I just read this paragraph in a Yahoo! news article:

For hitters, boning bats in the bathroom is not considered cheating. Corking, however, is. Guys bone their bats in broad daylight. When a guy corks, he does it in private. If you cork and word gets out, it's bad news. You're a marked man.

ION, I've been carrying around the recipe for spaghetti with mizithra cheese for about 15 years now...The Spaghetti Factory used to serve this as the "Homer" style, I don't know if they still do. Now that I'm living somewhere I can actually get mizithra, I made it for lunch, and it's...okay. I think I used to really like it.

Happy Birthday, JZ! Hope it's a great one!

Oh, Nilly. You were sick a long time, for a stomach virus. Are you able to drink and eat, now? I hope you get through the day tomorrow, more easily than you expect.

Thanks, Cindy. You're such a mommy (in the bestest way possible!), worrying and making sure I eat and drink. I'm usually horribly mommy-ish when it comes to making sure people drink enough and don't dehydrate, so I know where it's coming from.

I was able to eat all throughout the week. I felt bad whether I did or didn't, so there was no point in not eating. I did try to have only simple things, though, toasted bread and the like, so eating vegetables yesterday was like "hey, lettuce party in my mouth!".

Twice, when I was little, I had to be hospitalized, because I started to dehydrate. I couldn't hold anything down. Now I know many, many tricks to mitigate nausea, while warding off dehydration.

Oh, it takes much more than a virus to stop me from drinking water. Nothing short of a Jewish fast comes to mind, at the moment.

I was so sick I couldn't even hold down the water. In the hospital, they put me on an I.V., and then gave me crushed ice (they ground it up in a blender or ice crusher), which stayed down, when water wouldn't.

NILLY! I'm so happy to "see" you. I was just about to e-mail you to see how you were doing. I've missed you.

Hi Nilly, how's things? Sorry to hear you've been sick.

I was so sick I couldn't even hold down the water.

Oh, you poor thing. I know it's in the past and everything, but still.

crushed ice (they ground it up in a blender or ice crusher), which stayed down

I usually prefer my water as cold as possible (I love that temperature in which water is almost ice, but still not solid. It's like it has a completely different texture then), so maybe that helped, too, even if I didn't know it.

Cindy, are your children on vacation now?

vw! I just thought that *I* want to e-mail you - I have no idea how the new job is treating you.

Hey, billytea! It was a virus. I'm not sure I'd rather face a giant spider or something like that, but then at least it would give me more interesting answers for you. How are you doing?

[Edited because my post # is two consecutive numbers, made of three consecutive digits, each starting with four.]