The shit has started.
Came into work this morning and the goddam christmas music is now playing in the elevator. And I have to ride to the top floor.
Which would you prefer - we have an elevator offline because a client unrinated in it.
Last year I threatened my brother with teaching his children how to sing “12 days of Christmas” the Twisted Sister way, because, you know, they need to practice their English (we’re from Spain, in case anybody isn’t tired of hearing me say it), if he didn’t stop playing the sappiest, most sugary carols he could find. This past weekend I preemptively reminded him that The Little Drummer Boy shall be answered with Alvin and the Chipmunks, specially if sung by Raphael.
So use the stairs. It’s good for you! 
Cats you can either put up with the once a month two minute claw clip or you can go live somewhere else. I gave you kitty treats and lots of petting so shut up with the mewling.
Dear Aunt,
The statement “Chinese medicine has been around for thousands of years” means “Chinese medicine has been around for thousands of years”. Taking the fact that it is older to mean and of the following:
It is better than “modern” medical practices (her quotes)
It can cure things “modern” medicine can’t
or
It is the reason life expectancy has increased :dubious:
Is a logical fallacy. Especially that last one. I have no fucking clue how you came to that conclusion. She seriously told me that. Somehow the idea that modern medicine was based on “ancient Chinese medical arts” is the reason people live longer now.
Am I impressed that your fever went away hours after your friend did his acupressure therapy on you? No. Are you impressed that my 18 months-old daughter’s fever went away hours after I kissed her forehead? Maybe I should start charging.
I wrote this article. And the comments on are disgusting. Why are the dumbest people allowed access to the internet? Over one hundred and fifty comments so far and most of them are unbelievably stupid.
Clean water is not the reason hib rates were vastly reduced.
Hep b is about fifty times as contagious as HIV and yes little kids can easily spread it to each other.
Yes, we’ve had over three hundred cases of measles in NJ so far, not the zero you claimed you fucking moron.
Chicken pox sucks, assholes. Shingles sucks even worse. Hence the vaccines instead of the diseases.
I swear to god I’m going to aside time to directly argue with these idiots later when I’ve had another twenty cups of coffee and a prophylactic migraine pill.
Anti-rant.
My most recent A1C test was 6.3. I think I got this diabetes thing under solid control - and I get to keep my dark chocolate in the process.
Between this and my other various test results (all good), I’m dancing today!
Hot water heat is a little better. It would even be better if the damn boiler/radiators would stop making noise. I’m about at my wit’s end trying to figure out what’s wrong. I’m sure there is a leak somewhere, I just don’t know where and all the radiators have been bled within an inch of their lives and I drained the expansion tank. And, of course, it doesn’t start making noise until late night/early morning. Aaargh!!
Pitting myself because I never remember that I should take a shower after I spend a day decorating our two (artificial) Xmas trees.
The trees spend the off-season in bags in the attic, the ornaments spent the off-season in boxes in the basement. I’m sure lots of dust has built up on everything over the years, yet I never think of washing myself down afterwards until it’s too late.
Woke up this morning all congested on one side, and with a sore throat on that side to match. Gotten better as the day’s gone on, but I’m still sniffly and a bit sore.
I swear, I’m going to stick a note on the inside of one of the ornament boxes that says “remember to take a shower afterwards, dumbass!”
Yay Chimera!!
Never had a problem with the A1C test even though both grandmothers had diabetes. Don’t know if that’s a factor in me developing it or not, but it can’t be good.
Because apparently there’s no vaccine for Teh Stupid yet. Or a filter for it, either. We, as a society, sometimes seem to reward people for being stupid, or at least acting stupid.
If it makes you feel any better, I had my daughter vaccinated against Hep B when she was a young teen.
LAvenderBlue, I read your piece and it’s very good. My only complaints are 1) that it had to go in the “opinion” section when it should be in a “factual” section of the newspaper, and 2) the stupid commentors, as you said.
Stupid foot. Stupid ankle. I’d like to know what possessed my Achilles tendon to conspire with all the other ligaments/tendons/muscles because right now I’m very tempted to shoot it.
Oh I know. We wrote the book because we were tired of arguing with it. The people who argue against the heb b particularly annoy the heck out of me. Heb b is very dangerous and incredibly contagious. No, your baby isn’t out having sex or doing drugs but you don’t know who is.
Thank you. The editor gave me a choice of an interview or an editorial. I felt the editorial gave me greater control so I went with it.
The first one I read:
I’m not sure why I continued reading after that, but a few minutes later I really just wanted to put my head on my desk and whimper for a while.
My faith in humanity is much like a phoenix in that it keeps dying over and over, but unlike a phoenix I’m pretty sure it’s gonna run out of lives completely before long and end up as a charred bird carcass.
I recently had some blood tests done -
my lithium is too low and my thyroid and liver function tests were abnormal.
fuck
(doing the Snoopy dance of joy) Keep up the good work!
I wish I could. Seriously, 12 flights up and down daily would be great. But it’s a secure facility and the stairs are strictly emergency exit only. Really sucks.
Wait, evil geniuses are using vaccines to reduce the world’s population? I…I…sorry, I think my brain is starting to gibber.