Morning Farm Report

In the 50's if you turned on the TV at 4 am (we got channels 2,4 and 7) you'd be watching the Morning Farm Report. There were still a lot of big farms in the NYC broadcast market area. I think now it works like this:

7 am Morning Show
6 am Early morning show
5 am Effing early morning show
4 am infomercial for Ronco ear and nose hair trimmer

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The woozy effects of the drugs (taken at midnight) seem to have worn off. The cough is still there but it is less frequent and less urgent. My side still hurts when I cough, but I'm able to sleep on either side now.

Domino continues to curl up close enough for me to pet her. Pumpkin continues to sprawl across the couch, and yells at me when I pass by.

Note to self: Jasmine tea, even with 2 tsp honey, is too sharp, too rough.  I wish I had some of the Chengdu jasmine tea left, that's a lot smoother and smells wonderful.

For now, back to mint.

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BTW, I'm not up because I can't sleep. I slept very deeply for 90 minutes at a time this morning.  I'm up because I wanted some tea, needed to refill the vaporizer, and  I'll also blame the drugs for affecting my decision making skilz. :-)

Quickly, Before The Narcotics Take Over

The new pain killer + narcotic cough medicine were way too strong in all the wrong ways. The pain killer dulled my thinking, but only lowered the pain in my side by about 25%. Which allowed the long-time arthritis pain in my knee to come to the fore again. The cough medicine did not stop me from coughing, but it also fogged my brain. My last dose of these was 6 am, it was 11 hours before my head was clear again.

The allergy and antibiotic pills seem to be doing their jobs, though.

Watched both playoff games, but somehow don't remember much. **

Was feeling well enough to meet Janice @ Starbucks at 6. The Starbucks app says it is open till 8 Sundays, but the sign on the door says 6:30. They kicked us all out at 6:20, rudely, claiming there was a district staff meeting.

Stopped at the store to get Ben Gay-like generic goop for my side. Also got a pizza and donut, which was dinner. 

**Denver won, thanks to Tim Tebow becoming a one-man offense, and badly injured Roeth???berger refusing to set his ego aside and let the backup QB win the game for the Steelers. Tebow seems to have learned the important lesson that it is not appropriate to praise Jesus every time he opens his mouth to answer a reporter's question. Maybe he has been reminded that there are Christians on the other teams too.

The cough syrup I took an hour ago is getting a grip on my brain, so I'll end here, feed the cats and go to bed.