Yo, what it is! La Loca has been absent from her Vox neighborhood for absolutely bloody sodding ages, but is back in black. Well, I'm back. Yes, I'm back in black. (Sorry. AC/DC songs frankly look kind of dumb when written out, and even Dylan has his repetitious moments, as in his song that described today where I live: "Well, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, yes, it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.")
I try to share lessons I learn with people. Indeed, you might say that's the whole purpose of a teacherly existence. So here's today's: If you are allergic to coniferous plants, like pine, then walking into a Home Depot, where people are sawing lumber -- thus creating huge amounts of pine dust -- is really dumb. Like, "haul spinal-cord-disabled ass out of store to adjacent Office Max, sit in chair, cough lungs out, use asthma inhaler" dumb. And taking Benadryl does wonders for the histamine reaction (as it should damn well do, being an antihistamine), but it also makes me even dumber, causing me to order later on, at the Macaroni Grill, a salad with "ski scallops." You know, the ones that go coasting down mountain slopes in the wintertime.
However, it's lovely getting time with my dad and stepmother, and my living-room "bookcase" made of cinderblocks and metal studs is getting embiggened. This is fab. I have a significant case of Too Many Books Disorder -- and the 'rents enabled my biblioholism yet again by bringing down three more crates of my old fantasy and SF paperbacks! Yes, because my apartment doesn't look enough like a small branch of the local library!
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