Oh, Lee. Yuck. Clean it out with hydrogen peroxide or alcohol, or something.

Luckily it doesn't hurt that much. I did clean it though.

Cindy -- no, but I will now.

Cindy - -you're a genius. I tried the hot water again and it works.

Apart from the silly bow at the bottom, which I would get rid of, what do people think of these boots: [link] ?

Slept until 9am. Awesome. Alas, still sleepy from too much sleep. May never wake up. Am terminally lazy. Have not even unpacked from F2F. Am too lazy to sentence properly.

It has now occurred to me, several days later, that the reason I've been ready for bed around 9-10PM the past couple days is not merely left-over F2F exhaustion, but the fact that I'm back on the upped Paxil dose.

I'm always sleepy around 9pm. If I don't then go to bed, I'll be awake until 1. I told my boss, I'm chewing at the bit for the department to start with telecommuting (Sept., they say) so that I won't have to mess up my sleep schedule with work anymore.

Having once in adulthood been propositioned by a guy who looked like him, I can easily say that any charms homeslice might have had were irrelevant, because no freaking way.

Hm. I believe we've found a good way to ward off the unwanted attentions of an insistent suitor. "I'm sorry, honey, you're great but you look just like my dad/mom. I mean, I just can't, you know!"

Lee, I like the boots. I even like the silly bow.

My theory on the water heater thing is that when it's been quiet for a couple hours, the hot water congregates on the top of the tank, where the thermometer is, leaving a pool of cooler water at the bottom, where the intake for the shower is. If you run the (not) hot water briefly, then all the good mixing and heating up occurs and you have a good amount of hot water coming through. At least it seemed to work this way with the old water heater we had....

Crap. I missed my bus. Now I gotta wait an hour, and then I gotta walk instead of ride all the way around to the stop.

Cindy - -you're a genius. I tried the hot water again and it works.

Nah. I've just lived in a lot of old houses. Scott calls it 'putting in a request'. Going off what Theo said. Running the water for a minute lets the heater know it has to get back to work. It's probably sat warm enough all night, that the thermostat didn't trigger it to re-heat the water. But once you draw some off, the tank is too cool, and it triggers the heater to start back up.

Cute boots. It looks to me that the objectionable bow is just the way they have the laces tied. Also, I think you are in not much danger from an accidental needle stick but there might be something you should get tested for in case Ozzie has something transferable. But I think even with needles known to have been exposed to infection the chances of transfer with one accidental stick are pretty low.

Hummingbird, yay!

Hot water, also yay. The vagaries of when you get hot water and when you don't are beyond me.