Yesterday I said I’d weathered the poison ivy outbreak I noticed that morning. Someday I’ll learn not to tempt the Gods, the Fates, or whatever it is that rules over us. Last night I started feeling itchier, and the inflammation over my left eye started swelling. Woke up this morning with my eye completely shut….
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Someday I’ll learn. Two years ago I did some yardwork on the side of my house, got bit by something nasty, and ended up in the hospital for 4 days. Last year trimmed some bushes in the same place, broke out in hives all over, had to get a steroid shot in the ass. Yesterday,…
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Watched some of Rome this weekend, thanks to a few days of free HBO. I loved I, Claudius and I read Colleen McCullough’s books, and so far the show is pretty good. Some of the actors don’t look like the characters as I imagined them, but there’s lots of nudity and explicit sex and graphic…
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Let’s set aside the notion that Hurricane Katrina grew so large because Bush wouldn’t sign the Kyoto accords and global warming is making storms bigger. I don’t buy that, or at least I won’t buy it until actual scientists conduct actual studies and come up with actual evidence. Let’s also set aside the fact that…
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