I realize that I haven't posted anything in a while, and according to this page I read about how to have a successful blog that's a bad thing. Successful bloggers post regularly and on a predictable schedule. Also it said that blogs should maintain a consistent tone and not cover wildly divergent subject matter, so for instance writing about killer robots one day and Star Wars the next and politics after that is bad because it confuses these hypothetical "readers" and makes them less likely to come back again and again. Which means lower hit counts, which means you will never be a blog superstar if you keep this up, Mr. Banjo!
But I looked into it and I discovered that Blog Superstars don't make piles and piles of money and don't get to date movie stars, so I figured screw it. I'll keep doing what I'm doing.
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I had a four-day weekend over the holiday which is the first thing resembling a vacation I've had in a long time, so naturally on day one I came down with a bad cold that lasted the whole four days and then some. Mostly it consisted of a sore throat and a "productive cough", which is deceptively named because I didn't accomplish a g.d. thing all weekend.
Yesterday I went to the doctor (for something completely unrelated) and while I was there I figured I'd ask him about the cold-like symptoms. After looking in my ears, down my throat and up my nose, he told me my symptoms were consistent with an allergic reaction to something in the environment.
"Like Gamma Rays?"
"More likely pollen."
So I asked him if maybe I should be tested for allergies, and he suggested that I should do that when I wasn't presenting any symptoms, so there was less chance of generating a false positive. Which makes sense, except that it means asking an adult male to go to the doctor when he feels perfectly fine, so yeah, that's totally gonna happen.
Among the other general advice he gave me was to stay hydrated. "Hydrate" is the modern term for "drink a glass of water." A person my weight should hydrate seven times a day. That's a lot of hydrating! Coffee doesn't count. Beer neither. In fact, for every glass I drink of one of those, I'm supposed to hydrate an additional time.
If you need me, I'll be hydrating. Or in the bathroom.
Posted by flamingbanjo at July 6, 2005 04:45 PM"I am as constant as the northern star."
And I said, "Constantly in the darkness?
Where's that at?
If you want me I'll be in the bar... hydrating".
glad to see you back blogging nonsensically. Star Wars and politics are not necessarily unrelated topics.
as for hydrating, the general suggestion is to divide your weight by 2 and drink that number of oz. of purified water per day. i don't know about drinking additional oz. if you have a beer, but i DO know that if you're in for a day/night of marathon drinking (it happens to the best of us), drinking one glass of water between every beer/drink keeps you from getting too drunk too fast and also eliminates hangovers because you've pissed everything out by the end of the night.
Posted by: amy.leblanc at July 11, 2005 02:43 PM