Eccentric Flower:200912/To Do
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To Do
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Check with Vanguard to make sure 2009 contributions have been maxed.
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Renew AVG subscription.
(N.B. AVG stupid, tells you to re-download software when all you really need to do is find "Reactivate" in menus and enter new license key. Idiots who think users are idiots.)
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Register Jayran and Bwinton here.
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Renew shrunkencinema.com at Network Solutions.
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Back up wiki database.
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Back up other web site data. (and clean out 20 MB of crap)
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Start downloading massive LOTRO update if I want it in time to play tonight.
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Do any last tasks in WoW before cancelling membership.
(N.B. Unfortunately I cancelled it two days too late, and my billing was in three-month bursts, so I can play until 9 Feb whether I like it or not. Oh well.)
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Get more ibuprofen into the house.
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Get some actual work done.
Not gonna happen.
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Stop feeling like reheated crap. This is looking unlikely too.
I never need an excuse to kvetch. However, ideally, the kvetching does not prevent me from actually getting things done. And I have, in fact, gotten things done (see above). Right now I'm just wondering if I'm going to spend all of December feeling like my head is submerged in a bucket of water.
-- 19:13, 11 December 2009 (GMT)
Mel:
Do any last tasks in WoW before cancelling membership.
I have a couple of days left, if I remember right, and I was sort of vaguely thinking I might let it go another month and work on Gelt on the nights you were watching Mythbusters or whatever. I'm not sure if I will really do it, though.
-- 04:29, 12 December 2009 (GMT)
I'd get y'all some spiffy Voltaren (isn't that the best name for a drug? It's just an NSAID, diclofenac, which my rheumatologist says oughta be OTC in the US but isn't) while I'm in Germany, but it would just make your ibuprofen seem weak, which seems like a bad outcome. I'm not sure how much I can smuggle back, anyway.
Have you tried "washing your sinuses" or "nasal rinsing"? You use a squirt bottle or a neti pot, and you put salinated water up one nostril and out the other. It's totally weird, but nevertheless works mechanically to ungunkify sinuses.
-- 18:22, 12 December 2009 (GMT)
Yarnivore's right. I just had sinus surgery and was rinsing four or more times per day with my Neilmed saline rinse bottle. I'm down to once per day, now. It feels good and it really helps with yukky sinuses. Neti pot relies on gravity. This Neilmed thing is better.
-- 20:48, 12 December 2009 (GMT)
I'll chime in and corroborate the Neti pot ideer; weird as threading a wet squirrel through. I didn't know about Neilmed thing and will try to find it.
-- 18:33, 13 December 2009 (GMT)
Bunny42:
Never, ever run out of ibuprofen. Geez!
I have a massive in-home building project that's going to happen this weekend, while my brother is visiting from Seattle. So, even though all I really feel like doing is sleeping, much actual work is getting done. I'll be tickled when it's over, I know all of that. But the prep work and other stuff is pure donkey work, and I don't wanna. A little while ago, I slipped on my big girl panties and quit kvetching, and it seems to be working. But I'm not afflicted, as you appear to be, so I had no real excuse in the first place.
I hope you feel better.
-- 18:19, 11 December 2009 (GMT)