Nick Postagulous
Thursday, July 29, 2004
How To Be Sick Badly
So, Tuesday, I'm sick as a dog at work and struggle through the day, coughing and hacking at people. Actually, I tried to stay in my office and not cough by drinking coffee and sucking on Hall's Vita-C Grapefruit flavored drops. I hated to open my last pack from China. Also, it tasted horrible with the coffee.
So, Tuesday after I got off work, I think that was the day when I went over to Alison's mom's house and tried to get the leaking tap that used to supply water to the washing machine to stop dripping. After that, I think I went home.
Big Brother Live Feed Transcripts
The only real safe time to read these at Survivor Sucks or BB5BBQ is between Tuesday and Thursday. But I had read them all weekend and knew that A was up. I knew A was gone too. And Tuesday caught me up, actually being able to see stuff, to what I had read up to.
Being Sick, Yeah, Back To That Topic
So, Wednesday, I sleep until noon. I did wake up to call in sick. I gave up on western medicine and started taking the Chinese cough suppressant that i got in Guangzhou (which works a lot better than dextromethorphan). I watched some of Saving Private Ryan (also bought in Guangzhou) and then in the afternoon had to help Alison move her mom's car from the old house to the TDY place. I don't know what TDY stands for, but it's like for a few months while her new house gets finished being built.
But that's not all, I also took pictures of Alison's mom's old house which can be seen at my pbase site while the Mr. Rooter guy fixed the leak in the garage and the new surprise, a busted pipe in the kitchen.
Now, before you think "Aaarhg!", it was just the U shaped trap under the sink, it wasn't spewing water or anything. But it had to be fixed, say, before the Walkthrough at 5:30. That was taken care of quickly and easily.
Thursday(Today)-ness
Sleep till noonish, wake up because Alison and her mom, now that the closing is over, are coming by the house. It was going to be us eating at Cracker Barrel, as both Al's mom and I are craving veggies since all this chaos is upping the fast food eating lately. But then it turned into Alison and I taking the Miata to the Camry so that we could take the Focus to the Ford dealer since it seems that the transmission is crapping out on us.
Yes, more random crap. The Focus is acting like it's low on fluid, but the dipstick indicates that it's not. Also, the ATF smells fine, so I don't know what it is, and Ford won't look at it before Monday since they are backed up in the transmission department. This is the first Ford I've ever owned, but I've never had a dealer say that they had so many of their crappy cars needing the transmission fixed that it would be at least three work days (they're open Saturday) until they could get to it. Man, I sure like Mazdas.
After that, I went to the doctor at 2:45 and Dr. Conway pumped me full of 'roids. I need to bust out the Bowflex...get HUGE! But, alas, I'm just tired tired tired. I will go in to work for a little while tomorrow. There are some things I need to do. I would have mailed out all that stuff on Tuesday if I had known that the crud was going to drag me down again. But now, I have not only the 'roids on my side, but also one of those new Trek-like 3-pill Z-packs. Z3? 3-pack? In any case, I should be right as rain by Monday.
Big Brother 5
Ahem: OMFG! LOL! Holly is Pwned! 7 to 1. Jase Zoolander needs a new "Cuddle Monster". Eew, just saying that makes me need to brush my teeth afterward. Bleh.
