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1116 Tu
  * up 6:45; W=195.6; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee
  @ Body scanners, pat downs prompt traveler backlash - CSMonitor.com
  @ Super Recyclable Laptop Can Be Torn Down in 2 Minutes Without Tools
  * buy: pantsu, visine
  * convert to.do from dos back to unix format.  
  ~ investigate how to.do got dosified.  Probably happened going to barnard
  * 6pm avoiding
  @ National Opt-Out Day: Anti-TSA Protest Has... | Gather 
    Penn & Teller | Federal V.I.P Penn     
    TSA pats down a screaming toddler : The Mommy Files 
    TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old - As luck would have it, girl is daughter of TV
    reporter 
    Flier Who Refused Scan Threatened With $10K Fine - Libertarian says TSA
    tried to stop him from leaving airport 
  * pay phone bills
  @ "Don't Laugh At Me" lyrics - PETER, PAUL AND MARY
  * bed midnightish.  Afrin.  slept well.

1117 We
  * up 6:30; W=195.4; drugs, nose, eye; coffee, dishes
  * order: aggrenox
  * 9:30 call Kaiser re: eye, nose
    -> conjuctivitis; hot compress 10-20m 4-5/day; followed by cold compress
       don't touch eye; wash hands often, especially after handling laundry.
       contageous until 36 hours after starting treatment with eyedrops
       call back if it doesn't go away in 3 days
  @ The ISIS Mobile Wallet: Are Visa, MasterCard and PayPal Under Siege?
  @ The New Myspace Has Arrived: Not a Social Network, but an Entertainment Hub
  : Our new VP of Engineering used to be at Taligent -- knows Joyce and Andy
  x 4:30 Susan -> Tu 11/23 5pm
  & washed my (old) BT headset.  Again.
  * email jenrose@jenrose.com re: concert video
  * pick up eyedrops at Campbell anytime after 2pm;
    ask pharmacist about decongestant, since stimulants don't mix w. BP meds
    sudafed ok if BP under control.  Nothing exists that I haven't tried.
  * order Colleen's balsalazide, triamterine/HCTZ
  * $400 to YD
  @ elf: Wrong fic is wrong.
    When the stars are very, very, very wrong - Cthulhu/My Little Pony fic.  IA!
  @ E.Coli Strain Taught to Solve Sudoku, Entered... | Gather 
  @ YouTube - Have Sex With a Guy With a Mustache Day - see Movember United States - Home 
  ~ WFH afternoon
  * Colleen: humira
  @ blog at izs.me: TSA Success Story
    UCSF letter to Holdren concerning health risks of full body scanner TSA
    screenings 4-6-2010 [pdf]
  @ I Am Detained By The Feds For Not Answering Questions | The Nomad Lawyer
  @ Too Good to Check - NYTimes.com via thnidu 
  @ Super Recyclable Laptop Can Be Torn Down in 2 Minutes Without Tools : TreeHugger
  % awake at 1:30; eye painful and swollen; still can't breathe.
  @ Our Little Chatterboxes: TSA - Sexual Assault 
  @ ACLU: Survey - Report Abuse During Passenger Screening in
    U. S. Airports 
  @ National Opt-Out Day
  % getting up and reading LJ probably not conducive to getting back to sleep.

It's been pretty miserable, actually. My itchy eye was diagnosed (over the phone) as conjunctivitis, and I left work at noon yesterday to get lunch on my way to picking up the prescribed eyedrops. In passing I asked the pharmacist whether there was anything I could take for my nasal congestion that I hadn't already tried. There isn't. She said that sudafed was OK as long as my blood pressure is under control, so I started that. Not in time to keep from passing a thoroughly miserable night breathing through my mouth, and with little demons stabbing my eyelids whenever I turned over too far. :P

The eye was noticably worse this morning, but seems marginally better now. It still hurts. And itches.

I managed to work through Tuesday, and Wednesday morning. The latter was probably a mistake, though I did get to a couple of essential meetings. Good intentions or not, it's hard to work from home on one eye, half a nose, and not a whole lot of sleep.

I was feeling rather guilty about that until Naomi pointed out this afternoon that getting well is my job right now. And I was able to get a little done. And some decluttering at home, an activity that doesn't demand much more brain power than I can muster right now.

Most of today's collection of links are, not surprisingly, about the TSA and their new screening procedures.

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