In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Well, Climate Stations still hasn't put up their pretty graphic, but I did find a website that reports season rain total at USC (which is where the Climate Stations graphic is based - plus the website also includes other SoCal places). https://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we13a.php It indicates that through November we're at almost exactly normal.
The US Drought Monitor indicates that most of the west coast is 'abnormally dry' since (according to an article I read yesterday but didn't save the link to) everyplace from mid-California on up is at half normal rainfall.
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Word to the wise...
Clorox bleach spray is not "safe".
I've been cleaning my basement with it today since it has been absolutely gross down there for years. It looks and smells great, but I've got some mild bleach toxicity going on now. I should have done this during the nice weather with all of the windows open. I've been at this for hours without any windows open because it's too cold outside.
My lungs aren't on fire like they were last time when I cleaned the visqueen in the crawl space with undiluted bleach and a mask, and until very late into the game I didn't even notice that I was suffering from any irritation until my eyes started bothering me.
I went to grab a cup of coffee and realized that I was in trouble when the coffee smelled like bleach. Everything tastes like bleach now too. I'm not having any problems smoking a cigarette, but even the cigarette tastes like bleach.
Read the labels.
Clorox bleach spray is not "safe".
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Ouch. 
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That alone wouldn't be so terrible, but I'm suffering pretty badly today from a lower back pain that is becoming worrisome to me. I don't think it's a muscle pain. I'm wondering if I have an internal infection of some sort... possibly a kidney infection.
It's been bothering me on and off for about 10 days now, although I haven't mentioned it before. All the way back when I had first started working on my computer. It got pretty bad there one night that I had stayed up particularly late and I think sitting in the same position was really effecting it.
I've been loading up on vitamin C for about a week now and getting more sleep than usual. For the most part it has seemed to work and it wasn't feeling as bad as it had before. Today though it's on fire. I've got a few more things I would like to get done tonight before I call it quits until tomorrow. Hopefully a good night sleep and I'll feel better.
Do you know if I would be feeling feverish or sick if I had a kidney infection, Kiki?
Maybe it's not as bad as I'm imagining it is. It hasn't effected my appetite or made me feel sick. It's just really painful and it feels different than any pulled muscle I've ever had before. Risking some TMI factor here, I'm also pretty gassy as well.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Oh dear. Jack, do you have a local Urgent Care (Doc in a Box) you could run off to? They are the people you need to see to say either 'OMG !!' or 'you're OK'. At least you know they're not attached to a hospital ! 
I also PM'd you.
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Yeah. I've got something like that.
Got a deal with the city tomorrow that needs to be taken care of though, and Tuesday I start my dental project. I think I'll just take it easy the next few days and keep loading up on the vitamin C and see how it feels. The more I think about it, the more it seems like terrible gassyness than anything else. It's just that it's been like this for a pretty long time now and it seems rather concentrated on that one spot. I'm no stranger to the occasional gas issue, even when I'm on a good diet like I am these days, but if that's all this is it's certainly behaving differently than it ever has before. Usually it's up front and more spread out all over the place. After working all day long it is a project just bending down to get something right now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I would really love to unload all my tips and tidbits of info. As you know, I do tips and tidbits of info quite a bit ! This just doesn't seem the time. I'm really, really sorry. I truly am.
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I'm good. No worries. Feeling better today, but it's still a problem.
Better that you don't give advise and tell me 10 things that it probably isn't that would make me freak out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I'm glad you're doing better! But if that should change, I hope you skedaddle on over to a doc.
FWIW I always tell everyone I know irl - did you / will you see a doctor? It's my standard answer. I'm a big fan of people seeing a doctor for things that are troubling them.
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I don't know if I can say that I'm doing "better" just yet.
As bad as it felt a week or so ago, it had pretty much gone away or at least become minimal enough that I was easily able to ignore it. That's about where I'm at right now, but I haven't been all that active today compared to yesterday. It doesn't hurt to sit still or to lay down. It doesn't even really hurt when I'm moving around much either. But it is hard for me to get up from a sitting or lying position without pain.
I'll keep an eye on it. Might go to that clinic if it's still bothering me next week. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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