#6 Terry: "Mets Share Hotel With Furies."
I must delurk to thank you sincerely for my first belly laugh of the weekend.
Perfect timing for me on these, as I've just begun catching up with the series.
What perfect ways to Wu my beloved.
Patrick, have you ever read (I know, I'm placing more reading atop an already teetering pile) Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero series? Mann's greased-rails GTD approach might help bridge the gap between theory and practice that you currently perceive with the original GTD.
As for the jury duty experience, I was called for petit jury in 2000, was dismissed during voir dire (insurance fraud case + parent involved in deposition for insurance = on the bricks before lunch), and am surprised I haven't been called since. Now actually would be the perfect time for me, being unemployed at the moment with a bunch of career-research reading to do.
'Tis the season, evidently, as I'm also down for the count with something that feels very much like flu. (Jim Macdonald's "Cold or Flu" post was of great comfort; my self-diagnosis will be verified in about an hour by my doc.) I wish you a speedy recovery, Teresa, and a safe and restful holiday season to the Making Light community.
I "woke up" this morning feeling like I'd spent the night in a human-sized clothes dryer. And I use quotes, because fever dreams kept me from achieving deep sleep. When I got my thoughts together, this was the page I knew I needed to check . . . at least once I felt confident enough to walk to the laptop. (Once my fevers get past a certain point, I've been known to pass out during physical exertion as simple as walking.) I feel fairly confident that this bug is a flu virus that somehow got around the vaccine I had back in November, and the first bug I've had since I began getting the shot in 2002.
During my last flu, I used the recovery time to blast through the first 2 seasons of The Sopranos. Now I've got Netflix to nurse me back to health. Hmmmm . . . Deadwood or The Wire?
My crowning moment with a double entendre: Years ago, I was introduced to a woman who worked at a tissue bank, primarily for bones and skin. I made a mental note of this, then waited until I met her again — had to be a good year and a half — and asked, after exchanging hellos, "So how's life in the skin trade?"
I see the graphic designer position I'd spotted last year during a stretch of joblessness is still up. I was tempted to at least send them a resumé, if only because their salary range had my last one crushed. I figured I'd be of great utility as the Bush Administration needed various disgraced Cabinet and White House luminaries Photoshopped out of official portaits. . . .
Looks like McCain still can't bring himself to look at Obama any more than he has to, if even that. From the Caucus blog @ the NYT:
"It was Senator Barack Obama who crossed the aisle.
"As the senators gathered to vote on the $700 billion financial rescue package on Wednesday evening, Mr. Obama walked over to the Republican side of the chamber to extend a greeting to Senator John McCain.
"He got a chilly response.
"While it took Mr. Obama several seconds to make his way over to see his rival, Mr. McCain barely pivoted his body as he took Mr. Obama’s hand for a handshake that lasted just a moment. The eye contact was just as brief."
Jeff Zelezny and Michael Cooper, Not-So-Secret Handshake
Other points: Obama had a long discussion on the Senate floor with Hillary Rodham Clinton, and addressed the chamber for 13 minutes. McCain did not speak.
#312 Suzanne:
Typical of many in the medical industry that choose preach their rhetoric about getting the flu shot, they neglect to mention a preservative found in some vaccines called thimerasol
My office gives free flu vaccines, and on the consent form, one of the check boxes inquires about Thimerosal allergy. Either consciousness of its presence, or CYA documentation, is growing; I don't know which, and I lack the background to enter the autism debate. All I know is this is the first employer in my 15-year work history to be wise enough to vaccinate for flu.
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