Lenten thanks, Day 25
Thank God for bad cowboy music to fill up the empty air in the car when NPR’s local talkathon shows are dull as old chewing gum and NPR’s local pretend-classical station is playing Strauss waltzes and Souza marches.
Lenten thanks, Day 26
On the rare occasions that You decide to allow a full seven hours of uninterrupted sleep, your Godship, that’s very nice. It would be even nicer if You could manage a few more events like that…
Neither time nor energy for much blogging today. This damn virus is still hanging on—unless I’m mistaken, we’re into the fourth week with that now. Tiresome. I swear, every bug takes me twice as long to throw off as normal people seem to need.
One of my students said the disease tends to come back on you, and that when it does it brings on gastrointestinal symptoms. Well, dunno if that’s true, but yesterday I had a bitch of a bellyache and projectile diarrhea. Could’ve been from the cheap hamburger I picked up at Safeway for the dog, though. Night before last I barbecued some of it for me as well as to feed the pooch, and my chunk of it came off the grill on the high side of rare. So it could have been contaminated meat, something that seems to get more common as the days pass.
Speaking of students, I’ve fallen way behind in grading stoont papers, what with being too sick to think, dealing with the eternally ongoing Blackboard fiascos, having the Carnival of Personal Finance take up two full days of my time, trying to cope with not one but two clients on ridiculous deadlines, and then getting distracted with the Macy’s flap. So, I’m going to have to spend the entire day reading papers.
Meanwhile, for your eclectic delectation, here are a few things to read.
Check out this exceptional shopping tool Money Beagle discovered.
While I was trying to figure out if the current viral complaint actually does a) relapse and b) entail gut symptoms, I came across this interesting site from a Columbia professor of virology. Check out the guy’s podcasts!
Here’s a handy thumbnail guide for car buyers. Great pointers for how to hold your own with those dratted salesmen.
And this has gotta be a bookmarkable: eight low-tech ways to revive broken electronic gadgetry.
And once and for all…