It’s about time I updated this…
I’m in my 50′s, live in Co Wicklow, and work in Dublin city centre. The name Tinman18 comes from the fact that I have a pacemaker, and from the fact that in 2007 my heart once stopped for 18 seconds which, well, is why I have a pacemaker (you can read the whole thrilling tale by clicking the “The Birth of Tinman” link in the categories section further down on the right). I’m engaged in a long-term prize-fight against Depression. Generally I kick its ass, but occasionally it wins a couple of rounds. At the moment I’m suffering from Derealisation, a condition where I feel like I’m in a bubble and everything seems to be happening a slight distance away. It’s like being permanently drunk, and this is not as much fun as it sounds.
In short (oh, I’m quite short too), I’m a mess.
But on the other hand…
I have a lovely wife (the long-suffering Mrs Tin), and three wonderful teenage Tinkids, I own my own house, I have a job and workfriends that I really like, a local pub that is the source of both companionship and material, and the realisation that on balance I’m well ahead.
The blog title is from GK Chesterton’s saying “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly”.
I think this blog is worth doing, so I’m doing it as badly as I can.
great to meet you tinman and thanks for the comment on my blog. i always find it really interesting to tell interesting stories to people who actually want to listen and to those who actually give a damn.
Well bye for now and just remember your secret is save with me clark.
Tinnitus? 18 bouts of it?
That would explain the ringing in my ears, PCB, which I thought was just Coldplay on my iPod.
By chance I’d decided to write about it today, since I’ve a check-up later this morning, but short version just for you:
Last byear I kept blacking out, so after a load of tests they gacve me a heart monitor, & when they read it they found my heart kept slowing & sometimes stopping altogether – on one occasion when I was asleep it stopped for 18 seconds.
So now I have a pacemaker, hence the tin part.
18 seconds. Did you float above your body looking down shouting “wake the fuck up”
Nah, but there was always a lot of yelling going on in whatever kind of dreamland I was in, which may have been me fighting with myself.
I do remember bursting awake that night & thinking “Jesus, that one was really bad”.
I thought I was the only one with a head full of cotton wool.
I’ve included a link to your blog on mine. I hope that’s ok – if not, let me know and I’ll rectify it as soon as poss.
Thanks and “Keep plugging away!” (That’s often my mantra…)
Of course it’s ok, Saint, thanks.
I’ve read a couple of your posts and I’ll read some more later (I’m at work now), but you take care of yourself too.
(“Deep breath, Keep calm, Carry on!”)
Hello! I’ve been lurking around here after finding your blog while browsing among the “postaday2011″ offerings. I think it was “worth doing badly” that got my attention – and a fine job you’re doing of it. Not that you’re doing badly…unless maybe that’s what you intended to do, in which case you are doing it badly – which maybe was the original point. At any rate, I like reading your posts, even though I never have anything particularly interesting to say afterwards – kind of like now.
Thank you, Patti, and you’re very welcome along. And there’s nothing uninteresting about your comment, it’s very funny.
Thanks for saying so – I’m always glad when people I think are funny think I’m funny – especially when I’m trying to be.
Tinman…interesting how you got your name!
So seriously: I am going to have the tshirt made in your honour! What size?
And if you trust enough for me to have your mailing address, I’ll have the shirt made and send it your way!
Trust me: I don’t have enough money to visit outside of the US, so no worries about me being a stalker or anything.
Just sayin.
email: jdwheeler09@gmail.com
Once you get this message, feel free to delete it from your message board. I didn’t know your email…sorry!
I’m always amazed by people who give such deep thought to their blog name site name. Makes me feel sooooo inadequate!!
The only thing missing from the blog is, of course, how to subscribe. Although I do have some Luddite tendencies and perhaps just do not understand the instructions!
I like your blog. That means you’re not doing it as badly as possible.
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Thanks for visiting from 6WS. Happy Weekend!
Thanks for visiting me too for 6WS:)
Nice to meet you. I caught your name in a recent article on WordPress, and saw it again today on ViV’s [of France] blog. Taking it as a sign, I visited. Between [should be among but it sounds so wrong] the Depression battle, the tinkids, Chesterton, and your general feistiness, I wanted to say hello. Am now off for, I suspect, a lovely laugh, as I wander your blog.
margo
You’re very welcome along, Margo, hope you enjoy it.
I hope you know how I’ve been enjoying our blog ever since I tripped over it in our Blogosphere. I know you’re not a new blogger, but I’ve nominated you for a versatile Blogger’s award – I hope you don’t mind? I just wanted to be sure other new bloggers got the chance to get to know your work. Follow this link, I think: http://thewanderlustgene.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/twice-nominated-how-can-that-be/
Ciao
m
I found your blog because of The Wanderlust Gene’s nomination of you. Can’t wait to follow!