In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:Doctor kind of danced around that one. In fact, I had to ask very bluntly Say doctor, what are the names of the bacteria in my sinuses? and it seemed kind of rude at that point to follow up with So, which one is resistant, and what's it resistant to? since she didn't exactly freely divulge to begin with.
Originally posted by 1kiki:
"I have TWO bacteria infecting my sinuses, one of which is resistant to what I'd been given." You know me - I'm nosy. If you care to share which ones I'd be very interested.
From the inet, BOTH of the bacteria (Psuedomonas and S aureus) are sometimes treated with penicillin-class drugs (PA with penicillin and SA with amoxicillin-clavulanic acid) and since I've had multiple rounds of amox-clav that doesn't clear up for me which is resistant to what. In any case, I'm going to be taking levaquin (no lifting heavy weight for me, now!) and rinsing my sinuses with hypertonic saline/gentamicin/steroid "special sauce" that I mix up at home.
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We've got rain here right now or it was raining.
Have to go out in a bit and take some glass down to my local recycling depot.
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I was just going to ask about that. I hope the rain is helping to put out those fires!
It's interesting BRENDA, you speak so often about the rain (and the snow) that you obviously hate it. But I guess you're not the only one, since that article that I posted made it very clear that a LOT of people there find eternal gloom to be pretty depressing, and that one of the biggest impacts of the fire was the smoke, because the smoke blotted out one of the few times that you might actually see some sunshine. Is that about right?
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I had a woman from Finland working for me - I may have mentioned her before - but when she got a fantastic opportunity back in Finland she left with obvious regret. The impression that I got was that she hated leaving sunny Santa Monica for dark, cold, depressing winters. I grew up in an area that had a lot of winter weather ... not the bright sparkly kind but endless days of cloudy gloom ... I thought it was OK back then! I wonder how I would fare if i had to move back!
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I was just going to ask about that. I hope the rain is helping to put out those fires!
It's interesting BRENDA, you speak so often about the rain (and the snow) that you obviously hate it. But I guess you're not the only one, since that article that I posted made it very clear that a LOT of people there find eternal gloom to be pretty depressing, and that one of the biggest impacts of the fire was the smoke, because the smoke blotted out one of the few times that you might actually see some sunshine. Is that about right?
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I had a woman from Finland working for me - I may have mentioned her before - but when she got a fantastic opportunity back in Finland she left with obvious regret. The impression that I got was that she hated leaving sunny Santa Monica for dark, cold, depressing winters. I grew up in an area that had a lot of winter weather ... not the bright sparkly kind but endless days of cloudy gloom ... I thought it was OK back then! I wonder how I would fare if i had to move back!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
I hope so too. The grass will green up down here with this rain and clear out the rest of the smoke. But as I have said before the Interior of the province with the fires needs it more.
That is correct Sig. Summer is the main time that we get a good amount of sun and with all that smoke, it just blotted it out. It was very dark and gloomy all day.
At least when we get snow it is generally brighter because of it. I only hate the snow because of where I am living makes it difficult to get around. The rain brings nothing but clouds and grey.
For that lady it would have been regret. I couldn't live in the Arctic with 6 months of dark and that was what she was facing going home.
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Speaking of smoke and gloom ... and one's normal weather ... here in SoCal we get pretty relentless sun. And it was phenomenally, blazingly hot for a few months with the sun just beating down on everything. So when the Holy fire got going, and the sun was obscured for three days and the smoke cover actually dropped the temperature, it was in some ways a relief.
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Watching "Iron Chef: Japan" makes me miss my bamboo steamers.
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Nothing to do with that except cooking ... I really like to share tastes of food and recipes with people at work. Maybe I'm recipe-challenged, but most times I can get a recipe but just not imagine how it's supposed to taste. So it's good to be able to share the actual dishes. Things are often FAR better in real life than I think they'll be. For example - I can't believe how many YEARS late I was in discovering the heavenly tastes of mashed and riced cauliflower.
