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Yay, begin the long weekend...
Dec. 29th, 2010 09:40 pm...thud. ZZZzzz...
I'd say it was a slow day at work, but it wasn't exactly. I arrived to find a mountain of new books on my desk waiting to be cataloged. Since I will be out until Monday, I felt I needed to get those taken care of. The other cataloger (part time) usually does the largest amount of catalog work on Fridays, and we'll be closed Friday, so they would have sat around until Monday if I didn't move them out today. The evening was even more dead than Wednesdays have usually been of late, which is really dead. In the last hour, from 7 to 8, three people came in and out.
Gary made pea soup with the ham bone from Christmas, and we had that for dinner once I got home. It was really good, but then I really like pea soup.
One other thing I did while at work was download two netbook-optimized distributions of Linux. My netbook should arrive tomorrow or Friday, and the Xandros Linux the manufacturer puts on is apparently pretty stodgy. Good for beginners, but not very flexible about installing other software and not exactly as fast as it could be. So I got boot images for the latest Ubuntu netbook edition (10.10) and Cruncheee (also Debian-based.) I couldn't think of downloading a Gigabyte of code like that on our home connection, but it went well enough on a quiet night at the library. Burned one to a CD and the other to an SD card. We have a USB CDRW drive, so I should be able to install from that or else write the stuff to a flash drive.
Weather here is warm (above freezing) with drizzle. Supposed to get up to 50F on Friday. I predict floods from snowmelt but only after some more dense fog. It was getting misty driving home, in fact.
I definitely seem to have shingles, but if it doesn't get any worse than it is right now, I'll manage. It's confined to a strip two or three fingers wide on my left side. No real treatment other than to alleviate the symptoms with ibuprofen or acetaminophen and some itch relieving ointment or lotion. Calamine is suggested, and I see the label on the Benadryl says not to use it on chicken pox rash which is, in effect, what shingles is. I guess it will be contagious for a couple of days if/when it blisters and oozes, but so far it doesn't look as if it will go that far. I did warn the boss that I might have to take some sick days if that happens. No point exposing anyone who hasn't already had chicken pox or been vaccinated. At the moment it really doesn't look or feel much worse than a very mild attack of poison ivy or stinging nettle, and much more localized than that probably would be.
I'd say it was a slow day at work, but it wasn't exactly. I arrived to find a mountain of new books on my desk waiting to be cataloged. Since I will be out until Monday, I felt I needed to get those taken care of. The other cataloger (part time) usually does the largest amount of catalog work on Fridays, and we'll be closed Friday, so they would have sat around until Monday if I didn't move them out today. The evening was even more dead than Wednesdays have usually been of late, which is really dead. In the last hour, from 7 to 8, three people came in and out.
Gary made pea soup with the ham bone from Christmas, and we had that for dinner once I got home. It was really good, but then I really like pea soup.
One other thing I did while at work was download two netbook-optimized distributions of Linux. My netbook should arrive tomorrow or Friday, and the Xandros Linux the manufacturer puts on is apparently pretty stodgy. Good for beginners, but not very flexible about installing other software and not exactly as fast as it could be. So I got boot images for the latest Ubuntu netbook edition (10.10) and Cruncheee (also Debian-based.) I couldn't think of downloading a Gigabyte of code like that on our home connection, but it went well enough on a quiet night at the library. Burned one to a CD and the other to an SD card. We have a USB CDRW drive, so I should be able to install from that or else write the stuff to a flash drive.
Weather here is warm (above freezing) with drizzle. Supposed to get up to 50F on Friday. I predict floods from snowmelt but only after some more dense fog. It was getting misty driving home, in fact.
I definitely seem to have shingles, but if it doesn't get any worse than it is right now, I'll manage. It's confined to a strip two or three fingers wide on my left side. No real treatment other than to alleviate the symptoms with ibuprofen or acetaminophen and some itch relieving ointment or lotion. Calamine is suggested, and I see the label on the Benadryl says not to use it on chicken pox rash which is, in effect, what shingles is. I guess it will be contagious for a couple of days if/when it blisters and oozes, but so far it doesn't look as if it will go that far. I did warn the boss that I might have to take some sick days if that happens. No point exposing anyone who hasn't already had chicken pox or been vaccinated. At the moment it really doesn't look or feel much worse than a very mild attack of poison ivy or stinging nettle, and much more localized than that probably would be.
