*grump*<\/p>\n
I used to get colds very rarely–and I still never get the flu. But since I left the Job From Hell at the pesthouse, er, shelter, my immune system hasn’t been getting challenged as regularly. Your immune system is like everything else, use it or lose it! I’m just way too isolated these days, working at home and still having very little social life (I’m trying to improve that, though!). So, when I go to conventions or hang out with people these days, I tend to get a cold. Nothing serious, just enough to be damned annoying. The most bothersome thing is that the colds make me retain fluid and feel all bloated. I actually was coming down with this one before 3Pi-Con, so I can’t blame the convention for it. I probably picked it up running around with my sister and her crew. I had a slight cold after Boskone but not after Readercon.<\/p>\n
So, I’ve got this tiny little cold, not nearly enough to prevent me from doing anything at all, including workouts and mowing the lawn which I’m finishing today. It’s just enough to make me retain fluid, sleep even worse than usual, and feel cranky. On top of that, I succumbed to Cerridwen’s desperate and unceasing begging and let her go out a few times and now I have two patches of mild poison ivy rash on my right arm. I never learn!<\/p>\n
Today is the 11th anniversary of my vampire research website By Light Unseen<\/a>. It went live on August 29, 1997–the date given as “Judgment Day” in the second Terminator movie–and the rest is history. \ud83d\ude42 I didn’t mark this year’s anniversary with a whole slew of new articles like last year, but I did finally move BLU to its own domain a few months ago, so we continue to evolve!<\/p>\n All summer I’ve been puzzling over what wildlife was making a particular rasping call at night. I wasn’t sure if it was an insect or a vertebrate. I finally found out, because Cerridwen caught one (poor little bastard): some kind of frog! It seems odd, because there aren’t any bodies of water close by. But there must be a healthy population of these frogs because I hear them all night long in the summer. They’re yellowish, about an inch and a half long, and make a two-note sound: “rasp-rasp. rasp-rasp. rasp-rasp.” They’re loud, too.<\/p>\n I went to my dad’s last band concert for the season last night. They ran much later than usual because they were rained out so many times. “America the Beautiful” has been running through my head all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" *grump* I used to get colds very rarely–and I still never get the flu. But since I left the Job From Hell at the pesthouse, er, shelter, my immune system hasn’t been getting challenged as regularly. Your immune system is … Continue reading