12,000 peristaltic paroxysms later...

I stopped hiccuping about 10:30 last night!

My neck is still quite swollen and tender, and I'm actually rather sore from all the hiccuping, but I'm much better today than I was yesterday. The combination of the neck swelling and the hiccups was rather hellish.

Anyone know how many calories hiccuping burns?

Had a number of very weird dreams, some of them apparently Shatterzone-themed. And another one that started as a nightmare, with people peering into the windows of my house, that turned into a lucid dream. I went out and turned all the stalkers into friends, somehow, and they started a Renn Faire across the street. (????)

Some general points about today!

1. Hiccups (milder than on the weekend) started three times today, and were immediately stopped for several hours by the ingestion of a tablespoon of peanutbutter. This traditional remedy did not work on the weekend, but seemed to serve well enough today. They'd start again, sure, but 2 or 3 hours later. Check one up to psychosomatics! (I can hear doc_mystery "tut, tutting" from here!)

2. I don't like Cracked.com, generally, but Micheal Swaim is the least beknighted of the lot. I actually liked this article a fair bit.

3. Read Rule Golden by Damon Knight while on the bus. They don't write SF like that anymore, consarnit.

4. The blah on my neck is not as painful, but seems to have spread around my scalp a fair bit. I'll give the antibiotics another day, and see how things are.

5. I walked down to the waterfront with commanderteddog today.

We inspected the People's Glorious Monument to Marbles, Observatories, and Malaria.


Then, we saluted the noble Proletariat's efforts to farm the seas with the People's Aquatic Tractor.