How many times have y'all wrote out a post. Read through it and then just deleted instead of posting?

Hells to the yeah.

Is Pedialyte sweet? I worry that I spiked my headache with the sugar in the Gatorade, but after another night ($$$!) in the ER, it's under control.

Kids, taper, don't cold turkey. Also, don't let them prescribe you narcotics. On the other hand...my head did hurt kinda less. We'll see. My doc dialled down the replacement medication (OTC NasalCrom!) because it might be giving me anxiety side effects, so I'm pretty much floating on just the one med.

Mentally I feel much better off them, though. The issue is catching up physically, which I think I've just about accomplished. Yesterday I didn't know if I could brain and talk coherently, so I postponed a meeting with a recruiter until today. Except--I was in such bad shape I don't remember who when or where! Jesus. QED, tho.

Polgara is a superhero!

Mos Def.

Speaking of which, he had a crush on one of my cousins, and apparently one of his songs is about her. That side of the family, man. That's the side that dated Van Peebles (pere, not fils).

I still have a Google alert for my old company, and ouch! Despite all the changes they made to IT, apparently they made news with tech failures when they had to onboard their new sister companies. Now, I wish I had *a* job, but I'm not quite as salty about not having *that* one anymore. I am also stalking co-workers via LinkedIn to see who's still there. Some good people are gone, including the CEO. And some people I swear were inept are still there. Or don't obsess over LinkedIn's accuracy.

I see snowflakes. Do not approve.

For a heartbeat I wanted to move back to the UK. Then I remembered those. Not want.

If you could move anywhere, where would you go? And still work and stuff (if you have the kept woman hookup, pls to supply). Very few places, for me.

Will I be able to draw US social security if I don't live here? Like, if I'm still a citizen (no plans on fracking that) but live in Jamaica? I just got my annual "here's how little you'll have" and it's not that little when you convert it to our pretty paper. And that is my current retirement plan. Maybe I will co-locate or something.

There was measurable snow in my front yard when I got home last night. Do not want.

Lows in the teens the next couple of days. Whee.

Will I be able to draw US social security if I don't live here? Like, if I'm still a citizen (no plans on fracking that) but live in Jamaica?

Yes. In fact, even as a citizen of Jamaica you'd be entitled to receive your payments outside of the US. (There are a few countries the payments cannot go, so you'd want to check on that.)

Will I be able to draw US social security if I don't live here?

My mom gets a pension from the US Armed Forces (a whole $50/month), but not Social Security.

Wow, caught up after weeks. Now to tackle Bitches.

Drive-by posting

Ooo, the fine dining restaurant down the street has oysters Rockefeller and Bienville this week. I can feel my resolve to eat like a college student until actually away on vacation weakening...

My retirement plan is now to move to Jamaica.

My retirement plan is now to move to Jamaica.

Isn't that basically the premise of House Hunters International?

If you could move anywhere, where would you go?

Honestly, I kinda feel like one place is pretty much like another. I mean, they are all different but they all have pros and cons and I don't have much of a preference based on intrinsic values of location. Feel like staying near my parents is a good idea right now, other than that I shrug.

My retirement plan is now to move to Jamaica.

Apparently the vogue is to retire into the mountains, for people who don't want to adjust to full tropics again. People fly lumber from the US, etc. But I like Kingston.

Yes. In fact, even as a citizen of Jamaica you'd be entitled to receive your payments outside of the US

Oh, thank dog. I can't believe I didn't think to ask that before.

I kinda feel like one place is pretty much like another

You don't have a temperature preference? Population density? Language/cuisine? My dad dragged us along to a few places, and I've liked everywhere I've lived except Michigan, but I could never intimate that they're similar (ESPECIALLY DETROIT).

I worked out who I'm meeting and when! Woohoo! Now I have to chase down my prescription for the weekend (the doctor's office has to fax a form in triplicate once every four weeks, and they always let it slide until Friday, no matter how soon I call them. Not only is there now a woman whose whole job is prescriptions, they told me the doctor was ON THE LINE with the pharmacy yesterday, but he seems to have forgotten how to write.