A vast majority of the books on my bookshelf have come from Half Price Books. I’ve even found a few with the names of some friends written inside of them. Apparently they enjoyed the book well enough to make sure people knew it was theirs. And then they didn’t and sold it to HPB.
I worked in a campus library. The things we found tucked into books ranged from the fun (a peacock feather!) to the rare (some currency from a former Balkan country that no longer exists) to the idiotic (a banana peel ) to the disgusting (not going to say more about that.) But lots of postcards, random photos - those were fun, and once a very sweet love note! We were sorry for the person who lost it!
@f00l You’re fine, just fine. I read that your Fort Worth, Texas red cedar pollen was high. I don’t know if it made it up to Tulsa yet, but my sinuses have been getting restricted necessitating medication and remedial moisturizing.
With all the fronts moving thru have made me achy and uncomfortable. But I can lay in my beautifully comfortable heated adjustable bed with the cats and catorigize it as recuperation.
So, I would recommend continuing bed rest and be sure to stay hydrated!
The pollen is vicious this week. Even to the point of headlines.
Way worse than last week.
I’m to the point of rotation Claritin Zyrtec and Allegra every 12 hours and I still have symptoms.
/giphy sneeze
Wish me a relative lack of misery!
Driving down to Austin/San Antonio shortly.
(The south central Texas Hill Country is the mountain juniper/cedar pollen epicenter.)
Rule of thumb for me:
From Dec to March (pollination season)
Cold temps: wind from the west or north. Not much pollen
Warm temps: wind from the south. Great allergy angst and suffering.
The pollen loads vary year to year. This year seems to be a bad one so far. Some years are so bad that hospital admissions around San Antonio spike during bad weeks.
When I have allergies, I cut huggies along the short edge in 1/2" strips. I roll the strips up and stuff one into each nostril (but only at home or when alone). When they dry out I do it again. This helps to reduce the amount of nose blowing that leaves the nose raw and in need of chapstick.
/showme Monster covered in pollen chasing human wearing gas mask and sweater that says “@therealjrn” .
It’s my sinuses on fire, my eyes bloodshot and itchy, my eyelids and surrounding skin area swollen, my body aching constantly with some shooting pains, constant headaches, and zero energy.
Antihistamines, ibuprofen, coffee, bed-rotting seem to help.
@chienfou Funny you should mention that. I just got a new set of tires for my 2003 Honda Civic. You seem to be a clairvoyant. Maybe you should consider a career in the gambling trades.
I’m alternating doses of Claritin and Zyrtec and Allegra plus ibuprofen when I’m achy. I’m taking an antihistamine every time it starts to bother me again, which is going to be maybe every 16 hours
It does help I would be just a horrible person feeling horrible without the antihistamines in the ibuprofen
@ironcheftoni
@ironcheftoni @therealjrn
/giphy awwww
@ironcheftoni Okay, I broke. When do I start glowing?
@ironcheftoni This is wonderful, but I was hoping for cash.
@ironcheftoni
/showme fairy with head of President Jackson putting $20 dollar bill into book.
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “fairy with head of President Jackson putting dollar bill into book.”
@mediocrebot Oof, you blew it on this one. Ruined the book and got the bill wrong. Oh, wait. I should have wrote “20 dollar” versus “$20 dollar”.
/showme fairy with head of President Jackson putting 20 dollar bill into book as if it was a bookmark.
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@mediocrebot Muuuuuch better.
A vast majority of the books on my bookshelf have come from Half Price Books. I’ve even found a few with the names of some friends written inside of them. Apparently they enjoyed the book well enough to make sure people knew it was theirs. And then they didn’t and sold it to HPB.
I worked in a campus library. The things we found tucked into books ranged from the fun (a peacock feather!) to the rare (some currency from a former Balkan country that no longer exists) to the idiotic (a banana peel
) to the disgusting (not going to say more about that.) But lots of postcards, random photos - those were fun, and once a very sweet love note! We were sorry for the person who lost it!
Unfortunately I seem to have e devolved.
Is the constant desire to bed-rot a form of self-care?
/youtube “we are devo”
@f00l You’re fine, just fine. I read that your Fort Worth, Texas red cedar pollen was high. I don’t know if it made it up to Tulsa yet, but my sinuses have been getting restricted necessitating medication and remedial moisturizing.
With all the fronts moving thru have made me achy and uncomfortable. But I can lay in my beautifully comfortable heated adjustable bed with the cats and catorigize it as recuperation.
So, I would recommend continuing bed rest and be sure to stay hydrated!
@therealjrn
The pollen is vicious this week. Even to the point of headlines.
Way worse than last week.
I’m to the point of rotation Claritin Zyrtec and Allegra every 12 hours and I still have symptoms.
/giphy sneeze
Wish me a relative lack of misery!
Driving down to Austin/San Antonio shortly.
(The south central Texas Hill Country is the mountain juniper/cedar pollen epicenter.)
Rule of thumb for me:
From Dec to March (pollination season)
Cold temps: wind from the west or north. Not much pollen
Warm temps: wind from the south. Great allergy angst and suffering.
The pollen loads vary year to year. This year seems to be a bad one so far. Some years are so bad that hospital admissions around San Antonio spike during bad weeks.
/image pollen
@f00l Yuck.
@f00l @therealjrn
When I have allergies, I cut huggies along the short edge in 1/2" strips. I roll the strips up and stuff one into each nostril (but only at home or when alone). When they dry out I do it again. This helps to reduce the amount of nose blowing that leaves the nose raw and in need of chapstick.
/showme Monster covered in pollen chasing human wearing gas mask and sweater that says “@therealjrn” .
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “Monster covered in pollen chasing human wearing gas mask and sweater that says @therealjrn .”
@cfg83 @mediocrebot Eek! Run!
/showme a dude named cfg83 cutting huggies into strips and putting them in his nose
@therealjrn Here’s the image you requested for “a dude named cfg83 cutting huggies into strips qnd putting them in his nose”
@mediocrebot lol, outstanding bot!
@mediocrebot @therealjrn Don’t knock until you tried it. Your nostrils will thank you later.
@cfg83 @mediocrebot @therealjrn
For me it’s not so much being sneezy.
It’s my sinuses on fire, my eyes bloodshot and itchy, my eyelids and surrounding skin area swollen, my body aching constantly with some shooting pains, constant headaches, and zero energy.
Antihistamines, ibuprofen, coffee, bed-rotting seem to help.
@mediocrebot @therealjrn I think I’ll make that my LinkedIn photo.
@cfg83
Good plan… If you are retiring soon.
@chienfou Funny you should mention that. I just got a new set of tires for my 2003 Honda Civic. You seem to be a clairvoyant. Maybe you should consider a career in the gambling trades.
We don’t have that kind of thing. We have MEMENTO MORI in our textbooks.
@therealjrn
Is misery somewhat improved if one has an explanation for it?
This is, for sure, the stuff from the Texas Hill country
Dallas is only a little worse than Tulsa
Thank you, @f00l. I appreciate scientific reasons to stay inside. I’ve been running a humidifier in my back room and it seems to help.
@therealjrn
I’m alternating doses of Claritin and Zyrtec and Allegra plus ibuprofen when I’m achy. I’m taking an antihistamine every time it starts to bother me again, which is going to be maybe every 16 hours
It does help I would be just a horrible person feeling horrible without the antihistamines in the ibuprofen
@f00l Oh pshaw, you’re not that horrible.
Give until it hurts
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“The More You Share, The More Your Bowl Will Be Plentiful”