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Yesterday was the first of a series of several upcoming melty days. It remains to be seen how messy that will turn out to be.
There's a foot of packed snow everywhere on the ground, soon it will be running down the hills into the creeks and revealing the inch of ice underneath. It's zippy time walking down the driveway again.
I expect in a day or so, the local creek to be wildly rushing through town, barely under the bridge, and widening across the swamp as it leaves town. I remember times in the '50s and '60s after a particularly heavy winter and quick thaw, when this downtown area would run inches of muddy water across the bridge and main road and threaten to remove the old blacksmith shop on it's south bank across the creek. And somewhere during the 40 years after '66 that I was gone from here, the blacksmith shop did succumb. Now about the only thing left that could suffer from a typical spring overflow will be the public park. From my house here on the north side of the creek I look down into the beginning of the swamp on the west end of town, but this house is situated high enough on the hill that the swamp should never rise that high.
And now for something not completely different: There's still hope for daffodils in February.
...+1.
Would a higher grade flu make you feel bigger?
Non-complaint: For at least next 10 days highs will be 50s & 60s, lows 30s & 40s & sunny. Please don't hate me.
Complaint: Supposed to go back to winter after that & I am sure it will. Last winter weather usually happens Easter or just after here. My late father-in-law called it the "Daffodil & Snow Tire Festival." Also, our power bill is more than twice what it was during similar super-cold snaps last year -- and every customer of our utility is in the same situation. Something fishy is going on. It's even been on the news
Non-complaint: it got up to 45 above zero today. Little dude's shrieks of glee as he puddle jumped were just too pure. Supposed to be similar or better all week for weather. Yes, please.
complaint: It's not yet warm enough to turn on the exterior water and run the sprinkler. Little dude /really/ wants me to run the sprinkler
When you can bust out the sprinklers also means you can bust out the Slip 'N Slide, too! When I was a kid that was so much fun.
The neighbors are wondering why our whole house smells like cookies when the furnace comes on.
Unfortunately with the terrain, trees, and pavement configuration in my yard there really isn't a good run for one of those that wouldn't end in an ER trip.
possibly for the best. He'd likely want me to go down, too, and I've discovered the hard way that I can't pull that sort of stuff off with impunity anymore.
When my son was a teen, we'd sometimes imagine a world where it would be sunny, summer weather but we could play in non melting snow. Closest we got was after we moved to Arkansas and went swimming at the YMCA's indoor pool & could see the snow outside through the full height windows. Unfortunately, the Y closed 2 or 3 years later, so that ended our winter swimming.
When little dude's elder sibling was small (2? 3?) the snow was really deep and it was really cold that year, so I'd lean out the porch and scoop up a mixing bowl of snow for them to play with. They loved it, and bonus, there was no issue of getting them all dressed up in their gear and two minutes outside just to be informed that now they had to pee. Toilet's right down the hall, kiddo... have at.
ROFL - my work here is done.
Any LIE products for Genesis 3 should work on Genesis 8 since they basically use the same UVs, is that correct? But then I wonder why so many Gen 3 products are not labeled as such, they would get a lot more sales. All the ones I own and have tried have worked on Gen 8. Of course I've only tried tattoos, scars, wounds, so I don't know if there are some exceptions I need to look out for.
Not any, necessarily. For whatever reason, most if not all G3 core figures have unique UVs, meaning that an LIE product made for Michael 7, for example, won't line up with the base male UVs. I'm not aware of character-specific LIE products, but it's something to watch for on characters.
Complaint: I'm resigned to my age-related bio-mechanical breakdowns, and I have a list of "...ists" managing them, but have otherwise been able to keep myself free of bacteriological or viral maladies (other than brief reactions to flu vaccines) for several years. But yesterday I had to come to terms with the need to manage a proper cold and sore throat.
Drippy drippy nose for several days and then yesterday the cough started, throat phlegm, and throat tickling pain. That on top of my on-going bloody nose issue, made for an interesting and messy day.
The coughing was persisting into the evening and I was concerned that I would be hacking and nose bleeding all night. So I dug into the netherlands under my bathroom sink and found some Nyquil (liquid, pain relief, anti-histamine, cough suppresant) to help allieviate the symptoms and knock me out for most of the night. It worked! Only woke up once and no coughing or nose issues.
The mini-adventure of exploring the contents of my under-sink area had revealed first a ten year expired bottle of Nyquil with two or three doses left, which I had considered for a moment but immediately threw it out when further exploration in the boxes of bottles revealed a newer, unopened, bottle of Nyquil that had expired just a few months ago. "Close enough" I thought. And indeed it did the trick.
Not sure if I should have combined the ingredients of Nyquil with the shelf of other medications I'm taking, but nothing untoward happened overnight. Overindulgence of anything is never a good thing, so I'm taking half-doses spread far apart. However, I'm dreading that point in a cold when phlegm coagulates and turns to thick green goo and I have to force-blow it from my nose, and I'm sure would reactivate a nacently healing blood vessel in my nose.
On the weather front: Still melty, creek filling up.
I just got an interview at the nearby Food Lion for tomorrow at 11 am. Probably should schedule rides so I won't get there out of breath and mess the interview up.
Correction it is at 10 am.
Fingers crossed for the best outcome for you!
Feeling on the mend, thanks for the wellwishes, much appreciated.
Thanks!
Glad you made it through the flu.
Complaint: Sore throat has abated, but I've reached the stage in my cold where it has turned into thick yellowgreen phlegm being swept from my lungs, (*haaaack, cough, cough, spit*).
It's a good thing I have a plentiful supply of Kleenex tissues, I need one every 10 minutes. My head still feels stuffy & wonky, and it's sometimes hard to catch my breath, but if I sit still I do OK. I hate colds.
Since my throat's, not really sore anymore, I've stopped taking the Nyquil, to stop suppressing my body's natural mechanism of sweeping phlegm from my lungs and irritating my throat further. Now I need to get that green goo outa there. Kleenex is my friend.
I'm positive that I caught this cold from one of my rides on the Ancient Person's bus last week, somebody behind me was hacking and coughing and I thought at the time "Great! I'm gonna get their cold". I hate being right.
People, it's common sense and courtesy to adequately cover your mouth when you have to cough in public.
I was in the hospital once waiting to get a blood test. A moron in the small, nearly empty laboratory waiting room hacked & coughed several times, open mouthed directly into the room. I said something to her, and she argued "her rights". Stupid people. Grrr... We need to stop glorifying and excusing stupidity.
I had the interview but now I wait to hear the results.
My dad would always force a pan of butter, sugar and vinegar down my throat.. a handy expectorant?
Ich bin hier aber ich kann nicht schlafen.