Just a Quick Update

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Not doing a real post today. I went to the doctor. I caught a friend’s cold while recovering from pneumonia. Perhaps in a way it was predictable, with still recovering from pneumonia and then my birthday, Thanksgiving, son’s birthday, etc.

Anyway, went to doctor. Am medicated. Post and squirrel (PROMISE) tomorrow or as soon as I poke my head up. It should be tomorrow. We caught it before pneumonia this time.

I have a guest post. Was going to put up, etc. BUT– Being sick makes me even more ADD than normal, so I’ve been all over the place all day.

Anyway, tomorrow. Just wanted you to know I’m okay. I didn’t die in a carriage accident. (It’s a joke. You’ll figure it out when I write that post.)

52 thoughts on “Just a Quick Update”

  1. Just…quit being…near things that…are germy. Until you’re back in fighting trim. And then you can unleash all furious hell upon stuff and there will be great rejoicing and I’ll FINALLY get to roast that festival goat I…um. Acquired.

    Anyway, you have your orders.

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  4. The orange fuzzmonster sends his regards.

    And by “regards” I mean there was a fly on the screen and he swatted at it. When it flew away he kept looking at the screen, then launched a full-body shoulder tackle at it. When the screen wobbled enough to knock him off the desk he looked back at it, then at me in reproach.

    I responded: “What did you think would happen?” He is now sulking under the chair. And by sulking I mean he hacked up a hairball and then fell asleep on it.

    Be like Doofus. Be healthy, happy, and sillyfied. When inanimate objects, animate biologicals, and teeny tiny germs bug you, whup their butts. Then go to sleep (not necessarily on a hairball).

    As for the rest of you, avoid crowds. Not just because they are full of portable germ cocktails masquerading in human skin suits, but because they are full of dumb. Nothing good happens in a crowd. Many good things happen at home. Be introverted, be happy, eat tasty food, sleep the sleep of just: for today, we have a chainsaw prezzy and his horde of like-minded antiestablishmentarians. Praise be to He that has blessed us all, and may you all wake rested and ready to disappoint a bureaucrat tomorrow.

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    3. When I started teaching (school type, not flying type), I was told that for the first seven years, I’d catch everything that came through. After that I was pretty safe from most upper respiratory bugs. Guess what? The older teachers were right. (And I wash my hands so often, and don’t eat with the kids, so GI bugs generally leave me alone.)

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      1. We (currently) have three children. (Fourth one due in February). Oldest is 6 and going to school. 4-year-old and 2-year-old are at home all day with Mommy while Daddy is at the office. Result: oldest brings bugs home from school, shares them with siblings and Mommy. So currently my wife is just getting over a week of sniffles and runny nose, while I have had no symptoms. Because while I do see the kids in the evening, and tuck them into bed, I’m not spending all day with them like my wife is.

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        3. Every year in winter one strand of the triad of, “things going around,” tends to be stomach crud running from the kids to their parents and siblings.

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          1. Whooping Cough is making the tour in some states.

            My response is “Oh. Joy.” I’ve had the booster. Booster didn’t help early 2002 for either me or our son. What was interesting then is I brought it home from work where it was going around through the “open concept” tech office.

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      2. I had the student version: had very little contact with other kids before going off to school and caught just about everything in first and second grade.

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    4. Does he eat rats?

      We have been having trouble with at least one midnight nibble.r. Last night I stayed up late and when I got up from the recliner and looked toward the kitchen there was either a mouse on steroids or a rat.

      Thr extra-large trap is out now, but it’s nice to have backup.

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  6. Raeda in fossa manebat*…. but you’re not dead yet!

    *(For those who haven’t been through Ecci Romani text in Latin class, there were endless chapters that started or contained “the carriage is stuck in the ditch”)

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    1. (Silent screaming … Noooooo).

      Son brought home something from work earlier in the week. Took a day off Wednesday because he was dizzy. Back to work Thursday and Friday. It is his call on whether to go to work sick or not. That is where he picked it up, given no children in the household going to the petri dish called school. Fingers crossed I don’t get it. It has been 3 years now since I’ve been sick, I’m due, dang it. Exception 2019 and 2021, 13 months apart, I usually get sick every 3 or so years, once son was out of grade school. Really sick, then immune, while slowly immunity wears off over the next few years.

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        1. Son seems to be recovering fine.

          Dad really does not need to come down with it, since he had surgery almost a month ago.

          I’m the one who will probably need antibiotics if it hits me.

          Thank you for the heads up.

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        2. Oh joy. Monday I have to go to Medford, OR to see my retina doc. (Epiretinal film is trying to regrow in one eye, re-causing distortion. Not much progress with medication, so maybe surgery, or “let’s wait a year”.) The doc’s office isn’t too much of a petri dish, but Costco will be, a bit. OTOH, business days and only one lunch hour trip, so not the Christmas Crush as featured on the weekends. I skip any social events at the hotel.

          @dep729: Are there any restrictions on Costco’s rotisserie chicken? We want to get 4. I’ll buy Monday (and Tuesday if I have to) and refrigerate them at the hotel. (Suite fridge FTW.)

