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First snow! And first winter illness!
Oct. 31st, 2017 09:04 pmThursday night we got back from my annual trip to the National Institutes of Health, everything went pretty good, but the trip was cut short a day because they were going to do one thing and the plan got changed and they didn't have some gear in to accommodate the change, so I get to go back in January. Oh, well.
One of the constant joys of visiting NIH is they frequently want me to produce a sputum sample. And I CANNOT produce a sputum sample on demand. You can make me inhale a high-concentration saline mist for 20 minutes, it doesn't help. And again, this trip, no sample. We get home Thursday. Friday night I'm feeling a little "Am I getting sick?" Saturday I was definitely sick and immediately coughing up crud from my lungs. Yesterday fever of 101.5. Saw the nurse/practitioner (we don't have any GPs up here, plus she's known to and works with my immunologist) and confirmed that it had already moved in to a fully-involved sinus infection, complete with bulging ear drum. Ordered antibiotics, wife ran down the mountain and also brought back life-saving green chili stew from Casa de Suenos. Also a large container of their red salsa. Nectar of the gods.
Last night was miserable, waking up every hour or two to take a bit of water and go back to sleep. Somewhere along the line my fever broke and I'm doing a lot better, though still really cruddy.
This morning was interesting: I got up, looked out the back yard, and it was snowing! Russet surprised me and said that they were expecting it to snow at the observatory over the weekend, but it didn't. Turns out they were a day off, not unlike the request for my sputum sample.
This is a stitch of three photos looking out my back door. It was all gone an hour later. Our house faces south, and the front had pretty much nothing. So you can see that I'm not joking when I say that I live in a forest on top of a mountain! But it was very nice getting to watch the snow fall.
Tonight Russet cooked up some Boolkogi from Trader Joe's, essentially Korean BBQ, along with some Asian friend rice, also from TJ's. Quite yummy. And we watched John Carpenter's They Live for Halloween. It's been 15-20 years since I had last seen it, and I think that will be enough time to pass before I need to see it again. Excellent social criticism on unchecked capitalism and greed, but still just not a very good movie.
One of the constant joys of visiting NIH is they frequently want me to produce a sputum sample. And I CANNOT produce a sputum sample on demand. You can make me inhale a high-concentration saline mist for 20 minutes, it doesn't help. And again, this trip, no sample. We get home Thursday. Friday night I'm feeling a little "Am I getting sick?" Saturday I was definitely sick and immediately coughing up crud from my lungs. Yesterday fever of 101.5. Saw the nurse/practitioner (we don't have any GPs up here, plus she's known to and works with my immunologist) and confirmed that it had already moved in to a fully-involved sinus infection, complete with bulging ear drum. Ordered antibiotics, wife ran down the mountain and also brought back life-saving green chili stew from Casa de Suenos. Also a large container of their red salsa. Nectar of the gods.
Last night was miserable, waking up every hour or two to take a bit of water and go back to sleep. Somewhere along the line my fever broke and I'm doing a lot better, though still really cruddy.
This morning was interesting: I got up, looked out the back yard, and it was snowing! Russet surprised me and said that they were expecting it to snow at the observatory over the weekend, but it didn't. Turns out they were a day off, not unlike the request for my sputum sample.
This is a stitch of three photos looking out my back door. It was all gone an hour later. Our house faces south, and the front had pretty much nothing. So you can see that I'm not joking when I say that I live in a forest on top of a mountain! But it was very nice getting to watch the snow fall.
Tonight Russet cooked up some Boolkogi from Trader Joe's, essentially Korean BBQ, along with some Asian friend rice, also from TJ's. Quite yummy. And we watched John Carpenter's They Live for Halloween. It's been 15-20 years since I had last seen it, and I think that will be enough time to pass before I need to see it again. Excellent social criticism on unchecked capitalism and greed, but still just not a very good movie.
