It's one of those hilarious vintage ads for a fairly useless product. Saw a Battle Creek Roller at a thrift and they thought it was to hang quilts on because of all the wood. If they noticed the power cord I wonder what they made of that?

But I live in dread of him developing a middle ear infection.

I got those several times a year when I was a kid. I think that, under current guidelines, they'd put ear tubes in a kid getting them that often, but back then, they just kept giving me antibiotics. The pink bubble gum flavored amoxicillin.

Zen thanks for the advice i'll get Afrin and see if it helps.

But I've seen the actual machines, so they did exist.

Yeah, I got to use one at the Air Force gym when I was a little kid. Didn't do much for my skinny little 8 y.o. body.

Bruises! My record was 42 at once, playing rugby. I get mini bruises on my forearms if I play volleyball. Most dramatic bruise I ever had was an entire ass cheek; my friend tackles me into the corner of a wall while fight/flirting. Then there was the time in high school when I had a bruise for months because I kept getting nailed right at the edge of my shinguard playing indoor soccer. It eventually pooled at my ankle, eww.

I can still feel my dent in the upper thigh from the dhow. In 2001, Mozambique.It looked like a Virgin Mary icon when the bruise came up, 4 days later.

I bruise if you blink at me. So that should be great if I ever do study krav.

Man, one of the side effects of spending summers fundraising by working with privileged white teens is that my fb feed is a never ending parade of engagement and wedding photos as the "kids" cycle through their life stages. I keep thinking, man are you still posting more wedding photos, but no, totally different couple. I'm just losing track because it never ever ends.

I bruise easily and I'm pale, so it shows. The most spectacular bruises I've had were mostly on my forearms.

#1 At our old office building the elevators would sometimes slam closed as you were getting on. One time it happened and I put up my arm to block it and got this huge one that went most of the length of my forearm.

#2 I tripped over a lump in the sidewalk (I'm the picture of grace!), staggered a few steps, and came up against the cast iron fence. One of the ones with spikes on the top. I missed the spikes, but put my arm up and - yup - got bruises on both sides of both forearms.

I'm also pale and bruise easily, and also bang into things a lot due to my gait and complete lack of grace. However, I can't think of any truly spectacular bruises that I've had.

Although I was pretty much cough free yesterday (and cough medicine free) I had a cough fit that lasted a few minutes. It was no where near as bad as they have been, but it was back to not being able to stop coughing. So I took the cough syrup with codeine and hopefully that will let my throat and body rest some more.

I'm going to work tomorrow. For a full shift, unless I really start coughing badly and can't make it through.