Computers suck, pills get eaten
I had some problems with my email. It wasn't sending, and it was telling me it couldn't reach my server. So I called Sympatico. The phone-dude said my Windows 98 something-or-other needs to be reinstalled and did I have my disc? I told him I'd never had a disc and the computer just came with windows on it. Apparently, they were supposed to give me a disc but many places don't. So, LJ world: does anyone have a Windows 98 disc that I could use? I assumed I could get one from my boss, who's the Kazaa whore of all time. He once said "only suckers pay for software." But phone-dude said that burned copies would be encrypted with somethingorother, and would only work 10% of the time, if at all. It sounded ominous.
I studied German for several hours. I mastered some verb forms (Active verbs: present, past, perfect, pluperfect, future, future perfect) and started in on some others (passive verbs).
I made some dinner but I don't feel like eating it.
I'm getting ready to go out for the interview.
In other news, someone sent me a something that contains something that web sites say might kill me. It's ephedra. The person who sent it is a relative of mine (I'm being all cryptic because I gather this isn't really legal) and they use it all the time.
I'm concerned that it might give me a heart attack or a stroke and kill me, but I'm also hoping it can remove some of my body fat. Originally I was against the idea. But the whole losing weight plan seems to have hit a wall, and my thinner me is trapped beyond it.
On the one hand, strokes and heart attacks sound bad. On the other hand, I already take lots of stuff that has killed some people, like the pill.
If so many of my relatives take it, I'm thinking it might be safe for me. Aren't we really similar genetically? And Shari Belafonte's still alive, right? But then again lots of things bother me that don't bother my relatives and vice versa. They like applesauce and I don't like my food to touch other food.
On the one hand, some athletes died, and they must have been pretty healthy if they're athletes, right? But I wasn't planning on doing any professional sports. And I didn't plan on taking more than the recommended dosage, which apparently some people did with bad results.
I'm wondering if the part of my brain which thinks this is a bad idea is the part that dislikes me, and wants me to be unhappy or the part which looks out for me and tries to keep me from doing stupid things.
Since people aren't supposed to be taking it anymore it's hard to find reliable info on it. Like, I'm wondering if it might interfere with my bc pills. Will the pills increase the likelihood of high blood pressure and stroke even more than my bc does? I wonder things like that. And now I'm putting the bottle back into the fridge because it makes me nervous.
I studied German for several hours. I mastered some verb forms (Active verbs: present, past, perfect, pluperfect, future, future perfect) and started in on some others (passive verbs).
I made some dinner but I don't feel like eating it.
I'm getting ready to go out for the interview.
In other news, someone sent me a something that contains something that web sites say might kill me. It's ephedra. The person who sent it is a relative of mine (I'm being all cryptic because I gather this isn't really legal) and they use it all the time.
I'm concerned that it might give me a heart attack or a stroke and kill me, but I'm also hoping it can remove some of my body fat. Originally I was against the idea. But the whole losing weight plan seems to have hit a wall, and my thinner me is trapped beyond it.
On the one hand, strokes and heart attacks sound bad. On the other hand, I already take lots of stuff that has killed some people, like the pill.
If so many of my relatives take it, I'm thinking it might be safe for me. Aren't we really similar genetically? And Shari Belafonte's still alive, right? But then again lots of things bother me that don't bother my relatives and vice versa. They like applesauce and I don't like my food to touch other food.
On the one hand, some athletes died, and they must have been pretty healthy if they're athletes, right? But I wasn't planning on doing any professional sports. And I didn't plan on taking more than the recommended dosage, which apparently some people did with bad results.
I'm wondering if the part of my brain which thinks this is a bad idea is the part that dislikes me, and wants me to be unhappy or the part which looks out for me and tries to keep me from doing stupid things.
Since people aren't supposed to be taking it anymore it's hard to find reliable info on it. Like, I'm wondering if it might interfere with my bc pills. Will the pills increase the likelihood of high blood pressure and stroke even more than my bc does? I wonder things like that. And now I'm putting the bottle back into the fridge because it makes me nervous.