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[the_dark_snack]

I know I've been bitching a lot about my coworker lately, but I would like to once again reiterate that I adore my job. My boss called me into his office this morning to inform me that he was going to have the company pay me for Monday's holiday. He had asked me last week if the temp agency gave us Holiday pay. I said yes but I don't qualify for

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[friendstephen]

There's something weird about this season. I was having a lot of allergy problems (runny nose and congestion), so I switched antihistamines about ten times until I found one that stopped my runny nose, didn't make me drowsy and didn't destroy my sense of smell - thanks Flonase, I really appreciated that!. Once I finally found one it left me with an almost constant feeling of being congested. No runny nose, just feeling like I'm stopped up.

I started trying products to deal with congestion. Afrin didn't work, which is just as well because you can't take Afrin all the time anyway. I tried decongestant pills, the ones you have to sign for. Nada. I even tried Sinol, which uses capsaicin to relieve your congestion. Capsaicin is the active ingredient in pepper spray, the substance that makes hot peppers hot. It is indeed invigorating -- to say the least -- to spray pepper spray up one's nose, but even that was inadequate.

What finally seems to have done it was to put a cheap air purifier from Wal-Mart in the room where I sleep. Of course, like anything cheap from Wal-Mart there is a non-trivial chance that it will prove defective and have to go back, and one of the features of it has already broken, but other than that, it seems to have worked...at least so far.

Just throwing out my recent experiences in this area.