In 2011 I started keeping track of my health more, so I was able to construct a possible incomplete list of cold-symptom periods. It's possible some of them were hay fever, like Apr/May, or Sep 2019 in Australia, but I think I can tell the difference -- I had very obvious hay fever a bit later in Australia.

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Have received my second Moderna. I moved my arms through the 15 minute waiting period, and walked around the park for an hour or so before daring to take the trains home rather than another Lyft. Late that evening I started to feel aches and blah, and I slept so-so with all the blankets on. Next day, I don't think I ever had a really high fever, ( Read more... )

Time for another dump.

Israel's massive desalination project.

Messing with prices works: 5 cent charge cuts UK plastic bag use by 85%.

Smoking gun found in North Carolina: voter ID laws are explicitly racist in their intent, aimed at disenfranchising black voters.

Long piece on Hillary's climate policy.  The DNC pro-gay rights platform.

Houston ( Read more... )

I ran across two "bad Catholics" links today. One on an alleged gay network within the Vatican (paging Dan Brown), the other on the founder of the ultra-conservative Legion of Christ, a priest who sexually abused his own children... children which he shouldn't have on account of being a priest. (By a mistress, not by a dead pre-priesthood wife ( Read more... )

I've been very unadventurous since the 2nd and 3rd. On the 2nd new sandals chafed very badly, scraping off a lot of skin near my big toe; it's still scabbed over. (I've had related problems before; this is why I often commit the fashion sin of socks with sandals. Sandals air out my feet, socks protect them.) On the third I stubbed another toe ( Read more... )

So about a year ago my dentist figured I'd become a grinder, which might also explain the weird random headaches I started getting. Down in Chile I got a thermoplastic bite guard, and I've used it or others for the past 9 months. You're supposed to only for 6, but I never heard why ( Read more... )

Privilege as difficulty level: straight white male is playing life in easy mode ( Read more... )

My cold from AB has rolled over almost perfectly into spring allergies. For a couple days I was feeling almost over things, then bam, wake up today to thick eye mucus and extra sandy eyes and being tired and all. I'm toying with getting to FilkOntario. I'm also wondering where I can travel that won't have air jizz at the moment. Besides the ( Read more... )

Every time I've stayed in apartment by myself on my travels this trip, I've gotten sick ( Read more... )

What the heck is with the multiple 50+ comment posts on James's LJ today? Gah ( Read more... )