February 1, 2008
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Absentee
I've been absent for quite some time now. I've got a good excuse, umm, reason. I got bronchitis and a sinus infection in December. About the middle of January, it seemed that I was over it. You guessed it; I wasn't. I went through another run of antibiotics and had about one week of feeling decent. Then I was sick again and having hot flashes. Note: If these hot flashes are anything like a woman goes through with menopause, then I'm extremely glad that I'm not a woman. Besides, it would be womenopause for me. So I went back to the doc yesterday, at their insistence this time. The doc said I had the worse sinus infection that he has even seen (dubious honor) and that my esophagus was raw due to all the coughing and vomiting (just a solid week of it). Now I'm on more antibiotics, something for the stomach and esophagus and a steroid pack. Gee, I really don't like all the drugs, but I'm so beat up that I'll take 'em. The hot flashes, which were basically around my head and neck, are from the massive, Anthrax type, infection in my sinuses. Man, and those things make me so disoriented, hot, head gonna' explode, miserable, panic-stricken and nervous. Oh, I can't lay down because the change in position messes me up, and I can't sleep more than an hour because of all the coughing and hurling. The doc said that it would be at least two weeks before I saw any improvement and suggested that the hospital would be the place to heal. Yeah, right...not going there unless I have to.
Things Done
I don't know if my sons felt sorry for me, but they have spent about 4 days rearranging furniture in my office, helping me sort through and trash lots of stuff, and finishing up the network. I have 5 computers on my network, along with 1 scanner, 1 printer and a new scanner/printer/copier/fax machine. Cool. So the arrangement as I sit here and type is that I have one monitor in front of me with it's keyboard on the pull out drawer. Sitting in front of the monitor is the keyboard for the PC and monitor on the right. To the left of the monitor is a TV with cable and plugged into that is my VHS -> DVD player/converter. Directly to my right is the third monitor and when I pull out the drawer with the keyboard, all I have to do is rotate 90° to use it. To my immediate left is another desk that has my laptop on it, but I have to move over to use it. The other laptop is in the living room. First printer is on a shelf above this monitor. The scanner is in a slot below and to the right of this keyboard, and the scanner/printer/copier/fax is to the right of the right monitor. Everyone says it makes me look really geeky, but hey, the setup works well for me. Oh, everything is networked so it makes a really fine setup (some of wired, some of it wireless).
I got more bookcases, desks and shelves put up in MY home office and it's almost all sorted, arranged and filed. My sons have done all that moving and hooking up stuff, and putting stuff on the high shelves since I've been so sick. The next item to come in is my drawing table and a short book case that goes under the front of it.
Pics later on.
"Hey, move it!"
When coming back from the doc, I stopped by the PSD office to pay my bill. After paying it and walking back out to my truck, another car pulled past me and stopped at the front door. That wouldn't have been too bad, but this lady blocked the exit so that I couldn't get out. I yelled over to her that I was leaving and she gave me the wait-a-minute finger and walked inside. Well, I got out of my truck and noticed her car was still running. I walked over, got in, mumbled to the young lady inside that this wasn't a parking place and pulled her car out in this secondary street. I walked back to my truck, and drove off. I noticed that when I was driving out of sight, she still had not come out of the building.
What is wrong with people?! There was a woman that was #1 and everyone should wait on her to do her business and then there's this sick idgit that gets in her car and moves it. I thought humans were the smartest species on the earth; may still be, but they are just crazy and inconsiderate.
The FogWalker goes in to take some more pills and some cough medicine....recliner time...
Comments (4)
Thanks for the compliment - I wish I FELT younger LOL
One time I came home from work and there was a Harley parked sideways taking two parking spaces in my apartment parking lot - and there was nowhere else to park. I moved the harley, inch by inch, until it was out of my way, then I parked. When I came out in the morning, there were a couple people standing around it and wondering who moved it. (Picture me at that time, 21 years old, 110 pounds, 5'3" tall) I said in my sweetest voice "I moved it. You were taking up two parking spots." And the guy (big burly biker) looked at me and was truly baffled. But they left me alone. I have a feeling they pictured me picking up the bike, moving it and setting it back down. Not taking a half an hour to move it inch by inch LOL
@SherylM I bet they thought you were mean and afraid to say something!
Thanks for stopping by. I can't stand Descartes thus far!!! I read and read and all I can think of is "How does one decide this man is a great philosopher and not just a whack job???"
But I read on hoping to at least gain some new insight into his perspective but..........not working out so much.
Sinus infections are horrible. I've had a couple this year and I'm really tired of it! However, I've not had the Anthrax type! Ha ha ha! Doesn't sound like much fun.
@catalya I'm not so sure that Descartes was a great philosopher, but I'm kinda' sure that he did some good stuff before writing down his meditations. LoL! I found him and others interesting to discuss and really go out "there" in the cranial land far away. I enjoy discussing it more now than when I had to take it in college.
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