A high white blood cell count does not cause hypertension. 
I needed all sorts of bloodwork: CBC, lytes, lipid profile, cortisol, TSH, T3, T4, Ferritin, I have forgotten the rest of them; there were probably 4 more. I’m glad my doc is thorough, but jeesh!
I was so hungry, I went to Jewel (regional grocery store) and bought a deli lunch and ate it in the car.
I am tired. Nap time? I can haz sleeptime? And f**k if it isn’t sprinkling outside as I type. :eek:
Dang! Posts from welby and BelZ! It’s like an episode of The Twilight Zone! Who’s next? Ex? 
I’m home. I was sneezin’ my face off at work and finally gave up. I came home and took some Benadryl[sup]TM[/sup] and a nap. I hate ragweed!
Tonight is men’s night at the church. Thus, steak and beer! YAY!
Good afternoon. Just a quick post because I skimmed.
I don’t think I’ve ever been to Michigan, but I could be wrong. I’ve seen lots of the US, but Michigan just doesn’t stick out in my memory.
Hey welby! It’s great to see you again.
Lots going on here at work at the mo, so I’ll have to try and check in later. Hugs, smooches, gropes to all.
I thought I was hallucinating. Soooooooo, since you saw them, too…
Howdy, Dudes!!!
Hi, welby! Good to see you again! How’s welbywife, the dogs, and the kids?
I’ve had a nap, and I feel more like work might be possible tonight. I hope it goes better here at home than it did yesterday.
It’s Nat’s birthday (and International Talk Like A Pirate Day), and since he’s eight months now, I plan to start him on the family diet of bread and cheese. Lots of both. I’m excited- quite soon (in the next few weeks) he’ll be eating enough of the same stuff as us that he can start sharing some of our dinners. Fun. We’re still doing the gradual-food-exposure thing, even though there’s no history of food allergies and I’m being relaxed about it, because I don’t think he’ll have any issues.
We’re all doing pretty reasonably. The kids are in college, the girl majoring in childhood development and the boy majoring in parties. Welbywife has taken up photography in a big way, which will be nicer once we get her a camera of her own. The photography thing is an MMP all its own I think.
I’ve missed you guys, but not much, because I was in here reading every day and waiting (and waiting and waiting. . .) for the posting to become free again.
So I was here, I was just stalking you. . .
Swampy, beer helps more than Benadryl. Trust me on this.
Taters - that was a heckuva grope.
Sorry to confuse Rigs, two separate issues. I had hypertension with the Little Guy, so they want to monitor me for twenty minutes each week.
They were complaining that they had forgotten to take blood for my white cell count cause of it being so high in the past.
No real problems, just little frustrations.
But you keep that rain on your side of the lake, ok?
:(It’s official. I am sick. My throat is hurting and I cannot breathe through my nose.
welby the Benadryl [sup]TM[/sup] was stage one. Stage two, beer, shall occur this evenin’.
{{{CutiePie}}} Feel better soon!
G’day, I’m just checking in for now, too many Monday chores today. I’ll be back with stories and photos.
Ta!
I was not a good girl in our first departmental meeting today and I did not play nice.
My hero.
Sometimes, playing nice is overrated, Soapy.
Columbus is one big disaster area today (well, not as bad as Chicago cuz we had no rain, but still…). There are trees and tree remnants everywhere and lots and lots of people still without power.
Mine went out last night around 5:30 p.m. and was back this morning at 7:30 or so. I think my laptop was fried when the power went out. Gotta see if there’s some type of re-set that I’m missing. For now, I’m using the 10-year-old PC which is, apparently, indestructible.
Which started a fire in the neighbors tree. I was late for work because I needed to point out the correct tree to the nice fire people. It had stopped burning by then.
I’m going to go for a walk to check out the power situation in the 'hood and will come back with more comments…
Michigan feud was fun Rebo. Did I mention I was born and grew up there?
More after a bit.
GT
I was in Michigan once for a few minutes when I was visiting a friend in Marinette, and we ran a quick errand to Menominee.
Howdy Mumpers! Wait…was that Welby I just saw there? Welcome back Welby! Wow, BelZ too. Now we need Bumba and Rue and a couple others my mind blanked on and it’ll be like old times. Oh, yeah **Ex
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Icky Ike and his leftovers. Boo.
Work is finally starting to get caught up, and even a little ahead, for the first time since probably June. Feels nice.
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Sometimes, playing nice is overrated, Soapy.
