Wow, Zen, that's ridiculous.

I am also having several special snowflakes this week--"oh, but that's so much work, do I REALLY HAVE TO?" Um, I'm asking you for it once every 8 weeks. And in the time it took you to write those several complainy emails, you could've easily faxed me the FOUR PAGES we're talking about. Jesus.

If the recycling guys are the least bit nosy, probably wonder about my toilet paper roll fetish. I don't think one has made it into the recycling without being dropped in the toilet and unspooling sincerity her. Thanks, Pumpkin.

(Brought to you by.: I really had to pee and barely had the seconds to fish that one out.PUMPKIN.)

The one star national park reviews are pretty fun. I want to take everyone who mentions a park as being better than the one they gave one star to and make them fight the people who gave the "better" park one star.

Not to the death, just til I get bored. Or run out of tacos and government supplied coffee. Whichever comes first.

I would like to see the ratings and comments on such a contest.

Surely Yelp has a category for that.

Crap -- I just called my dentist's office, and the person who answered told me the name of the person at the desk in the orthodontist area, and I've already forgotten! It just falls right out of my head. It's something like Rispee? I guess it's time to give up on remembering.

Meh. The pollen count is too damn high (die, ragweed, die), the temperature is WAY too cool (I am not remotely ready for fall-like temperatures yet), and my coffee is not waking me up. And on top of that, I just opened the article I have to edit today, and it's a long article about multiple forms of child abuse.

I would like to return today for a refund or exchange.

Oh, ugh, Tep, that doesn't sound like a great day. Maybe you can get store credit if you can find a manager.

I'll be in testing today, but my department has closed all it's issues so I'm really just standing by in case something comes up that needs my input. Really the only downside is that I have a less ergonomic workspace. Happy with my breakfast, though - poached duck egg on toast with Muenster (which was moldy but not all moldy and I know I'm not supposed to just go ahead and eat the still not moldy bits but I've been doing it all my life and never gotten sick from it (at least not obviously)).

It occurred to me last night that my little bout of maybe flu was maybe West Nile, that's supposed to be fluish, yes? I did get bit by more mosquitoes than usual in the last week or so. Anyway, seems to have passed whatever it was so it probably doesn't matter.

That doesn't sound good, Steph. Neither does West Nile!

I have switched from claritin to Allegra for the allergies, and it does seem to be helping-- but most of my problem is skin, not sinus, so maybe that is why?

most of my problem is skin, not sinus

You can take histamine 2 blockers meant for heartburn/GERD along WITH Allegra/Claritin/etc., because they actually are helpful for skin manifestations of allergic reactions.

The histamine 2 blockers are Tagamet (cimetidine), Pepcid (famotidine), Axid (nizatidine), and Zantac (ranitidine).