I've never run across anyone with my last name in person, but there are a bunch of them on the internet. I actually found a guy with my first and last names who was born in the late 1800s, and married in the early 1900s. Scary how many old records are online.

benadryl still hasn't kicked in.

My eyelids and ear canals still itch.

Pfft.

I discovered today, using the autocomplete function to address a work e-mail, that the 5 people in my immediate department all have unique first names in the 40,000 strong company.

That's pretty damned unlikely, I'm thinking.

ita, what did you eat, or touch, that your mucous membranes are itching? That's scary shit.

Yeah, that's a pretty strong reaction to something.

That's pretty damned unlikely, I'm thinking.

You'd think. Now I want to play with the U phone book thingy.

My eyelids and ear canals still itch.

Oddly, the other night I saw the rare video for Wire's song "Eardrum Buzz" - which features a lot of people having itchy ear canals.

You folks have inspired me to check the Ellis island database. Our family has always had the "shortened" at Ellis Island story, about my Grandfather William Lipow whatever (lipowvitz? lipowvitizky?) Anyway I could not find Grandpa even using the soundex search. The thought occured to me - maybe William is a transliteration too. What is the yiddeshe for "William"?

It's either random, or something I ate. I waited before I Aveenoed, to see if the itching would reach my legs (it started face and torso). And it did.

I bet it was Blockbusters. It smelled of pee, and the employees were saying shifty stuff on the phone ("Well, you'll want to use common sense about when you return it.")

Either Blockbusters or the tortelloni. Everything else is same old same old.

Either Blockbusters or the tortelloni.

Hmm.....A place you went, or a thing you ate....it's a mystery.

I keep telling people about my itchy-throat reaction to cherries and avocado, sometimes, just in case they're with me the time I end up in the hospital. So far, so good.