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Truency and Other Topics

Okay, so it's been a while. Considering there hasn't been much going on I decided that I shouldn't post anything unless there was... So get over it already. You haven't been posting much either...
At any rate. I have a date this weekend.
Who? You don't know her. Heck, I don't even know her. I met her at an online dating site.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I swore those things off a while back. But eh.... I got a date...

2012

Okay, so 11 wasn't my greatest year... While I did manage to get laid the circumstances weren't the greatest (with the exception of one and you know who you are). I had a girlfriend for all of 10 days or were it 11?
I'm still liking the new job, I did get a raise back in November that was unattached to the annual raises/bonuses that everyone else got. Wasn't just me... all management support got to wait til July for our bonus or were it raise?
I got talked into making a canopy for a pontoon boat. It'll be the first and the last one I make.
Wait... did I get off track? Wait... there was track?
I'm going to unleash my inner geek soon. There may be pictures. I don't know how hard that is going to be. I'm a social chameleon. I know just enough about cars and guns to hang with the red necks, smart enough to hang with intellectuals, just active enough to talk work outs with the gym goers. One of my best friends describes me as cultured with a side order of grits.
I would have been considered "Other" in high school. Too cool to be a nerd, too much a geek to be a jock, not nifty enough to hang with the cool kids. Our "Other" crowd was JROTC. BooYah!
So... I'm going to try to hang with the Comicon type folks without being totally in their category. I read a few comics when I was a kid but I don't quite have the intimate knowledge these folks have. My nerdiness may still reek of natty lite and redneckery....
Crap! I don't know if I'm geeky enough to pull off Steam Punk...
Hmmm
Whatever happens I am sooooo going to live 2012....
I even bought myself a gifty or three for my birthsday my precioussssssss... it's under two weeks away... I haven't bought myself a non prctical gift in a smll slice of forever. This bodes well in an ominous fashion...
Now I just got to get this damned canopy out of my way so I can start project Freaks'N'Geeks....

Tricks and Tips "They" Don't Want You to Know About

Honey
Unless you're allergic (in that case disregard, unless you're freaking, psychotically masochistic and like the thought of anaphylaxis) or under that age of one then honey is a wonderful cure-most, not just a tasty treat in teas, on pancakes or on your lover's naughty bits.
Honey has antimicrobial enzymes that work wonders on wounds as a poultice. It cleans out nasty infections pretty damn quick. There is a sterilized, expensive form of honey used in the treatment of diabetic wounds.
But wait. There's more. Honey also works on coughs just as well and in some cases better than major labeled cough syrup.
Got an infected wound and are too cheap to see a doctor or have a nasty, dry cough and don't like the taste of cough syrup? Honey is your answer. So slather it on and bandage it up or chug it down.

Vinegar
I loves me some pickles but vinegar isn't just for pickling, German food, marinades or vinaigrette. Mixed with water and a tiny amount of dish soap it makes some of the best glass/general purpose cleaner on the planet.
Have heartburn? Chronically? Are we talking in the acid reflux category?
Mix about a shot's worth of apple cider vinegar in with a tall glass of your favoritus juice and slam it down. You could get all crazy like me and take white vinegar straight up but I don't recommend it.
And that's all for... wait? What? Oh yeah. Heartburn isn't caused by too much acid in your digestive system. It's caused by a lack of acid. If your diet consists of a heavy amount of wonderfully, greasy fried or processed foods then chances are your stomach isn't going to be able to produce enough acid to cover the job. It needs support. It's kinda like calling in a strafing when your ground troops are getting riddled with bullets and shrapnel.

I may have more next time kiddies...

Trifecta

It started late last week.... It was my turn on the winter cold bracket. I got the stuffy nose, turning me into a mouth breather while I sleep and waking with cotton mouth so bad it makes me wish I had the munchies and squinty eyes. Next on the list is a sciatic nerve gone wonky. Which means I could find a comfy spot for all of an instant before the right side of my lower back decided it wanted to cause me more of that indescribable annoyance of pain. Nope... not the good old fashioned, endorphin secreting pain. It's that dull, achy pain I cannot really describe (okay, let me try.... like a toothache in the lower back).
Now that the cold is half way done and the lower back is feeling a little better lets go ahead and pop a rib out of place....
So um... how was your Christmas?

'Twas the Night Before Christmas...

... and I'll be at work
Making some money
As an overtimed clerk
While you are nestled
And drunk in your bed
I'll have those dollar signs
Dance through my head...

Merry Christmas and stuff...

"I" Before "E" Except After "C"...

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