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Lurker here. Chad Orzel #48: you can buy acidophilus and other yogurt bacterias in liquid forms, flavored, and also in chewable tablets, also flavored, in most organic food stores like Mrs. Green's. You can also get tablets in the vitamin sections of most stores but I don't really trust them. Hope this helps.

Argh. I posted on the last discussion what I should have posted here. Now what?

They're not wrong about there being (currently) a drought of good sci-fi and fantasy right now, but this too shall pass. However, I find myself reading what I call Gothic Horror Fantasy--Laurell K. Hamilton, Jim Butcher, Simon Green, and lighter stuff like MaryJanice Davidson, and Charlaine Harris. (Please, don't laugh me off of this blog stuff, because I've just found it and it's fascinating!) I think that part of my problem and maybe other people's too, is that we were brought up in a world with a Bright Future Just Ahead, and it hasn't gotten here yet. What has gotten here is far worse sometimes. I wanted to go into space when I was a child, and live in a space station. It was Going to Happen Any Minute Now. Ha. I am rather disapointed with the way it turned out.

Regarding things to drink, flavored, or with potassium etc, there is a company called Alacer which makes Electromix. I don't really like it, it comes in lemon-lime flavor which I don't prefer, but as an electrolite beverage it's not horrible. The same company makes something called Emer'gen-C which some of you may have heard of. Also, there is a water called Le*Nature's which also has electrolites in it and if you can actually find it, is a lot cheaper than Smartwater. Why did they stop making flavored water, and make that nasty Fruitwater instead? Anyway, no endorsement implied of either of these, and web sites are available for both, neither of which I've been to. Oh, supposedly the Le*Nature's Ice Water comes in at least lemon flavor, but I can't find it here (45 min from NYC), so who knows. Also for those of you with kids, anytime your kid comes home hot and sweaty and cranky from somewhere, a juicebox and 5 minutes sitting down usually helps--even if the child is as old as 8 or 9. Even up to that age they can't tell if they are thirsty, or in the case of mine, are too stubborn to drink something. Best to just hand it to them before they can object. Sorry I go on and on, apparently that's my nature. I hope this helps some of you.

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