The issues du jour

[susandennis]

I sold the second DS Lite on Amazon.  But, of course, since it's me selling stuff, there's a problem.  There are two payments in my account but Amazon only sent me notice of one.  It appears as if one is set for refund BUT before I send off the goods, I want confirmation from Amazon or the buyer that that the payment is solid and they still want the thing.  So far.  Nothing.

Fortunately, I have 2 business days to mail it out which means I can wait until Monday.  So I probably will.  At a minimum I will wait until this afternoon when I have to go out anyway, back to the drug store to pick up the stuff for my face which they won't have until after 2 p.m. Yes, folks.  You now know someone who has dandruff of the face.  Isn't that special? 

I reverse-googled (ya know, like reverse engineering?)  from my prescriptions to find the name that the man doctor gave me for it:  Seborrheic Dermatitis.  And I found a nifty article complete with disgusting pictures.  It kind of skips over the How to Prevent it bit.  And the root cause (which, of course, I honestly believe is the combo of a dry wit and a sharp brain). 

I'm having a hard time with my Hamilton Beach Brew Station.  It makes up to 12 cups of coffee.  12 and 10? I got nailed.  Any number of cups under 10 and I can't get the right recipe.  Although I think I'm getting close.  I just tossed out the first try of the morning and am sipping on the second which is much better.  I don't like coffee that can walk across the room but I do like to be able to taste the flavor.  I drink my coffee black so I can't depend on sweetener or milk for taste.  Trial and Error.

I discovered Sudoku way back when and after giving it a shot or two decided that I wasn't at all interested.  Not at all.  Thank you.  Yes, I know it is wildly popular with smart and witty people like me but so is co-habitation and eating of vegetables and I'm not big on those things either.  Anyway, I have been living a nice Sudoku free life for a long time now.  Until I got this fucking DS Lite.  The only 'game' I got was Brain Age and once you do the daily exercises the only thing left is Sudoku.  So I did a couple and then a couple more. And then I figured out how to do them and finally saw the stupid patterns and now... of course... I'm hooked.  I could still get over it, tho.  I could.

My rental games might be here today, or tomorrow.  Hopefully. Because by Tuesday (next time the mail comes) I could be a gonner.

Time to get to work, I guess.

Comments

[jawnbc]

Cleanse, tone, moisturize (face and neck) daily

Moisturize (scalp) 2-3 times a week (bedtime, then you can wash hair in the morning)

Keep dry (feet). Wear microfibre or cotton sox

:)

[though I graduated from seborrhea to psoraisis years ago]

[susandennis]

Ok so you can confirm that it is caused by dry wit and sharp brain, right?

I have q's for the graduate.

1. How in the hell do you moisturize your scalp when you have shoulder length hair? Maybe it's time for a short hair do... hmmmm that's a serious thought... hmmmm

2 Feet??!!! feet??!! What do feet have to do with it? I rarely wear any socks.

I'm actually looking to graduate to something a little less than psorisis, myself. I need to google up those options. (thanks for the tips by the way)

[susandennis]

And what do you moisturize your scalp with?

[jawnbc]

feet sweat. wear some socks to draw off the moisture, but which won't make you sweat more. And/or powder your feet (medicated body talc--same as the foot stuff, half the price usually)

scalp: lanolin creme. A dollop in the hand, a splash of water to make it a creme. scoop out of one palm onto your other hand's fingertips, work in between the hair (wiggle wiggle)

does that make any sense?

[susandennis]

I'm all over your wiggle wiggle! Makes total sense. Thanks!

I'm still a little confused about the feet. I got no feet problems. I hate having anything on my feet - socks, shoes, anything. I don't care if they sweat but something's telling me that maybe you are mentioning this because sweating is going to spread this dandruff to my feet?

[jawnbc]

I offered the advice in case you got it on your feet...wasn't meant as a preventative. Sorry for the confusion--I didn't recall the specifics of your earlier post(s) on this.

[susandennis]

??? You aren't hanging on my every word???? Geesh. What are you going to do when it's time for the pop test?

Ha.

Ok, thanks. I'll keep my feet out of it. They will be glad to know that as long as they behave, they won't have to get involved.

Thanks for all your help and tips.

two days to mail

[henare.livejournal.com]

that means tuesday--post awful should be closed on monday.

Re: two days to mail

[susandennis]

I was thinking about ups'ing but your point is VERY excellent and, I believe, will serve for ups'ing as well. Surely I can get this wrinkle ironed out by Tuesday.

