You can drink more brain-eating amoebas than is safe to pour up your nose.

[azurelunatic]

Woke up this morning (a few hours after having finally got to bed) in considerable distress, as it had become immensely difficult to breathe. The subsequent coughing fit helped a little, but I remained awake and upright until I felt that my throat had fully opened up again.

I opted to not share all my snot and germs with the world, and stayed miserably in. (Not to mention, I was dead to the world until late in the evening.) Disappointing, as there was a lot of fun that I'd rather have been having, but...

In accordance with the advice I'd passed along to my aunt about neti pot safety, I used pre-boiled water to rinse out my nose. Hooray neti pot. Amazing amounts of crud came out, and I felt much more human after having done so.


#dw is hopping. There are new people! Old people returned! Chatty people! There are good times. Rah has instituted a new thing, the regular channel stretch break -- voluntary, but useful.

It is satsuma season here. Delicious. I have been eating a lot of them, and grilled cheese sandwiches, this week.

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[niqaeli]

I should really find myself an IRC client I do not hate utterly and hang out more on there. mIRC is usable but still annoys me deeply and everything else I've ever used I haaaaate. (A pity that Trillian's IRC functionality is so horribly useless. Possibly relatedly, it's a pity that I can't stand anything more recent than Trillian 3. ...to be fair, I am apparently just about as particular about my chat programs as synecdochic and would also be using the same EOLed-awhile-back chat program she uses were I on a mac regularly still.)

[0jack]

I agree with this—I could use a Mac client that doesn't make me want to punch kittens. Sorry, kittens.

[azurelunatic]

I will not even suggest the Freenode web client, as that makes me want to punch kittens.

[snippy]

Oh yes, satsumas are the annual temporary replacement for everything I eat the rest of the year, trying to find that acid/sweet/satisfying shock I only get from satsumas...oh wait, that was pretty recursive, but even so.

[azurelunatic]

Mmm, satsumas.

I think cherries are still my favorite, but, mmm, satsumas.

[trixieleitz]

Rah is wise ♥

(and now I'm thinking it might be worth asking a bot-wrangler (no, not that kind!) to code a persistent stretch auto-reminder that people can switch on for themselves as they wish.)

[azurelunatic]

It would be surreal to have spambots nagging you to stretch.

[geekosaur]

We were tossing that around in channel today. sophie hasn't popped in yet as I write this, so no idea if it has any chance of happening.

(I'd add it to mine, but as yet the codebase isn't kindly to asynchronous activities, and the maintainers seem to be running as fast as possible just to keep up with GHC. L-rd knows I haven't had much success with that; it's currently rather cranky on startup, and upgrading to the latest without losing my local changes is proving challenging.)

There are a number of "typing break" programs for various OSes that could probably be used (or adapted if necessary), at that.

[nilo]

Yes, I was just reading up about neti pots and brain eating amoebas. So glad you boiled the water. I'm assuming you let it cool first?

I'm so sorry you're sick.

I LOVE satsumas.

[azurelunatic]

Yes, I indeed did let it cool. Boiling water in the sinuses would be an altogether different experience!

I'm starting to feel better, hooray!

[cadenzamuse]

Wait, what's this about nose wash safety? And does it also apply to the squirt kind, or just the neti pots?

[azurelunatic]

You can safely drink more brain-eating amoebas than you can put up your nose. Applies to all water-up-nose situations. Some municipal water sources contain brain-eating amoebas; most municipal water sources are not policed for brain-eating amoebas if one can safely drink them. Thus, distilled or boiled water is safest for all water-up-nose applications.

[cadenzamuse]

Ah, useful to know, thank you.