Archive for April, 2004


What a day, what a day…

We got up. Heather still suffering from the tonsillitis, but now it’s killer nausea from the antibiotics. Cefilex or something. So, we go back to the hospital. They give her something for the nausea and move her to good ol’ Pen VK. We went home and watched some tivo captured WSOP 2003.

By about 11 she is feeling better 😉 This is good. We get to see our landlord and his family. 🙂 We haven’t seen them in a few months. We miss them. Heather and I work on our killer, puzzle from hell (pictures soon). The tree people are here to cut away the over grown pine out our back porch. There’s been suggestions of a killer view off our back porch, but it’s been mostly hidden by the overgrown pine. They cut it away today. Very interesting to watch the process. I felt kinda bad at one point. Felt like, who am I to stand by and watch them trim back a tree for a view. But the truth was, the tree was beginning to sag from the weight and it actually looks a little healthier cut back.

Well, it was my b’day (and thanks to all who sent messages and emails). So we went for the gloriousness that was raw fish. We went to our usual sushi joint, “Aoba” on Brand in Glendale. We discovered a nice, little comic shop around the corner. It’s a pity though. I’ve been out of comic books pretty much since moving to L.A. we got there at 5pm just as they opened. OH! Was the tuna fresh!!! Yum! We splurged and dropped about $50 on my b’day dinner.

Gloriously… no one sang. (I have a history up until about 20 of being dragged to Benihana style restaurants by my family and getting renditions of “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands” in Japanese. (Which, sadly I have memorized). Then, the diversion for the evening. With a little cajoling from a now healthier Heather, we went down to the City of Commerce to indulge our Poker Bug.

I’m not going to bore you with all the details. But we both doubled up what we budgetted and I had one incredible hand.

Here are the hand details

So, while shimmeringjemmy is recovering from tonsillitis I have been taking on the role of caregiver. She is now happily on vicodin for the pain.

This morning I woke her at 8:20 to make sure she took her meds and let her get back to sleep. It’s not that she isn’t capable of taking care of herself, I just want her to relax and heal. I told her the time and got her meds for her. Sadly, I was unaware of the fact that she’d woken up at 5:00 and taken them then. Okay, two vicodin doses in 3 hours. Oops. I went to webMD. The sight has a javascript glitch. So I found The Valuts of Erowid

After wandering around the site I discovered some really bizarre information that my utter minimal amount of Biochem knowledge found intriguing.

See now the connection between amphetamines, meth-amphetamines, chocolate, and caffiene!