Damn nobody even writes "feel better, Heebie?"
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I see the Aussies are also moving their offshore refugee detainment center on Nauru to higher ground in PNG.

OP: Your swollen and sore throat sounds terrible. Make them take good care of you and make lots of soothing foods. Lots of soft or liquid things are sweet, so you might have them pick up a Kafir or other unsweetened yogurt, so you have something salty and sour to save your tongue from sweet overload. (Puddings and ice cream are delicious to have on hand - and pellet or shaved ice can nicely numb the throat and are smaller to swallow.)

Also don't be tempted to gargle with iodine or hydrogen peroxide or anything of that sort.

My niece got head, foot, and mouth disease. But it seems to have passed in time for Thanksgiving.

I'm sorry you're sick, heebie. I hope you're better in time for pie.

My in-laws have covid rn, but they're taking Paxlovid and fortunately seem to be okay. They'll have to miss Thanksgiving, which is too bad, but hopefully they'll come out of this unscathed and with some measure of immunity.

Now you don't have to hire the stealth vaccination special.

Anyway, I made two pies today and am currently finishing some onion soup using a new recipe that has leeks too.

Anyway, I hope they feel better soon. And heebie too.

The apple pie isn't very good.

Yesterday was really awful, because I was too uncomfortable to sleep soundly, even having raided the medicine cabinet. Today I've been able to sleep soundly most of the day, and I'm feeling significantly better.

I even filled out my American Community Survey from the Census Bureau on the last possible day! You would not believe how guilty I've been feeling over this stupid thing. I had sat down and filled out the first half a month or so ago, and then just stalled out.

I do have to fly tomorrow, so I'll wear a mask and hope that protects my fellow travelers from this nastiness.

Woo, civic responsibility!

For some reason, Adam Sandler is voicing a lizard while sounding like the dopey friend from Bob's Burgers.

This is everything I don't like. Animation, a musical, a lizard, Adam Sandler, the dopey friend from Bob's Burbers.

The guy from Bob's Burgers should sue Adam Sander.

I even filled out my American Community Survey from the Census Bureau on the last possible day!

I am directly grateful, not just citizenically, because the ACS provides so much data I frequently use!

I have covid for the second, if not third time. On the one hand, I was just at a major conference with hundreds of people and eating in crowded restaurants multiple times a day. On the other, I was re vaccinated in October so I'm surprised that didn't do slightly more to prevent catching it. Like last time, my main symptoms are sneezing, congestion, and some loss of smell. I'm also a bit draggy but honestly that's also likely the effect of conferencing. The plus is I get to lie in my room and avoid my MIL, but I'm going to be out out if I can't smell Thanksgiving dinner. It also sucks isolating from young children so I'm not doing the best job at that.

(Also btw I'm the only person I know who has sneezing as a main covid symptom)

June a year and a half ago I was the sickest I've ever been as an adult. Terrible sore throat, wicked cough. I was laid out for almost a month. It wasn't strep, covid, or the flu. They didn't test for rsv at the time so maybe it was that. Anyways it was orders of magnitude worse than my experience covid, which I caught in August that year.

*put out

Technically I don't think you need to isolate from small children when you have covid, but their parents may not appreciate my opinion.

Did one of you write the French Toast recipe with:

Dip bread in egg mixture and lay in butter.(not you-the bread!).

I'm just impressed that you copy-pasted from the side of a box.

The French Toast box?

I went with the joke anyway, yes.

The security guard at the gym is inside now. Either he got cold or I wasn't the only one making jokes about how the plan was to have the first person killed by a terrorist be a black guy.

Feel better Heebie! Do you use the numbing throat spray stuff? I never know what to think of that because my chemistry brain freaks out at the idea of spraying phenol in your mouth but it does feel good when you have a sore throat.

I admit that I gave up on the pee tape being found. But Trump just denied he was into golden showers, so it's clearly coming out soon.

Does anyone know where to find accurate information on the latest strain of Covid? Or medical findings based on fully vaccinated individuals with post omicron Covid? Everything in the popular health media is drawing on findings from Covid research in 2020, which makes sense when you think about publication and media cycles but not so much when you want an accurate snapshot on what Covid means today. Most stuff that isn't Covid denial seems to be closer to Web MD level fearmongering.

Also my sense of smell seems to be returning. The drawback is now I can smell that I haven't showered in four days.

Hope you're on mend. If not, try a hot whisky and lemon. If you are, try one anyway.

i caught something from my better half that starts out like a mild head cold & then suddenly wham 102° fever, just absolutely miserable. better half's fever broke after around 48 hours & he bounced back pretty quickly after that, so hopefully i only have 24 hours to go ...

Hope you feel better soon. At least you can use the downtime to read up on why Hall is suing Oates.

I'm about 9 days into a pretty unpleasant cold. Still coughing.

It's a good thing you don't represent Hall or Oates. You'd have had a busy week on top of the cold.

The young waitress at the bar has a Garth Brooks t-shirt. I'm not ready for that to be nostalgia.

33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUiFYWd6xNs

I am constantly forced to calm the olds. No, sixty people weren't killed in an explosion that was part of an invasion from Canada.

Anyway, I've always been confused when people talk about their pet going over the Rainbow Bridge. I thought they were sad because their dog went to Canada.

A Bentley can serve briefly as a plane.

If that was a stuck accelerator that is a terrifying last few moments.

That's Audi.

Maybe they fixed that? Have I mentioned how my grandmother confused the gas and the brakes and accelerated my parents' car into the post office. And then drove away without ever telling anyone?

If you don't take credit it's not proper terrorism.

My dad had to pay the damage.

The post master noticed.

Master of Posts?

My grandmother drove into lots of stuff. Learning to drive at sixty five is suboptimal if you value not running into things.

It wasn't terrorism but a KISS concert? That's about right.

Not my grandmother. The Canada thing.

Canada's invasion methods are more devious.

The BBC has footage of the car taking off and, good lord. No wonder there was nothing left of it but the engine. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-67504994

11, 16: We are also being counted this year, which is cool but also a little funny since we aren't the most characteristic of area demographics. I mean, there are a lot of same-gender couples coparenting children of other races and plenty of people for whom English isn't a first language, just I don't think any others where the specifics line up like they do for us. It was a little annoying to have to work out exactly how much we're paying in energy bills and so on, but I hope it will help someone figure things out someday. I also felt guilty about not doing it immediately, though I was six weeks or so ahead of heebie and can I guess feel better that they would have kept hounding me.

Yesterday was peak roid rage from my latest round of prednisone, hoping to knock out bronchitis before it becomes pneumonia. Since we didn't manage to keep the two post-Covid sinus infections from becoming bronchitis, I'm not sure how optimistic I should be. In many senses, my long Covid is mild, but it has also totally messed up my body in ways that will probably never recover and I'm not super excited about that.

We are also being counted this year, which is cool but also a little funny since we aren't the most characteristic of area demographics.

WE HEAR THAT A LOT.

50: So sorry about the long COVID. Those lingering things just suck.

50: Best wishes dealing with the bronchitis. That stuff is nasty.