I LOL’d.
Spartaaaa!!!!!
More on Grandma
When I was a kid, and we’d go to visit Blue Grandma, she would always try to feed me. It seemed to be a kind of reflex with her; see a kid, feed it. She did the same thing with my cousins when they came to visit.
Yesterday I took my youngest sprog to visit her in the hospital. She’s been there almost a month now. She’s got a feeding tube because she’s not able to eat until her throat heals. She’s having physical therapy because she can’t walk on her own. She’s confined to her chair and can’t get up without the help of a nurse.
But she still managed to feed my son. She told him where the nurses keep the soda and graham crackers, and instructed him to go and get himself some.
I have to admire her tenacity.
Dreaming of Water
Around one o’clock this morning, extremely thirsty. I got a bottle of water, gulped down a quarter of it, and put it on the nightstand in case I wanted more later.
I went back to sleep and dreamed I was drinking it. I could feel it, cool and wet, and I was very thirsty.
I woke up and drank some more water. I went to sleep and dreamed of drinking water. Lather, rinse, repeat.
By two-thirty or so I’d finished off the bottle. I was no longer so terribly thirsty, but now I couldn’t sleep. I felt queasy and uncomfortable. I assumed it was because of all the water I’d been drinking.
I dozed fitfully until it was time to get up. I still felt queasy and sick. My entire digestive tract seemed to be shifting around, rebellious and irritable. It’s largely remained that way for the entire day.
I don’t know if I caught something, or ate something, or what. I just thought it was strange, my sudden nocturnal craving for water. I don’t recall ever having such vividly sensory dreams. Perhaps it was something I ate making me ill, and I was trying to dilute it. Odd.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
I was walking through Target with my mate, observing the plethora of tacky green plastic hats. Which, incidentally, I want.
He: Why all this fuss over St. Patrick? You never hear about St. Andrew. What did St. Patrick ever do to deserve his own holiday?
Me: He drove the snakes out of Ireland.
He: And by snakes, you mean Celtic pagans.
Me: Yep!
IE = Pain In My Ass
It’s quite annoying to design a style sheet with clean, compliant code that looks quite spiffy in Firefox, only to watch Internet Explorer break the shit out of it because IE doesn’t adhere to web standards.
Q: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: None. They just change the industry standard to darkness.
Time to slap on a buttload of IE hacks.
Drunk Squirrel
deromilly, you should really show this one to your spousal unit.
Grandma Report
I went to see my grandmother in the hospital yesterday; she’s still in the ICU, recovering from the surgery, and Dad says she’s mostly been out of it until just today.
She seemed glad to see me, and immediately starting chatting up a storm. We discussed all the tubes and gadgets she was hooked up to, the comings and goings of my various cousins who had also been in to see her, and other general topics.
At one point a nurse came in to check on her, and remarked “You just had surgery on your throat, and all you want to do is talk?”
Grandma said, “I got behind. I need to catch up on my talking.”