I tend to think that I always act my age, just not necessarily my current age.
Or, in other words, my inner child has escaped and is out and playing in traffic. Infrequently, my inner adult peeks out and says something like "umm, do you _really_ want to do/say that?"
Happy New Year!
Adding on to the tips for keeping warm, let me recommend a few strategies.
Liner socks. I hate wearing shoe or boots. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I survive in Birkenstocks through most of the winter (when the snow is less than 5 cm deep) by wearing wool socks. When the temperature dips below 0C, I put little thin cotton socks on under the heavy wool socks and my feet, and by extension the rest of me, stay a lot warmer than they otherwise might.
I also wear home-made fingerless gloves under mittens.
And, even the flimsiest of scarves wrapped around the neck, acting as a muffler, can help keep in heat.
James D. MacDonald --
We're just f***ing doomed here.
I weep (I drink) and I contemplate where else I can go.
Karl Rove? Words aren't sufficient to express my disgust.
I've had that weird link thing happening on and off for some time now. It seems to happen when the page doesn't load completely _and_ there are some errors in loading. It was happening a lot today.
I'm running Safari 1.3.1 (v312.3) on Mac OS X 10.3.9.
The Washington Post had a headline (now not visible at their web site) something like:
"Thousands Wait for Relief, while White House Shifts Blame".
Kinda says it all, no?
On a different thread, there's mention of NPR replacing Daniel Schorr. I might suspect that he's actually retiring. After all, he is in his late 80's, IIRC. (Wikipedia says he was born in August 31, 1916, so that makes him 89 today.)
woofp! lots of things to contemplate here.
I am not a parent. I consciously chose not to reproduce my genes (schizophrenia on both sides, maternal parental generation, grandparent paternal generation, serious disfunctionality my generation).
But I have been a co-parent with a friend. She was a single parent with three children, ages 3, 5, 6. And one night a week, I got the children from school/day-care, took care of them, and the next morning walked them to school/took them to day care.
So, I have sympathy and empathy for people raising children. I can tell war stories (no s**t, there we were) about exploding mead bottles and other (now) amusing stories.
I also know people who parent their children in styles that I find, well, unacceptable. They do not control behavior and I find that distressing. It probably says much of me that the one time I was motivated to intervene was when I saw the younger child pummel their cat. At that point I did a "drive-by" and told the people, close friends of mine, that if I saw that behavior again, I would extract the cats from their house. No right of return. The family modified their behavior at that point.
As for public melt-downs? I intervene in an appropriate way, at least I hope it is an appropriate way. Grocery stores? I endeavour to distract the child. Restaurants? Well, I mostly go to places where children are welcome, Vietnamese, Thai, Peruvian, Chinese. There, if a child has a hissy-fit, people just _deal_. And the child is distracted/removed from play/taken care of. And we all chip in.
Oh, and the children I co-parented? They all have functional lives, self-supporting and moving forward. The youngest has just had a child (November 2004).
When they stopped selling sudaphed in 96 tablet bottles, I hied myself off to the local herb shop and bought several ounces of cut and dried ephedra.
Now, when I am congested in the sinuses, I brew a cup of ephedra tea and drink it _slowly_. This lets me regulate dosage, as at the first sign of significant drippage I stop ingesting it. And it doesn't taste bad at all.
Of course, we don't have to let people know that several of the Ephedra species native to North America, are known as Mormon Tea, do we?
Personally, I plan on planting some around here as I suspect my access to the herb will soon be curtailed.
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