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          1. Re, restrictions on Costco’s rotisserie chicken: Not that I know of. Have never bought more than one at a time, and haven’t for a few months, haven’t paid attention to any special limitation postings. Do see carts with more 4 of them in carts. So, going with “No”. Limits more likely due to how many are available. They do seem to fly out of their keep warm location as they are packaged out of the ovens here in Eugene.

            Costco here in Eugene there are no good times to go from just before Thanksgiving until after the first of the year. “Parking Stalking” might as well have been invented here. Made worse because going across Chad Drive to park in the Office Max/Petsmart/Shopko parking lot isn’t any better since WinCo replaced ShopKo.

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            1. I got some quizzical looks when I got 4 birds in September, but I guess it’ll be OK. (Explained that I shop there at long intervals. Would have been 6 months if my eye didn’t need attention.)

              Parking at the White City Costco is fairly good, even on busy days. I usually can find a spot in one particular corner. It sucked when I wanted a disabled spot (previous knee injury. My temp tag is still valid, but ended using it once after the procedure), but for a bit of a walk, it’s fine.

              It helps that no other consumer-friendly businesses are nearby. FedEx terminal, plus a lot not selling for a strip mall–been on the market for a few years with no luck. No thanks to Bidenomics and Covidiocy.)

              Costco was originally supposed to be in Medford, but apparently every time it came up, the city demanded Costco pay for moar traffic improvements. They bailed and went one city over. I suspect this is the same reason why there’s no Home Depot in Medford. There’s a WalMart and a Lowes, but the nearest Depot is in Phoenix*, about 10 miles from downtown Medford.

              ((*)) I keep being amazed at the number of places in Oregon that share names/were derived from places elsewhere in the country. If I encounter a Saint Clair Shores, Oregon, I’ll need brain bleach. (Suburb of Detroit…)

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        3. Mom and sister-in-law and baby nephew might have caught that after we helped Brother and family move house.

          Doesn’t seem to be particularly contagious though. Stepdad, brother, niece, and I were unaffected.

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  8. “Post and squirrel (PROMISE) tomorrow or as soon as I poke my head up.”

    So a Post Moose, as opposed to a Moose, Junior Grade?

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    1. Does anyone else get the feeling that if these program developers and self-proclaimed tech lords actually read or watch sci-fi, they look at the Cybermen and Terminator as good ideas instead of horrible warnings?

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    2. Oh, perhaps a trope? Of course, there are a few variants:

      Going from memory for a couple of examples. Haven’t watched many movies for a couple of decades, so there’s a bunch I’m sure I’m missing. (Skynet smiles, per Insty, as well as the boss computer in Tron.)
      Kill, attack the disablers: HAL 9000
      Muddle things with bigger computer: HARLIE’s God Machine from David Gerrold’s book.
      Take over the world: Colossus from the Forbin Project
      Be the front “man” for a moon-wide revolution: Mycroft Holmes.

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      1. I, Robot and the other Robot books (and the movie)

        R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

        Fred Saberhagen’s Berserkers

        The ‘Boomers’ in Bubblegum Crisis

        That Star Trek episode where they put a computer in command of the Enterprise and it defied their orders, connected itself to alternate power when they tried to switch it off, killed at least one Redshirt, and attacked Starfleet because it wasn’t told there’s a difference between mock battle exercises and actual war.

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        1. I never saw the I, Robot movie, but do remember one of the stories where a robot lied to protect itself. (IIRC, it had one of the Three Laws modified, leaving room for plot bunnies.)

          Been way too many decades since I read R.U.R.. High School, if memory serves.

          Figured the Berserkers were way beyond trying to defend themselves…

          Boomers? Not familiar with that work.

          I think the title was “The Ultimate Computer”. It either established or continued the trope of James T. Kirk as the Master Computer Killer. (“Mudd’s Women”, “V’ger” and others.)

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  11. Working from home since 2020 has helped prevent most illnesses that occurred in the past.

    Apparently being stuck on mass transit for hours a week, especially on the line that goes by the county hospital and working in downtown Dallas isn’t great for your health. (Check your shoes: Dog or human? Did the drunks piss on the seats again?)

    But cooking almost of all our meals, (Ketovore), instead of consuming packaged goods containing seed oils and hybrid Franken-wheat flour helps too. (See Karl’s post today about the effects.)

    Add in quality supplements and Ivermectin, ect, the major challenges are more age related to joints than cooties.

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    1. Moving 3 miles past the end of the earth (as per $TINY_TOWN t-shirts) has done wonders for my disease collection issues. Caught the ChiComm Flu in 2020 from a trip to town, and have had a case of the ANSI-std flu in late 2021, but maybe a cold every 5 years or so.

      Can’t speak to the rest of my health issues, but for infectious diseases, I’m in fairly good shape.

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  12. OT, but just saw a clip of Trump in Paris. President in all but name. But what gives me a pang is his hair.

    It’s silver. It looks good, but it’s not orange.

    There have been changes here…

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