you people = wrong.

Timelies,

Gronk. Had trouble sleeping again last night. Also wussed out after going through the cold to get home from work and didn't go to kickboxing. I just stayed home, did laundry and watched Tenchi Muyo.

Vents. Woofing vents. And I thought hearing my neighbor's tv through the bathtub was annoying.

As I was lying awake last night I realized it actually sounds closer to using a plunger, only with reverb because of the whole vent thing.

Today, she spent the day avoiding crying by steam cleaning the whole damned house, washing Goober's bedding, running the leftover food to the shelter and crying her eyes out in between.

Your mother has my sympathies. We only lost one pet while I was still living at home, but it was tough. When the others passed I had been living on my own for long enough that it lessened the impact.

But once it came time for the actual injection, it hit all of us hard... she was such a friendly, cheerful and enthusiastic dog.

She really was. I'm sorry to hear of her passing even though I only met her once.

Sounds like a recipe for mold spores, to me.

It could very well be. Thankfully I'm not allergic.

Allyson -- Try putting a couple of drops of olive oil in the ear, and keep your head tilted for a few minutes afterwards. I know, but really, try it. That happened to me a while back and it is the most maddening sensation. Olive oil helped a bit -- enough to keep me away from the nail guns until I could hear again, at least.

Olive oil helped a bit -- enough to keep me away from the nail guns until I could hear again, at least.

Geez, Strega! Don't you know to stay away from nail guns?

Doesn't that gigantic airbus plane sound like a disaster movie waiting to happen?

Olive oil helped a bit -- enough to keep me away from the nail guns until I could hear again, at least.

Okay. But if this is only to see if I'll do it so you can point and laugh and be like, ALLYSON IS A BIG SALAD HEAD I'm totally going to start prank calling you and giving your number out to crazyass Cordy fans.

If not, then thanks for the tip!

Argh! "Yes, I know one of our systems is down. That's why I sent out a public e-mail about it 30-frickin' minutes ago. Stop calling me!" (sighs) I hate working the help desk whenever we have a system problem. The phone rings non-stop with "Is t system x down?" and then once it feels like I've spoken to each of the 500+ people in the building personally I start getting the "Do you know when it will be back up?" calls. Check your damn e-mail. Everything I know is already in there. I will send out another e-mail when I know more.

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Try putting a couple of drops of olive oil in the ear, and keep your head tilted for a few minutes afterwards. I know, but really, try it.

If the olive oil is a bit warm, it's even better. Not hot, just a bit warm.

I'm stuck with something that I know should be easy (because the book treats it like it's an obvious and no-problem step from one side of the equation to the other, and all the other steps were easy-no-problem ones), and still, I can't solve it. Silly brain. Does the hivemind have any opinion as to why Bessel function of the zero order with the boundary conditions of zero and infinity should be one? How is the diverging being dealt with? Should it be decorated with glitter? If it had hair, which color should it use? Sigh.

Sorry, Nilly. This particular component of the hivemind is left going "Huh?" and blinking dazedly.

Nilly, the answer is x = blue.