11.01.04
Posted in Home Life at 10:19 pm by Beau
November’s Housewarming Groove Tracks:
1. Ain’t No Sunshine (Groove Corporation Remix)…Stryke
2. Tyron … Erykah Badu: Live
3. Ocean Drive (Original Album Mix) …Madison Park
4. My Lover’s Gone …Dido
5. Fade Into You …Mazzy Star
6. Ordinary World … Kurt Nilsen
7. I’ll Be There (Soul Mekanik Remix) … Weekend Players
8. Honey … Venus Hum
9. Glory Box … Portishead
10. Feelin’ Good (Joe Claussel Remix) … Nina Simone
11. The Great Escape (Carmen Rizzo Mix) … BT
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Posted in The Blog at 8:20 am by Beau
The price one pays for ignoring the inner workings of the blog machine is to be faced with deleting over 750 ill-begotten comments from the likes of those who’d like you to enter illicit poker tournaments, try lifestyle enhancement medications (‘hard-on pills’ for those not in the lingo), or increase the size of your already adequate penises and ba-zooms. It only took me the better part of the last two weeks of consistent deletion to finally get to a place where there aren’t twenty-five comments a day being posted to old entries. I’ve also not only closed every old entry to commenting but am making it a point to close new entries after two or three weeks after posting to avoid this bitch of a time-waster in the future. I’m in graduate school for God’s sake…you think I need a time wasting activity significantly more mind-numbing than the video game I already play all the time?
And I do apologize for the approval notification message everyone gets when they want to post a comment, but I thought it was the lesser of the two evils, the other forcing everyone to register before their comments are posted. Of course the last option was to ditch comments all together, but I hate doing that because, sadly, everyone’s comments actually validate my existence and provide the entire foundation for my self-esteem.
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Posted in Health and well-being at 7:53 am by Beau
Like everyone else, I’m not getting the flu shot this year and I’m a nurse and work in a hospital. Of course I’m not doing patient care and that’s the requirement for the shot but I’m OK with it. I’m relatively young and healthy so I’d rather someone who really needs the shot get mine. My 80-something year old grandmother is going without so I’d like to think, idealistically, that someone in need is getting my dose. That being said, for anyone living on Pluto who doesn’t know, the single BEST thing you can do to protect yourself at any time of year, not just the cold and flu season, is WASH YOUR DAMN, DIRTY HANDS. Wash them all the time, with the hottest water you can stand and regular soap. I say this because working (and now living) in NYC, I regularly ride the subways and buses and we know that means I come into contact daily with poop, Ebola, and other assorted micro-organisms smeared on the handrails and seats of public transporation, doornobs, and any piece of common office equiptment available. I make it a routine practice to wash anytime I come in from outside and even though I’m a nervous, hand-wringing, anxiety-prone, worry wart, I’ve consciously willed myself to stop my neurotic ticks like fiddling with my contacts and picking my nose. Keep your damn, dirty hands away from your face! My new best friend is antibacterial hand sanitizer which I have stashed at home, in the office, and in the cars. I use it anytime I can’t get to a sink to wash and periodically throughout the day. Are antibacterial washes helping to create antibiotic-resistant super strains? Uh, maybe…but then again, that’s someone elses poop you just touched during that handshake or on that cup of Dunkin Doughnut’s coffee someone just handed you.
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