Turns out I’m mildly anemic. I’m a little upset at myself for not noticing prior to now, but it’s been a hellishly busy couple of weeks. I thought I was just tired and hormonal, but I couldn’t focus or motivate myself. That’s not usual, which made me suspicious something else was up. Hoping I’ll feel a bit better with these prescription iron pills.
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Eat well before taking them.
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I was wondering about that, because I had to take iron once before, and it was supposed to be with food. But this one says an empty stomach, which is really hard since I eat all the time now. So I took it first thing in the morning, after the guy who wants to mow the lawn woke us up at 5:30. We’ll see what happens.
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The lawn guy woke you up at 5:30? Sounds more like he wants to meth the lawn.
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Well … yes. I might just go to a pawn shop and grab a lawnmower. Normally, people come by offering in the afternoon. I don’t want to have this occur again.
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If the building were on fire, it’s bad enough for smoke alarms to trap people in the building, with incapacitaingly loud noise, strobing, and/or beeping, but it’s worse for the alarm to mock people too, for being trapped by the alarm.
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I take a daily iron supplement, and I usually take it without food. I’ve haven’t had a particular problem with it. It’s a slow release tablet, though and it’s also OTC, not a prescription. Honestly, I’m not even sure what mine says regarding food.
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Huge storm came through up here. High winds and all that.
Lost power at 1:30 pm Friday.
They’re predicting I’ll have power back midnight Tuesday.
So that sucks.
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I kinda think it blows. I hope you see the humour in that.
If you’re anywhere near San Diego, you’re welcome to hop down to TJ if you have a sleeping bag. Plus, my water heater uses LP gas instead of electricity. Weather’s been a bit weird here, too, but I’ll always have hot water.
Bonus: Cats!
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That’s super sweet- thank you.
Sadly I live outside Boston. So. Yeah.
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Senator Tim Kaine and Senator Mark Warner require more information before your messages can be delivered.
Phone
They don’t even pretend to try to represent the rest of us…
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I finally gave up and gave McTurtle’s contact web page a totally fake persona to tell him he’s an asshole. It wouldn’t accept anything from any other state than Kentucky – even though he’s Senate majority leader and thus much more responsible (supposedly) to everyone in the U.S.
I suppose you can pay for a direct phone number. But it probably costs a whole lot.
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The point is, they won’t accept email from those of us who can’t use phones.
On another grinder:
Stabby stabby pain!
Like someone’s driving a knife into each ear!!!
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Ah, I didn’t get the point of your comment. Even on the email contact page they require a phone number, which of course may be deliberate, to filter out folks who don’t have a phone and therefore don’t count, right? 
I have a conservative friend who says all these new voting restrictions are good because “people who can’t be bothered to go through all the hoops to vote probably shouldn’t be voting anyway.”
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I don’t think they intend to filter out people who can’t use phones-- they may intend to filter out spam, or to collect numbers for gotv campaigns-- but the effect is to filter out those of us who can’t use phones.
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I guess I was thinking of the Literary Digest Poll.
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Sound level meter only registers 50 dB inside. But pain with 30 nrr quick protection is far worse than getting hit by a car at low speed-- 65 dB. Maybe because it’s stabby pain rather than dull pain.
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“lah” is also the response in Malaysia.
Seems like every country’s potential is brought down by the same weak link: humans.
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Is it possible you’re failing to bribe the right people? I don’t know anything about Singapore, but it sounds like the sort of situations where people end up getting a little ‘consideration’ for a little ‘expediting’.
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Mandatory software updates.
Mandatory software updates that are buggy.
Mandatory software updates that are buggy and cause you to lose a carefully-prepared lab specimen.
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