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I hope you get better quickly.
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*huge hugs*
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Thanks..........and I hope soon? Now I have crap leaking out of my skull. I'm betting sinus infection, +1 for agonizing pressure. Urgh."I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
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Sinus infections suck big time. Especially when they are viral ones so antibiotics make no difference. Have you tried hitting it with enough capsacin to make you eyes water and your nose run? If I get things hot enough that gets things draining for me and the pressure goes down fairly quickly.
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Unfortunately capsacin tends to lend me in a hospital bed. I nearly choked my self into unconsciousness last time Mark cooked three (THREE) jalepenos in the kitchen. The capsacin oil that went into the air from the pan I walked through and ended up outside in the yard trying to choke air into my lungs. Literally.I'm going to do some research- between the two of us (we both have this) we have about 20 bucks to our names at the moment, so no way we can afford a clinic. It's still got one of my ears completely clogged and is starting to settle into my lungs, his is as well, and his throat burns. There has got to be something besides antibiotics we can do to alleviate this a bit until we can get cash for the clinic."I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
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You're very sensitive to particulates in the air, Dar. I recall other similar stories, but with perfume.
I have never found that remedy to work, myself. Terre and Jim helped, too. I ate a whole habanero pepper while writing on the forum with Jim. He had said: a thin slice or two. After a whole one, I was still waiting for the crying to start...but I have a titanium mouth. :^\ So, YMMV.
No, I will not try eating a Ghost Pepper. That's just silly.
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GRIM said:
Unfortunately capsacin tends to lend me in a hospital bed. I nearly choked my self into unconsciousness last time Mark cooked three (THREE) jalepenos in the kitchen. The capsacin oil that went into the air from the pan I walked through and ended up outside in the yard trying to choke air into my lungs. Literally.
I'm going to do some research- between the two of us (we both have this) we have about 20 bucks to our names at the moment, so no way we can afford a clinic. It's still got one of my ears completely clogged and is starting to settle into my lungs, his is as well, and his throat burns. There has got to be something besides antibiotics we can do to alleviate this a bit until we can get cash for the clinic.
Oh! My doctor recommends using the NeilMed sinus rinse system for treating both allergies AND sinus infections. I do have issues with both. I swear by it! A combination of antihistimine (Claritin) and sinus rinse does the trick. It's kept me from getting bronchitis these past two years' flu season.
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Nanobot said:
You're very sensitive to particulates in the air, Dar. I recall other similar stories, but with perfume.
I have never found that remedy to work, myself. Terre and Jim helped, too. I ate a whole habanero pepper while writing on the forum with Jim. He had said: a thin slice or two. After a whole one, I was still waiting for the crying to start...but I have a titanium mouth. :^\ So, YMMV.
No, I will not try eating a Ghost Pepper. That's just silly.
Perfumes are what gets to me the most. Peppers only work if you don't have a titanium mouth. I can only handle medium to the low end of hot stuff. As a result habaneros sometimes help.
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Good morning. :)
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Good morning, all! Got to hurry and get ready for work (slept in this morning XP)!Dar, hope you feel better soon! We're frequent sinus infection sufferers and they are never fun. Matt uses the NeilMed Nan mentioned and swears by it. Might be worth checking out?
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Good afternoon. :)
Soon it'll be eye & nose burn season here. The chile harvest at the village of Hatch is starting (with weather slowdowns as usually happens) and when their harvest finally ships it'll be time to start roasting 30lb batches outside the store. Two batches at a time in fact.
Meanwhile a store in Clovis has apparently decided to start roasting what is probably California grown long green chile so people are already asking us if we have Hatch chile.
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Good morning. :)
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Hey ho... Happy Friday! :D
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Good morning. :)
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Good morning. :)
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Good morning.Feeling a little better, I can walk without listing. Not coughing so much. Headache is a dull throb. Still can't hear out of the left ear. Right side is thinking about revolting. Using apple cider vinegar/water 1-1 mixture to help (You drop some into the ear, lay for five minutes then switch sides to drain it. Then gargle with the rest of the mixture. Sterilizes the outer and inner ear.) which it has, to an extent.Still-so VERY sick of this. Heh."I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
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Can't believe it's Tuesday already!
My newly-re-Windozed computah is slowly getting put back together. Poser, check. Pboost Virtuoso, check. (Epi said one gets "male sexual enhancements" when one Googles Pboost, not a Poser utility - hee! ) Photoshop, check. Substance Designer, Painter, and Bitmap2Material, check. Modo, check. Zbrush, check. Looks like I'm ready to roll again!
Still to go - Vue, etc. I'm finding that although the registry stuff got zapped in the Windows 10/new SSD install, most of the programs just want me to re-register--because I keep my programs on my D: drive RAID, not on C:. YAY! This is an important little fact, eh? Another good reason for not putting programs on the OS drive.
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LOL- you've got quite a bit there. I can only imagine what I'd have to go through to do the same. Urgh. Nice tip- I saved all the registry info on a .txt file so if I have too, I can do the same thing. I have Poser 10 and DS 4.8 on the hard drive, everything else (I think) is on the external. Eventually, I'll do a clean sweep from factory settings and have to do the same thing. I do that every three or four years if I have too."I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
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This was my four-year re-do, I think. And the larger C: drive sure has helped. No more sitting and waiting while the page file stuff cranks along trying to swap out of a teeny amount of space left.
