Friday snot blogging
My stoopid boss gave me his stoopid cold. Of course, when he had it, he worked through it. We do that. It’s the office ethic. Which is why we keep giving each other colds.
I would’ve done, but the sore throat woke me up at midnight. No sleep + bad cold + dual-cat vet appointment first thing = to hell with it, I’m not going in. I haven’t taken a sick day in I don’t know how long. Considering I slunk around the house miserable and sulky today, I now remember why.
Posted: August 3rd, 2007 under blogging, personal.
Comments: 28
Comments
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: August 3, 2007, 7:53 pm
Poor ol’ Weasel.
Then again, in a straight fight between a weasel and a few cold germs, I know who my money’s on.
Mind you, with weasels, I’d probably lay the same odds against, oh, I dunno… Chikungunya virus, Omsk haemorrhagic fever virus (one of my favourites, that one), Shigella flexneri.. umm.. come to think of it…
I’m starting a book for Weasel v. Grim Reaper….
100/1 says the pint-sized mustelid decks the bastiche in two rounds.
Comment from Pupster
Time: August 3, 2007, 8:23 pm
Sorry to hear you are feeling poorly. Nyquil is the only ‘upside’ of being sick…I just wish I could stay awake long enough to enjoy the effect. 30 minutes after Niquil, down goes Pupster.
Comment from TattooedIntellectual
Time: August 3, 2007, 9:26 pm
Eucalyptus and pepperment essential oils in some sort of aerisolizer-type thing is perfect for clearing sinus etc. If you decide to go that route, please dilute w/ water before putting in spritzer bottle (as in a couple of drops of each into lots of water–otherwise you’re going to stink for days).
Comment from Pupster
Time: August 3, 2007, 9:44 pm
Does it stink worse than a sick, sulky, miserable mustelid? I’m thinking not.
Comment from porkthebean
Time: August 3, 2007, 11:36 pm
What Tattooed said. And then plenty of liquids and some chicken noodle soup.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 4, 2007, 5:32 am
Liquids. Does Jack Daniel’s Green Label count? Because I tried that and it worked a treat.
Coincidentally, I threw out an unopened Nyquil (or Coma in a Bottle, as I like to call it) just last week. It had gone out of date and I hadn’t had a cold in ages. I love Nyquil, but too many doses in a row and I get all twitchy and trippy.
When I woke up, my skull was like ten pounds of mucus in a five pound bag. But I’m up and moving around and not feeling too grim. After the first nasty sore throat, I don’t mind colds all that much. They make me feel kind of floaty and high.
Or perhaps it’s the cure and not the disease that makes me feel like that…
Comment from Pupster
Time: August 4, 2007, 11:13 am
I’ve been told that Nyquil ages like a fine Scotch. The expiration date is just FDA propaganda.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 4, 2007, 2:10 pm
Check out Pupster’s link to TSG and really unfortunate t-shirt selections for your mugshot.
I think I recognize a couple of those hangovers…
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 5, 2007, 2:28 pm
w00t! I posted on Ace of Spades! He opened his blog to posts by commenters, and I threw one up there.
Of course, it was something I wrote for here. For once in my miserable life I wrote my Monday post on Sunday, and now I frew it away 🙁
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 5, 2007, 3:10 pm
You must have something you can dredge up, Pups. This isn’t exactly Battle of the Giants of Literature going on over there 🙂
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 5, 2007, 3:11 pm
Hm. That didn’t sound right.
Comment from Pupster
Time: August 5, 2007, 3:15 pm
The Dredge Report. Heh.
No, I’m not ready for the big stage. I’ll stay in off-off-off Broadway.
I’ve been doing some site maintenance today, messing with Themes and Sidebars. WordPress can be maddening some times. What was your impression of MU.NU?
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 5, 2007, 3:19 pm
Behind the scenes, it’s…umm…Movable Type, I think. I don’t know. I was so terrified, I logged in, pasted in my text, and booked it out of there.
I tried Blogger at the same time as WordPress and really hated it.
Comment from Pupster
Time: August 5, 2007, 3:28 pm
I started on Blogger, but I didn’t have any frame of reference to other blogging software.
I still don’t, really…just WordPress.
Comment from jwpaine
Time: August 5, 2007, 3:34 pm
I use Pivot on PB. It’s very flexible, but wants a bit more techno-coddling than some of the others. BTW: Don’t blame Pivot for the graphic atrocity that is PB’s layout. That is entirely my own abortion.
Comment from winston
Time: August 5, 2007, 4:05 pm
You are a sad, sad man.
Oops! That ‘s the start of an email for Jane Fonda.
Keep up the good work. Laffing myself silly at the moment. And I read the WHOLE site-including real estate for the estate on 4th with five columns or something like that.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 5, 2007, 4:13 pm
I like the cut of your jib, stranger. By which I mean your triangular fore-and-aft sail, set forward of the foremast.
Comment from porkthebean
Time: August 5, 2007, 4:52 pm
Maybe duct tape would work better than tight underwear.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 5, 2007, 6:03 pm
You had me going there, PtB. Then I realized you were responding to the post at Ace’s. Phew!
Comment from jwpaine
Time: August 5, 2007, 6:16 pm
Did I miss the memo? Is it Non Sequitur Day already?
Comment from jwpaine
Time: August 5, 2007, 6:19 pm
Oh, now I get it, PtB’s talking about the Weasel’s sly post over at Ace. Tight underwear. And the altogether-too-appropriately-named-in-this-case duct tape. Heh.
Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: August 5, 2007, 10:03 pm
Nice post Weasel! Also, remember – please not to peeing while in the Amazon river.
Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: August 5, 2007, 10:05 pm
GAH! My html-fu doth sucketh. Don’t pee while standing here.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 6, 2007, 6:33 am
Brrrrr.
Well, it was fun. I don’t know if it was a good idea for Ace or not, but I enjoyed myself and got a modest bump out of it. As a reader, it was too many posts and not quite good enough.
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: August 6, 2007, 4:44 pm
I like the cut of your jib, stranger.
Maybe duct tape would work better than tight underwear.
I am soooo confused — but I’ve been confused before. As a matter of fact, being confused seems to be getting more and more comfortable to me lately. Like it’s the norm, or something.
But I think Ace is rubbing off on Weasel or sumpin. Hmmm.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 6, 2007, 5:41 pm
McGoo! You have been missed. Seriously, we just thought we forgot where we’d left you.
Next time, we’ll pin a note on you.
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