, go click on these links and vote :)
www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/arts/apictureofbritain/showrecord?Id=61644
www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/arts/apictureofbritain/showrecord?Id=61666
www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/arts/apictureofbritain/showrecord?Id=61654

Abso-fucking-lutely

(On b3ta.com this afternoon)

Three.
The plus side is that we now have a very nice and much improved kitchen tap that doesn’t dribble everywhere.
Result!

Within an hour of me calling the police yesterday, two absolutely fabulous PCs came over to see me at work and took a statement from me. I felt really guilty – I would have gone and see them, but it transpires that homophobic abuse is taken exceptionally seriously (maybe as it should be these days) so they wanted to send people over.
Anywho, it’s now in the hands of a nice sounding DS and some clever people who are now investigating a case of mailicous communication. Quite how far they’ll get I’m not sure – I guess it does sort of depend on whether the ISP is able to furnish login details of the offending IP address.
More next week I expect…

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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Pope John Paul II dies in Vatican
So, he’s dead at last, and I’m in a bit of a quandry. On the one hand, I’d say that he was pretty much instrumental in the downfall of communism in Poland. His “faith” and that which he imbued in his flock was vital in keeping the Polish national spirit alive during occupation by the Nazis and then by Stalin’s red army and all the oppression that followed in their wake.
On the other hand, his exceptionally conservative beliefs have lead to a pandemic of HIV/AIDS in developing countries (which coincidentally seem to be those that have the highest number of zealous Catholics) which has killed millions. He’s also guilty of antipathy, if not complicity, in the cover up of child abusing priests.
Althogether I find the massive outpouring of grief for him a little distasteful. He was an old and frail man who, to be honest, should have been allowed to die in privacy and dignity rather than being wheeled out to carry out his holy duties. Compare and contrast this to the case of Terri Schiavo.
I can only hope the next one is better, but somehow I doubt it.

I think it’s now been about 48 hours since my piercing. The first night was pretty rough – uncomfortable, and especially painful with the sensation of tearing when your morning stiffie occurs.
Yesterday day was also unpleasant, lots of bleeding (well, enough anyway), last night was much better thanks to the letters P and C – paracetamol and codeine. Today is getting better – it certainly still aches, partly that’s the bruising I suppose, but there’s not as much bleeding.
It does look quite nice though ;)

So, off I went to Into You and had my cock’s frenulum (or frenum for you American readers) pierced.
It was pretty painful. Apparently I yelled “gaaaaaaaaaah! FUCK!” at the top of my voice – louder than Steve has ever heard me before. A guy waiting upstairs for his piercing apparently heard it as well, and called me a wuss…
Once the piercing itself was over that was pretty much it. Walking has been a bit difficult and it aches a bit but nothing dramatic. I took the bandage off to go for a piss when I got home and there was a bit of blood.
The day after is supposed to be the worst for pain, so I’ll let you know how that goes. Erk.