I got a miserable cold. I keep a roll of paper towels handy just for the dripping. I haven't had a cold in a long time. This one caught me off guard. It wasn't a month ago that I got that flu shot at the VA. I thought that would have helped, but there is another factor at play. I took the last of a series of prednisone steroid pills this morning. Its my understanding that one of the side effects of steroids is that they weaken one's immune system, and that might be how this cold got a foothold on my body.
I've been using the sugar substitute Splenda to sweeten my coffee for a while. The quality of my coffee drinking experience has gone South substantially during this period, and I finally bought some sugar. Yesterday I noticed just how much better I'm enjoying my coffee these days. I got mixed up and put twice as much sugar as I would normally put in my cup, and was fairly amazed that putting more sugar in makes the coffee even sweeter. That doesn't happen with the Splenda.
Sometime it doesn't do any good for me to add my disclaimer here. Every few entries I explain that I don't know what the truth is. I just try to capture drifting thoughts with words and publish them on the internet. Language will undergo a radical change with the arrival of the WWW. Everything that possible could be said will be said here. Data mining programs are already at work cataloging this everything. Within a decade or so they'll publish this total output of man, and it won't take all that long to download your own copy of it. I'm just trying to make sure I contribute with my word salad.
I went out to my car to get something out of it. It's sitting in the sun. When i opened the door I realized that if I climbed in and sat in my car I'd get warm all over at the same time. So I did. I got a book of Sudoku puzzles I keep there and plenty of pens. I sat there and solved a medium hard puzzle until I started perspiring a little. What's a better sauna than a closed car sitting in the sun?
I made a slow cooker full of chili. It tastes so good I have to brag on myself a little. Damn, I'm a chili making fool! It's all I'll eat for the next four days or so. I already had chili for breakfast along with a couple of hot peppers. Maybe the capsaicin in the jalapenos will kill these cold germs that are trying to cannibalize my old body.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