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Good afternoon. :)
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Good morning. :)
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Good morning. :)
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Good morning. :)
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Poor Terre. Holding down the fort herself. At least the smiles are getting a workout! Good morning to you, too.
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Sneezy morning here. Just went to the store and all the chile roasting had me sneezing almost constantly. I think it's finally stopped.
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*hugs*
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*applies Zyrtec*
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Yesterday was one of our mega-humid days locally, especially just after a rather mild rain shower. Had to be 90% plus (it happens). Every time that happens (heat plus humidity) I thank my stars I'm not in the Netherlands, land of No Air Conditioning, in my formal livery working an outdoor wedding. Again. Formal livery at 80F is *miserable*.
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Just because we needed a cap picture.
Cat plus cardboard boxes plus found a clean blankie = happiness. Ah, messy living space.
ETA - the cats have been enjoying the box in which the Maingear came back to me that I've delayed cutting up that cardboard monster. Yes, it is as high as the dining room table. How I got that thing into my car I'll never know.
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Isn't there always a cat watching?
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Cute furries. :)
Red will be going to the vet in a little bit. Time for his shots.
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Good morning. :)
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Good morning. :)
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Adorable fur-babies, Nan! Matt's been working on selling Transformers and Dagon insists on being on top of those shipping boxes too. XD
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*snicker*
But isn't having fur in you face helpful?
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The funniest bit is when Madhava (the seal point boy) is trying to beam thoughts into my head and mind control me. He STARES so hard! And then I still don't get it. Or say, "Yes, Master" and go off to do something else. BWAHahahaha.
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*snicker*
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He managed to herd me downstairs to fill their dishes. Now he's off in a corner of a house giving editorial comment. "Mwow Ooo-ooo whoah row row..." etc. He makes such curious noises.
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LOL They're always good at that. Dagon makes those noises sometimes too, but he's usually in a panic because he can't find anyone and we have to yell "Dagon! We're in here!" or go get him. He seems to have abandonment issues.
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Good afternoon. :)
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Good morning. Cat funnies: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/06/cat-stories-weirdos-feline-oddity
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Shanarah said:
LOL They're always good at that. Dagon makes those noises sometimes too, but he's usually in a panic because he can't find anyone and we have to yell "Dagon! We're in here!" or go get him. He seems to have abandonment issues.
And I've read (UK scientist did cat research) that cats don't have abandonment issues the way dogs do. Or humans. They just aren't wired the same, to feel that we're a safe zone for them. But maybe they get into an empty corner of the house and forget where they've put us?
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My partner Kay said to the "no safe zone" article about cats, "This means they don't love you!" I believe they can and mine do, but they aren't human, so it's not quite the same. We do share much with other mammals, so it's not utterly alien--the way snakes just don't go that way--but they remember us and they miss us when we're not around.
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Good morning. :)
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Nanobot said:Shanarah said:LOL They're always good at that. Dagon makes those noises sometimes too, but he's usually in a panic because he can't find anyone and we have to yell "Dagon! We're in here!" or go get him. He seems to have abandonment issues.
And I've read (UK scientist did cat research) that cats don't have abandonment issues the way dogs do. Or humans. They just aren't wired the same, to feel that we're a safe zone for them. But maybe they get into an empty corner of the house and forget where they've put us?
Regarding cats, safe zones and abandonment issues -- I really must question that UK scientist's research. I have encountered all manner of cats in all sorts of situations and there are actually some that do indeed show every indication of becoming anxious or agitated when their chosen human is absent for more than their comfort zone amount of time -- my former cat being one of them, actually.
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Our cats (present and previous) are/were upset when I leave the house. Cat learned after a few years that it was OK and stopped begging Jim to go find me. Red is now going on five and sometimes still does so.
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Well, I can tell you that both of these cats do all the things the vets say no cat will do, so I'm not sure his or her research applies either. XD But I'm with Wayii on this one. Dagon is probably the neediest cat I have seen in my life. He's ok if we're just gone during the day, but any longer than that and he thinks we're not coming back and panics. This goes on even when we've returned home for a day or two afterward. He was a declawed stray when Matt got him from a coworker, so I'm not sure he wasn't actually abandoned by previous owner(s). We joke that he has the memory of a goldfish (it's always food o'clock to Dagon), but I really think something did scar him before we got him.
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It does sound that way. At least he has a good home now.
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You have to wonder what that UK guy's sample size was.
We started putting the kittehs downstairs and locking the door to the upstairs when then began bouncing on the bed at o-dark-hundred. Now they wake me up between 5:30 and 6:30 and want to go downstairs, have a food offering and then I shut the door. But by the time I wake up for the day, they really want me to come for them. Not, "I can go upstairs now" but "Mama mama mama!" and swirl around me.
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Shanarah! Rendo is advertising a good discount on Poser Pro 2014. https://www.renderosity.com/poser-pro-2014-sale-cms-17895
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