You'd think that would be a natural thing for people to get together over - that there would be clubs, groups, gatherings of people with a mutual interest in home cooking. But no. At least, not around here. There are hiking clubs and gardening clubs and book club and foodie let's-go-to-restaurant clubs and wine tasting clubs and beer brewing clubs and horse riding clubs --- but no home cooking clubs. Though there are plenty of people offering to take chunks of your money to 'teach' you how to cook.
Is there any such thing up where you live Brenda? Groups of people who get together to share food and recipes? Am I just in the wrong subculture? Or does this seem like a weird idea that nobody in their right mind would be interested in pursuing?
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Nothing to do with that except cooking ... I really like to share tastes of food and recipes with people at work. Maybe I'm recipe-challenged, but most times I can get a recipe but just not imagine how it's supposed to taste. So it's good to be able to share the actual dishes. Things are often FAR better in real life than I think they'll be. For example - I can't believe how many YEARS late I was in discovering the heavenly tastes of mashed and riced cauliflower.
You'd think that would be a natural thing for people to get together over - that there would be clubs, groups, gatherings of people with a mutual interest in home cooking. But no. At least, not around here. There are hiking clubs and gardening clubs and book club and foodie let's-go-to-restaurant clubs and wine tasting clubs and beer brewing clubs and horse riding clubs --- but no home cooking clubs. Though there are plenty of people offering to take chunks of your money to 'teach' you how to cook.
Is there any such thing up where you live Brenda? Groups of people who get together to share food and recipes? Am I just in the wrong subculture? Or does this seem like a weird idea that nobody in their right mind would be interested in pursuing?
I think that idea is too much of a throwback to the days when women stayed at home and did all the cooking.
I've actually never dated a woman in my life that knew how to cook. A few of their brothers were excellent cooks, but none of them were. Come to think of it, the youngest woman I know that enjoys cooking and is great at it is my step mom who's only 9 years older than I am.
I don't think this is really a gendered thing at this point. Everybody my age and younger pretty much wants instant gratification everywhere they turn. Unless somebody REALLY enjoys cooking and it is their profession or their hobby, I don't think anybody devotes any time to it anymore.
The only reason that I do it is because I had to change my diet for health issues and I couldn't live off of the processed junk anymore. I keep saying that with all my free time I'm going to learn how to cook a few things I'd really love to eat, but I can think of at least 100 things off the top of my head that I'd rather be doing than standing in front of the stove.
All that being said, you could probably find groups online for cooking enthusiasts. Maybe there'd even be enough locally by you to meet face to face instead of trading recipes over the internet.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Oh... btw... amidst all of my health drama I think I glossed over what the fix to my computer was.
Turned out all I needed was a new power supply to it. Since this one was actually designed for the board I have and not an older one that technically worked but wasn't designed for it, it's running better than it ever has before now. This PSU has a 24 pin and 8 pin connector for the board, where both of the old ones that got jacked up were relics that only had 20 pins and 4 pins.
So with the cost of the PSU, thermal paste, canned air and a new set of surge protectors, after I get the rebate on the PSU it will have all cost me $50 to have a computer that works even better than it had the first 5 years I owned it. That's a hell of a lot better than paying $700-$800 to put together a new one, even though it would be sweet to have the newest ram and finally have my OS load up instantly on a SSD. This one is way more than enough for my needs at the moment though. I really don't know what I'm missing.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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"All that being said, you could probably find groups online for cooking enthusiasts. Maybe there'd even be enough locally by you to meet face to face instead of trading recipes over the internet." Been there. Done that. Sigh. To no avail.
My health is also what got me started cooking. Have I mentioned that for my entire life I have had almost no sense of smell? So I used to make very indifferent - but nutritious! - pots of soup that would sit in the frig while I scrounged everything but. It took me over a year to realize that as little a sense of smell that I have, some food still tastes better and some food still tastes worse TO ME. And that if I was going to eat nutritious food, it would have to be something that tastes good TO ME. That's when I decided I needed to learn how to cook. And I can proudly say I'm now a good home cook! And even better, OTHER people like my cooking as well!
And ...
CONGRATS! on the computer fix!
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