Done yesterday (20100807 Sa)

[mdlbear]

0807 Sa
  * up 7:45; W=196.4; drugs, nose, teeth; dishes, coffee
  @ John Robbins: The Dark Side of Vitaminwater
  @ Clarkesworld Magazine : Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time
     by Catherynne M. Valente 
  @ Units of textile measurement, Worsted, Microfiber
  @ Omniglot - the guide to languages, alphabets and other writing systems
    Translations of My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages
  @ SFF Chat: Guest Author Danielle Ackley-McPhail on the uses of allusion
    via ysabetwordsmith 
  @ Steampunk wheelchair @feliciaday
  * Walk: ~3.5mi by Los Gatos Creek
    ! vaguely out of sorts; no idea why
  * buy: coffee.  S&B smoked almond & sea salt bar (dessert)
  ~ pick up YD's prescription at Kaiser Santa Clara -> Monday at Campbell
  * buy: pantsu
  * shrimp louie for dinner.  Not well-received.  Not doing that again.
  : Colleen getting some feeling back in her guts.  Yay!
  @ ONLINE ALEXITHYMIA QUESTIONNAIRE
  @ Alexithymia - Wikipedia
  * bath; bed ~00:30; snuggle

Hmm... it felt like a busy day. Oh, right. Walk, shopping, dinner, laundry, dishes, laundry... ok.

Not a bad day, but not especially good, either. I felt vaguely down, dissatisfied, and out of sorts during my walk; it probably bled over into the rest of the day. And although I liked dinner, nobody else did. So that was kind of disappointing, too.

Oh, well. On the good side, Colleen appears to be getting back some feeling in her guts. (Exactly where in her guts would, I suspect, be TMI.) So that's very good, or has the potential to be. This is a year and a quarter after the surgery, mind; I'm not going to hold my breath. But it's hopeful indeed.

Lots of good links under the cut, as usual.

Comments

[montemplar.livejournal.com]

That story about Vitaminwater makes me think that they added Extract of Schroedinger's Cat to the drink, since it can apparently be a health drink and not a health drink simultaneously. :|

The steampunk wheelchair made me think of Doc Brown from "Back To The Future" - when he's too old and infirm to drive either the DeLorean or the loco, that is what he'd travel in! :D

[caprine.livejournal.com]

That steampunk wheelchair is awesome. Also, thanks for the link to "Alexithymia" -- that's a word I needed to learn.

[mdlbear]

Yeah, me too. Also check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaffectation

out of sorts cause possible

[05-silvermaple.livejournal.com]

last week Santa Clara County began spraying to kill mosquitoes because West Nile has been found in local birds.

my nose began to stop up and energy dropped almost right away. i seem to be recovering this week. my only treatment was a corned beef sandwich with lots of horseradish at Max's opera cafe at Stanford.

Hope you feel better soon! good news about Colleen.

Re: out of sorts cause possible

[mdlbear]

My nose has actually been doing pretty well lately -- this seems to be purely psychological. But I suppose there could be a connection.