Zamfir

Originally Posted by oldivor *beats Zamfir with 10 year old laptop* You have such odd taste in prosthetics...

Originally Posted by oldivor More like an add on. ;_; ...you built yourself a dildo?

Originally Posted by oldivor Depends on what you by "it." I've done some antenna design ifyouknowwhatimean. ...you built yourself a prosthetic?

I should go read, since I'll fall asleep if I play bass...

Originally Posted by oldivor I generally don't use salt but yeah. It doesn't bother me. If you can't stand it I guess it's not worth if for you. Hhmm having deviated septum would suck, lol. Wiki says there's a surgery for it. Yeah, but it's a thin layer of bone away from fatal or blinding mistakes. That said, I'm 80% ready to have it done when I get back to the States.

Originally Posted by moogieotter I told you to snort the xanax! Don't have any. Thankfully.

Originally Posted by oldivor That doesn't sound like a bad idea though! If it's sinuses have you tried the hot water trick? Hot water trick? I have tried inhaling vapors from a steaming pot of water with raw salt, with a blanket over my head to keep the vapors in, per my MIL's suggestion. That didn't work so well, takes too long, is generally unpleasant. I rely on my sinus rinse bottle, which actually squirts warm (not hot!) salt + soda bicarbonate up my nose. That helps greatly, but is not sufficient. A large part of the problem is a deviated septum.

Originally Posted by oldivor That's good to hear, well the getting better part. Yeah. Last night kind of sucked. Eat a spoonful of some semi-soup-like rice and chicken, fall asleep...eat another spoonful...wash, rinse repeat. Massive headache last night, too. I hate the chills.

Wow, my sinusitis went from 2 (percolating for some time without ill effects) to 60 yesterday. I had a 104 F (40 C) fever. Figured I should go to the doc. Ended up walking almost 1 km there, supported by the wife. Got meds. Apparently one is a serious antibiotic. I'm down to 99.2 F now.

Rule #1: When I have to ask you the same question three times, it generally means that you are in deep {censored} as a visa applicant, or digging a very big hole.

Originally Posted by Retrovertigo I do that all the time. To my knowledge it hasn't killed me. I haven't barfed from that or the dubious lettuce / dubious salad dressing I snarfed down for lunch at 2:45 PM today.

Of the four slices of bread we had left in the fridge, two had small (.8 cm) spots of mold on them, back to back. The other two had no apparent mold. So I ate them. Was this ill-advised?

I'm going to do pushups on my knuckles because I've had no exercise in weeks, plus some small hand dumbbells. Then maybe a little bass, and then probably some WoW time. Might read later today. Call me crazy.

I should be in bed.

The boss is on vacation all week, another officer left her post early in June to go to Iraq with no one coming to replace her until November, a third colleague who manages all the visa stuff and backs up the boss is out sick for two days, and I'm left scrambling to manage the entire section, both visas and American services, without any access to the e-mail of the boss or his backup to figure out what big problems are brewing unbeknownst to me, all the while adjudicating visas, passports, and anything else people throw at me. We're basically at 40% of full officer staffing, and I have about 14 locally employed staff to worry about. Two days of this now, right after I came back from two days of vacation. I'm dead tired trying to do more than two full time jobs, and I need my colleague to stop being sick.

Originally Posted by moogieotter Crush up those pills and snort em. That's what Zamfir does. Seriously, sorry bro. It'll be ok. Eh? How'd I get dragged into this? If I did that, I'd be out of a job PDQ...

Originally Posted by Goofball Jones My journey through the old jazz greats has landed on Mingus. Just bought "Pithecanthropus Erectus" and "Ah Um" from Amazon. I'm really digging it. Great albums. That said, they are not easy to listen to. Ah Um is a bit more trad oriented, but man...I have to be in a Mingus mood to listen to them, and they demand your attention. They're not passive listening, nod-ya-head jazz.

I need an easier German fiction book to read than Professor Unrat. Trouble is, I can't stand trash lit. I was thinking of getting back into the Harry Potter series since I stopped after book 5, but I think I'd miss all the jokes in translation.

Originally Posted by mrcrow where the hell am i? Banging Carmen San Diego?

Originally Posted by niomosy Life always sucks in dress shoes though Captain Niomo!! Where ya been? Missing out on B-man getting married, apparently... Actually, I'm so lucky and happy to have this job, even the dress shoes come with a rosy tint. To go with the purple on my toe...

Originally Posted by oldivor You feeling footsy Zamfir? ...only with manga chicks over the age of 18, sorry.

Originally Posted by moogieotter Toe update? Still hurts, still discolored, but numbed just enough to walk around better, thanks for asking! Life is gonna suck in dress shoes today.

Purple and swollen isn't good, right? Walking is hard.

OK, toe still hurts. Going to limp somewhere nearby for dinner and beer. But I'm gonna have to skip hunting the jazz clubs / open mics as I'd planned for tonight.

Originally Posted by moogieotter Ya. Her friend is hooking her up. We offered her, but it's 2 doors down from batterer. Good for you and the friend!