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Jun. 5th, 2014
Yesterday afternoon I got hit with the COPD stick and really felt like crap. I slept for a little in the afternoon and sucked on my emergency inhaler at every safe interval. When I got into bed last night I was coughing and uncomfortable but remembered the Breathe Right strip and slept pretty well. When I got up this morning, however, I still felt like shit. That was about 2 hours ago and now I feel fine. Weird o but I'm very happy with fine.
There's an exhibit at the Bellevue Art Museum that I would like to see. They open the doors for free on the first Friday of the month. Driving there and parking is a PIA but the last time I took the bus, there was way too much walking and walking uphill but looking at the Metro Map tells me that possibly I did it wrong. So I'm considering a retry for tomorrow. I want to try it before it gets too hot and I lose the will.
Today there is swimming at 11 and that is it. There is no Mariner game today.
These are the kind of days when I find myself looking at companies that would be fun to work for. The latest is Staples.Com. They have opened up a technology/dev office a few blocks from here and look like they might be doing some really interesting stuff ... plus, imagine what their office supply closet must look like!!
The reality is that having a job would interfere with my swimming and doing nothing schedule. But, because I spend so much of my time flirting with the possibility, clearly I must have unresolved work issues. I still have very frequent work dreams - all really positive. It does not help that this neighborhood is rapidly growing back to what it was in 2000 when every inch of every square foot of real estate was crammed with tech jobs. The bubble burst and everybody left but now they are coming back and fast and looking for employees. It's so tempting. But, really, only theoretically.
There's an exhibit at the Bellevue Art Museum that I would like to see. They open the doors for free on the first Friday of the month. Driving there and parking is a PIA but the last time I took the bus, there was way too much walking and walking uphill but looking at the Metro Map tells me that possibly I did it wrong. So I'm considering a retry for tomorrow. I want to try it before it gets too hot and I lose the will.
Today there is swimming at 11 and that is it. There is no Mariner game today.
These are the kind of days when I find myself looking at companies that would be fun to work for. The latest is Staples.Com. They have opened up a technology/dev office a few blocks from here and look like they might be doing some really interesting stuff ... plus, imagine what their office supply closet must look like!!
The reality is that having a job would interfere with my swimming and doing nothing schedule. But, because I spend so much of my time flirting with the possibility, clearly I must have unresolved work issues. I still have very frequent work dreams - all really positive. It does not help that this neighborhood is rapidly growing back to what it was in 2000 when every inch of every square foot of real estate was crammed with tech jobs. The bubble burst and everybody left but now they are coming back and fast and looking for employees. It's so tempting. But, really, only theoretically.
My ears are so last century
Jun. 5th, 2014 01:48 pmI never have loved earbuds. To be fair, I wasn't that wild about holding a transistor radio up to my ear either.
Today was a perfect example of my issues. I use a waterproofed iPod Shuffle in the pool with a special waterproofed short cord set of earbuds. Today, I was having trouble hearing the music. I could make out what it was, but it sure wasn't clear. I pulled out and repositioned the earbuds a half dozen times. Then, for no reason except desperation, I reversed them. I moved the one in the right ear to the left, and vice versa. Problem solved!
I pent the rest of my swim pondering this. I've been using these earbuds for nearly a year and never knew there was a right/left. Why have left/right earbuds anyway?? My ears are the same. Where they live on my head is different but that shouldn't make any difference in the sound?
Then as I was ending my swim, the thing told me I was nearly out of battery. Kind of curious cause it usually lasts longer than this but what.ev.er.
I get home and with good light discover that there is no label on the earbuds. They do not say left or right. I stuck them in my ears and switched them back and forth and could not tell one bit of difference. And.. the battery was 75% full.
WTF??? It's a sad day when your player and earbuds fuck with you.
Today was a perfect example of my issues. I use a waterproofed iPod Shuffle in the pool with a special waterproofed short cord set of earbuds. Today, I was having trouble hearing the music. I could make out what it was, but it sure wasn't clear. I pulled out and repositioned the earbuds a half dozen times. Then, for no reason except desperation, I reversed them. I moved the one in the right ear to the left, and vice versa. Problem solved!
I pent the rest of my swim pondering this. I've been using these earbuds for nearly a year and never knew there was a right/left. Why have left/right earbuds anyway?? My ears are the same. Where they live on my head is different but that shouldn't make any difference in the sound?
Then as I was ending my swim, the thing told me I was nearly out of battery. Kind of curious cause it usually lasts longer than this but what.ev.er.
I get home and with good light discover that there is no label on the earbuds. They do not say left or right. I stuck them in my ears and switched them back and forth and could not tell one bit of difference. And.. the battery was 75% full.
WTF??? It's a sad day when your player and earbuds fuck with you.
162 sucks remaining
Jun. 5th, 2014 03:35 pmI am grateful that there is such a thing as an easy to use inhaler that works when and where I need it.
BUT this is 2014. This thing holds 200 sucks. And ZERO ways to figure out how many sucks are left. Really? Apparently the old float in water trick does not really work. After it is out of medicine, it still sends out puffs so you could happily suck on this forever and with zero benefit. Other than manually counting, there is no way to track. At a minimum you'd think they'd provide a label you could write on and do hash marks. But, no.
I have had inhalers that included counters and there are, according to the internets, sleeves with counters on them that are universal but no way, I can figure out, for me to lay my hands on one. There is one gizmo that sits on top but has very mixed reviews - actually more negative than positive - costs $40 and even the marketing says that it will not last more than a year under the best circumstances. WTF?
This red counter is a counter that you slip onto your knitting needle to count rows or stitches. $3. The rubber band I got off a bunch of bananas.
Better than nuthin.
