Here's an annoying work thing: for the first time in my life I will be subject to random drug tests. This wasn't my boss's idea but something our biggest client inserted into our new contract with them.

It seems weird that a client can make us do that. But they're very big and we are very small.

That does seem weird. But big clients are like that.

OK, off to Vallejo. Sorry actual work, maybe I will get to you this afternoon.

We were up at Huntsman Cancer last night, having business in the isolation section where Hubby's going to be staying. It was a lot less Boy in a Bubble than I thought it would be, though Hubby said that's because there are lots of different levels of isolation.

Anyway, we were walking down the hall, and I saw a room labelled Stark for the patient name. I said, "People with that last name must get a lot of grief these days." Hubby: "They probably always have." Me: "The exposure is a lot more mainstream these days." Him: "Depends on what kind of geeks they hang out with." "True."

I think it's the ongoing conversation that builds off of thirty years of verbal cues that need to explanation that I love most. He and I have our own dialect, built off of multi-lingual puns. A friend was making a dictionary with etymology.

That's terrible, Consuela. Bad enough feeling terrible, but the vertigo makes it so difficult to do anything else.

Home from vacation. A/c is broken, elevators at my doctor's office are broken, it's raining, and the doctor is of course running late.

Returning from vacation always sucks, but that's even more sucky.

Here's a weird medical thing that I don't trust Dr. Google for info on. Every once in a while when I'm talking I suddenly feel like I can't control my mouth and tongue to speak properly and all I can do is make gibberish noises. Usually this happens for a second or so. Last night I was talking and this happened for about three or four seconds--I just couldn't form words at all during that time. I had to stop speaking, wait five seconds and try again, when everything was back to normal.

Is this something I should be concerned about?

eta: I'm a stutterer and this was nothing at all like stuttering.

Could be very brief seizures, tommyrot...

Could be very brief seizures, tommyrot...

Well that doesn't sound good.

Back when I first lost vision in my left eye, I had a brain MRI that showed I'd had a number of micro-strokes. Maybe this is related? Maybe i should see a neurologist?

With you having a history of micro-strokes, I'd encourage a neurology check up.