How do you feel today?

[CovenantJr]

One day last week one of my kids was home sick with a GI problem.

I hear Mr Donaldson suffers from terrible GI problems

[dANdeLION]

I suffered from terrible DR posts; sometimes I'd have several hundred "attacks" a day. Fortnately, it's tapered off lately.

[Myste]

Tummy things are the worst. I can't tell you how many times I've requistioned a new GI tract, only to be denied. Damned bureaucrats.

[MsMary]

I am so tired today. Need to get to bed earlier.

On the plus side, my face hurts less than when I first ran into the filing cabinet.

[lurch]

...Last nite i made up a pot of 15 bean soup. Can of tomatoes, 1 onion, 1 bell pepper, 6 jalapenos, numerous ground up " sillyee" or Thai peppers, and plenty of garlic and cilantro, etc, and of course the bag of beans soaked in water overnite.

...Tonite, i partake.

..Tomorrow,,i may be of compalint about my GI tract. we're talking about stomach and intestines rite?

..But, interesting occurance last nite. While cooking the soup down,,i stir and taste test occassionaly. The Thai peppers were dominant. For any unawares,,they establish themselves in the presense of a spherical glowing nuclear reaction at the very top of throat and at back of mouth. These peppers you have to wash your hands after handling, seriously. Anyway,,just little sips told me everything I needed to kno. And then, about 5 minutes after the smallest of sampling, zap, my eyesite became sharp and clear. I sat up straight in the chair. Fatigue vanished. I had heard about the pepper freaks who snort ground pepper for the " pick-up" it gives, but this was the 1st time ever I experienced the pepper uplift. Usually i amtoo busy stuffing loafs of bread into my mouth to notice,,but just the little samplings allowed me to notice...amazing. So today, incase you haven't noticed,,I feel pretty good. And what better to do than express my good feelings than at a website devoted to one of my favorite authors. ..Otherwise, i'd have to deal with the fact that I can't go home for awhile, because a policeman was shot in my neighborhood this afternoon, and according to my renter,,the block is sealed off,,no one in, no one out..door to door search with dogs, helicopters abuzz overhead, etc.etc. Compared to the policeman, I am having a good day.......MEL

[Worm of Despite]

Ever try Dave's Insanity Sauce, lurch? Hot stuff!

[Lady Revel]

Nervous, I have a job interview.

*goes to make an Alka-Seltzer*

[dANdeLION]

I hope you get that job so you can afford to buy an already-made Alka-seltzer.......

[duchess of malfi]

On the plus side, my face hurts less than when I first ran into the filing cabinet.

I'm glad you're feeling better.

Lurch, if you are eating 15 bean soup, I'm glad I do not share a small car with you.

We're getting a nice rain today. Should make our new plants happy. Maybe it'll wash some of the pollen out of the air, too. It'll rain the next few days. Should give me plenty of time to curl up with the books I just checked out at the library. And maybe I can finally watch the dvd of Phantom of the Opera.

[lurch]

Duchess..I doubt that you'd want to share even a big car with me. It was " windows down" during this a.m.s commute...all the way. The jazz on the radio had nothing on me. Talk about riffs.

..There was danger tho. Due to a cancellation, a presentation for a future staff meeting was rescheduled to ..today. We were prepared . I was to present the powerpoint,,that is, stand up in front of everybody and verbalize. When I found what was to be I had about 5 minutes to adjust and prepare. A quick walk outside alleviated little. The manager decided to yammer on and on and the grumblings in my stomach promised a staff meeting approaching apocraful..but an angel smiled on my condition, and the Safety Rep was chosen to give his weekly safety rant first. Now, this guy is heavy with sarcasim in his presentation and usually has us loao before he's done. His topic of the correct way to sit in chair,,had the guffaws rolling before half thru. Perfect sonic camoflague. Being the wise and knowledgable, i seized the opportunity once presented. My presentation proceeded unevenful thank you.

..Which brings me to this wonderage,,when will scientists invent the yeast, bacteria, whatever,, than because of genetically engineering,,actually lets humans gaseous outpouring , smell like roses. Think of it!. A tablespoon a day and the folks in the elevator would actually look foward to you every morning. There would be carpool " A" lists. I already see commercials much like the , " pardon me sir, do you have any mustard?" Poupon indeed!..Then,,from roses, we go to Lilacs, on and on. Exotica would heighten the hype. " marigolds!, that was sooo yesterday!" Millions!, Millions I tells ya to be made on this. Designer ..........hhhmm,,the word would actually trascend political correctness and become just another word....oh my.....oh well...........MEL..ps..iam feeling quite well today...M

[Edge]

Gee... I wouldn't think that only 15 beans would make that much soup.

[lurch]

Edge..look what one bean did for Jack!..MEL

[CovenantJr]

I feel

I shall recover.

[kevinswatch]

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEURAL NEEEEEEEEEETWORKS!!!

Yeah, something like that.-jay

(We need a "I feel like stabing myself in the eye" Smilie)

[I'm Murrin]

Tired yet energetic, very slightly ill, self-conscious, and a little dull-witted (the tiredness, probably). I'm finding it hard to put words together into coherent sentences, and my typing's gone to hell.

[I'm Murrin]

Addendum: Restless.

[kevinswatch]

Ah... I love the smell of BS in the morning.

CALVIN: You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
HOBBES: What mood is that?
CALVIN: Last minute panic.
-Calvin & Hobbes

-jay

(Eat that, Neural Networks! I'll see you in hell!)

[dANdeLION]

BS? Ahh, you mean bean soup; yes, bean soup with....Pepper Uplift? David Brin may need to be contacted; this Uplift soup smells of copyright infringement.

[danlo]

dAN only you could conjure up images of flatulent dolphins!

[dANdeLION]

I was thinkinf gaseous anomalies, but flatulent dolphins works too.