This makes me happy.

[mckitterick]

Click the image to see the xkcd site.

Remember how excited or happy you felt when you learned something awesome for the first time? Sharing that with others is almost as fun, whereas mocking them for missing a cultural reference or cool fact isn't fun for anyone.

Speaking of not-fun, went to see the doctor yesterday. You know how I had a big fever last Thursday and felt better on Friday? Well, apparently all that was just the prelude to sinus infection - as of yesterday, I hadn't been able to get to sleep in less than two hours for days. I won't get into details, but let's just say the throat's been killing me and there's a constant tickle in the throat. Oh, and I lost my voice on Saturday night. Awesome.

When I called to make the appointment, the nurse asked, "What makes you think it's a sinus infection?"

"I'm getting a lot of blood drainage."

"Ah, yes. They're very popular right now."

The doc wrote me a 'scrip for Amoxicillin - my first antibiotics since the turn of the millennium. Not excited about that, because my last party with antibiotics (for blood poisoning - long story) ended with having to fight thrush for weeks. UGH. On the up-side, I'm already feeling better today, and it only took about half an hour of coughing my lungs out to fall asleep last night.

Chris

Comments

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

ALL of them? I've discovered that more than about six in one sitting leads to... shall we say, unnecessary amounts of fiber intake....

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

I had such a varied diet when I was a kid that NOTHING ever bothered me. I could eat a whole jar of picked okra, all the fruit I wanted, munch my way through a whole bag of chips, any of it (NOT ALL IN THE SAME DAY, OF COURSE). No problems with digestion, and I was skinny as a rail.
Till I hit about 35. Then it all caught up to me like a locomotive hitting a mountain.
I suspect if I was running around the way I did then and gorging on fruit, I'd probably STILL be skinny as a rail! ;)

Unfortunately, the last time I tried to do a somersault on a jungle gym bar, I was forcibly reminded that they are built for kids, not adults!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean!

And YIKES - somersault on a jungle gym bar? I recently did my first handstands since I was a teen (that would be the 1980s!), but couldn't imagine going not only upside-down on a jungle gym, but SOMERSAULTING across one. Whoah.

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

Not a somersault on top of it-guess that could be misread!

This one was sort of like a stack of open cubes built of pipes. The cubes were about 24" square, so as a child, it was easy to do a flip on/around one bar (like doing a flip on uneven parallel bars), and not hit my head. As an adult, well, I had a lovely bruise!

I was a monkey when I was a child-always up a tree, on the jungle gym, the slides the swings, climbing up in my grandparent's barn....