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Agreed
you were all hanging out here already so you didn’t see this
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I am home from my weekend with 299 other women. No, it wasn’t a lesbian orgy, just a Sweet Adelines conference.
I am tired, so I’m not even going to pretend I skimmed. So I’m sorry if I missed anything important or otherwise especially noteworthy. You’ll forgive me, right?
So, we’re travelling home along 78 East and I step on the brakes (because it was warranted) and they slip and I swerve, but got it under contol before anything nasty happened. The whole ride home, whenever I saw that there was no one close behind me, I pumped the brakes which made them work properly, but if I drove for a stretch without doing that, when I did step, they acted like only one side was working.
So I made up my mind I was going to get up early on my day off and take the car in to get the brakes examined and repaired. I was perplexed because the brakes behaved normally and well on the drive out Friday on the rainy wet slippery roads.
As per habit after one of these things, we (roommate and I) met up with her husband at a diner near their home so that I could stretch and get some coffee and transfer her stuff to his car and be on my way.
As I drove off, I noticed a warning light I hadn’t seen on the 80 mile trip home - the parking brake was still on. I never use it, so I didn’t think to check it before leaving the hotel. But roommate had parked the car Friday evening when we got there, so she retrieved the car and pulled it up to the hotel’s front door so we could load up and leave - and she must have set the parking brake So I called her when I got home and told her next time please remind me to check that before I put the car in gear.
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The only tales of Michigan I have are from many years ago. The first one: I was at a Mensa conference and in the same hotel was the Michigan State High School Basketball Coaches Association (or whatever the prooper name of that organization is). At one point, on the elevator were 3 coaches and me. They asked about Mensa and I gave a brief but accurate desciption. One of the coaches asked “so what do you do at these things, get together and solve the world’s problems?” As the door opened for my floor, before I stepped out, I turned and smiled and said “no, we cause them” and slipped out as the doors closed (I was far more fleet afoot in those days)
At another Mensa conference a few years after that, the hotel was also hosting a Science Fiction Convention as well as the state association of psychologists. It was easy to tell who was with which group - we were in jeans and t-shirts, the SF folk were in all manner of costume, and the psychologists were the ones following various clusters of us (and SF-ers) around scribbling hastily in their notebooks.
I had relatives in the Ann Arbor area at one time, but I think they’ve since moved
GT-your 10 year old PC caused a tree to start on fire? I think we’re missing a sentence there.
Rosie–I read your post in the old MMP. Weird about the brakes–but :smack: to your friend.
Dinner is done. I worked out in the yard a bit. The flood waters were scary enough, but what’s disturbing me today is how dry everything is around here–I would have thought all that water would have taken longer to absorb/evaporate. Our street’s not even wet.
gt, glad you’re all in one piece and that the only potential casualty was the laptop… sounds like Ike gave you quite the wallop.
I’m trying to decide how to spend my evening while The Boy is out teaching a class… starting a new sewing project? going for a walk, seeing as it’s actually nice and crisp outside? watching a rerun of House on TV? I’m booooooooooored.
Me, too, Muppet. I am contemplating watching TV, a sure sign that I am desperate.
I need a good book to read. 
It’s SIL’s b-day - he’s 33. Daughter and he and Brit friend all went to Olive Garden, so **FCD **and I snarfed down some leftovers. I baked the lad a Red Velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Disturbingly, the ingredients on the frosting can didn’t include cream cheese.
The only time I was in Michigan was for 3 days in Detroit (Cobo Hall) for a business conference with my husband. He spent his teen years in Birmingham, and one afternoon, we skipped out of the conference and drove back to his old neighborhood. I saw his old house, his first wife’s family home, and the trailer where he and his ex lived after they got married. We also went to the deli where he worked as a kid, and drove past his high school. We were there in late fall - it was grey and mostly unpleasant. He always said Michigan had 9 months of winter and 3 months of bad weather…
I had my end-of-year assessment chat with my boss today. Apparently I’m not flying as far under the radar as I thought. Some folks higher up the food chain know of me, and I have some sort of reputation. I found out I scored some major points by requesting the cross-training. Anyway, based on what he was telling me, I’m expecting a pretty good review when the numbers all fall out. So that made for a good day.
Not bad for a Monday, right?
Temps are dropping here - coolness returns. YAY!
Weekend Two of the Renaissance Faire is in the bag now.
Weather was much more sane, but the EMTs were still busy. Run of the mill slip-and-falls, dizzys and swoonings, at least one accidental self-stabbing, and someone got soup splashed in their face. Apparently, black pepper in the eye hurts worse than Mace. :eek: