Some general points about today!

[pyat]

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.

Comments

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I knew it! Krispy Kremes are the pinnacle of human civilization!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

They make your teeth hurt!

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

They make my teeth hurt with goodness! n_n

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

1. I've never "tut tutted" in my life! Good luck with eradicating your singultations though.

2. I liked this bit from the essay for the obvious reasons; "We don’t have claws, or tails, or super hearing; we put all our points into INT."

3. I like Damon Knight a great deal for both his SF and his non-SF works. His SF fan-history "The Futurians" is very interesting, readable and insightful. I remember reading it at the Merril Spaced-Out Library when it was at their old digs at UfT about 20 years ago.

4. Scalp rot, eh? Yeah, see your Family MD about this if things don't improve soon.

5. Interesting...um...pictures! That second one could be one of my patients out on a road test!

::B::

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

I'm wagering three hundred Quatloos on shingles colonizing your vagus nerve. We watch the combat with interest!

(more seriously, ugh. Hope you're better soon.)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

"Shingles Colonizing Vagus" happens on a roll of 4670 - 5000 in the Hackmaster "Extended Disease Result" chart.

It's also the name of my Emo band!

[anidada.livejournal.com]

It's SPREADING? Yikes! Hope that doesn't continue. *hugs, from a distance*

[pyat.livejournal.com]

It seems to be settling down this morning. Either that, or the spores have colonized my brain and are telling me what to think!

[dronon.livejournal.com]

I hope whatever's causing this goes away soon and that you feel better! :(

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sir!

[shadow-maze.livejournal.com]

Hope things inprove soon on the heath front...er...back...or whatever!

I suspect that water borne thing is a water weed harvester.

[mejeep.livejournal.com]

re: the sea tractor, it's more like a water weed wacker or lawnmower, cutting the weeds out of the way of the boats' propellers (thus it using sidepaddles that are NOT jammed up so easily). They're entertaining to watch, kinda like the Zamboni cleaning the ice skating rink, or the crew smoothing the baseball diamond.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

This one is actually a trash skimmer, which is similar, but it doesn't cut stuff. Junk just gets picked up by the front conveyor.