[legalmoose]

If you like puzzles, try Mario v. Donkey Kong 2, March of the minis. It's all stylus-driven action, you direct these little mini mechanical Marios around the screen using the stylus. Addicting. Also I love Animal Crossing: Wild World. It doesn't sound like the most thrilling game, but the game play is kinda fun (just turn off the animal speech noises; they're annoying).

[susandennis]

Excellent!! Thanks for the recommend. Those are two I would not have figured out were good to try.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

For me and Sudoku, it was being trapped in a doctor's office with a previously read magazine. I thought I was grabbing one off the top of the unread stack -- turned out to be the read stack. Argh!! An hour and a half later, I was ready to stab my brain with a pencil -- or work the Sudoku puzzle. Sudoku seemed safer.

[susandennis]

I have done that... picked up the wrong reading - thought I was covered only to get stuck and discover that I'm not. So annoying!

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

I have that. It's annoying, but controllable. It was worse when I was in high school or maybe I'm just not a hormonal teenager now. I used to use the shampoo, but now I have steroids. WHOO! My scalp is on roids!!!

[susandennis]

So you are totally willing to give up any hope of a professional sports career, right? I guess it's worth it.

What kind of steroids for your scalp? Man Doctor gave me triamcinoine acetonaide lotion to help the itching. I'm still not so handy with how to get it through the hair to the scalp but I am getting better.

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

I went on the steroids because the creams and lotions were a pain. I remember the best thing was bending over so you could get your fingers thru your hair. It's easier to get to your scalp that way.

And I don't want to be a total bummer, but this is something I have had since I was a kid, so it may not ever go away, but it can be controlled. I use betamethasone lotion which is actually an alcohol based liquid. Love the stuff and it's generic!

[susandennis]

is this a pill or a spray or what? and i'm not going to have it for the rest of my life. it's just too uncomfortable and a pain to fuck with so i'm just going to get rid of it. mind over flakes...

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

It's pretty much the consistency of rubbing alcohol and it comes in a little squirt bottle like an eye dropper. I only use it when the flakes get bad which is maybe once a month in winter. Flakes get worse in winter because it is dry. (That may be different because of locales.) But you just squirt it on your head and give yourself a scalp massage. Then you think the fumes are annoying for about 10 minutes and then you are done.

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

Oh wait! (I'm sleepy...forgive me.) I use the betamethasone for psoriasis which is a little different. I forgot.

[susandennis]

Ok, now you are just fucking with me. Go to sleep. You are flakey. Hahahaha

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

*snort*

Good one!

But try to get lotions because they are easier than creams. Creams are a bitch and a half which is why I loved the shampoo. Is it Nizoral?

[susandennis]

yup. nizoral cream for face. nizol shampoo and then the steroid lotion for the itching.

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

That stuff works. I also liked Nutrogena's t-gel shampoo. It has tar in it so it has a distinctive smell that I got used to and started to like. It will help with the itchies.

[kyrielle]

Hehe. Yay Sudoku! You might also want to try Kakuro. Dell Kakuro magazine's good for that because you get a range of difficulty.

Take it with a grain of salt - Kakuro's my favorite puzzle.

[susandennis]

Ok so I had to look that up. It's kind of sad when the Wikipedia explaination sails over my head!

[kyrielle]

It used to be called just "Cross Sums" before using the Japanese names became a way of popularizing puzzles. That name is pretty descriptive of what they are.

The wikipedia article is needlessly complex and technical-term-laced. I don't know who had the stick up where it didn't belong, but someone sure did. Talk about over-obfuscating a thing!

A cross sum looks like a crossword, except that instead of your across and down clues being words, they are numbers - the sum of the digits in that row or column (they're also put directly in the grid, which is a little different, but that's basically what they are). Only the digits 1-9 are used, and the answer to a given clue cannot contain the same digit twice.

So, for example, you know that 4 can only be 1-3 or 3-1. You can't use two because 2-2 would be a duplicate, and you can't use 0-4 because zeros aren't allowed. It's just simple addition, the tricky part is the logic to figure out which number goes in which box. Sometimes it's easy (if you cross 3 with 4, you know the 1 has to go in the shared box), but often it takes a bit more thought.

[susandennis]

Ahhhh that does sound interesting.. drat!

A recipe for coffee...

[gavin.livejournal.com]

Using a coffee scoop, try 4 semi-heaping scoops, plus one half of a scoop. For 5 cups, try two extra-heapy scoops.

Re: A recipe for coffee...

[susandennis]

So, how many cups is the 4 semi-heaping (10)? This whole thing is cracking me up. After all these years, I can't get it right! But, it sounds like to me I'm just not using enough coffee. Tomorrow morning, it's set for 10 cups and I just used your 4 semi-heaping scoops. Stay tuned.