Today is day 8 of the antibiotics… and I’m still not feeling great. Still got all the symptoms to a lesser degree and while its not slowing me down I just feel… ugh.  And this has been since 3/21/17 at 1:45 pm.  Yes, I kept track.

At one point, after a blast of a honey/lemon throat spray – which tastes like neither – I coughed up something that looked like it might have been an independent life form. It went down the drain of the sink before I could investigate and I’m guessing it’s just as well.

Two more days of antibiotics and then we’ll see how I’m doing. I’m still about 60% mucus and hoping to get that number down.

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I had a dream a few nights ago that I was doing some gardening and needed to protect the new plants from been eaten by deer. I was at a store trying to narrow it down between two products:

The first didn’t have a name – it was a spray that you put on the plants to make the deer throw up. It cautioned that deer vomit would kill your grass, but it would recover quicker than the plants.

The second was called BioLock and had a picture of a deer with a padlock above its head. Except that wasn’t just some kind of marketing thing – the product consisted of a set of padlocks on strings that you were supposed to hang above the plants. The deer would bonk their heads on the padlocks when trying to eat the plants and would get scared and run off. Naturally.

I was trying to decide between the two when I woke up. I’d blame the cold medicine, but this is just kinda the way my head works.

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The UA of School of Social Work wants to make me an Honorary member of the Phi Alpha Honor Society. A sort of Honorary honorary. Not sure if that cancels out or doubles, but I may know more at the induction ceremony in a few weeks.

It’s a little odd – I’m not a social worker (my degree is in HR) and I’m not part of their department, but this is just their way of saying thank you – and that they appreciate the work that I’ve done for their department and students over the years.

There’s a dinner and an awards presentation – I’m planning on wearing a tie. Like I said, a little odd, but kinda nice too.

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Jim and I have been collaborating on a couple of art projects. For his class he had to destroy/re-purpose an old book and had the idea of incorporating origami. So, we found some old books at a thrift store, cut out some pages, and I folded butterflies for one and goldfish for the other. The butterflies are mostly unpainted, except for the last few he’s got escaping from the book – and those are done in a bright blue. The fish are pouring out of another book and they are bright orange when they escape.

He did a great job on the design and I’ll post pictures of both soon.

We underestimated how many fish he would need – we started with 25 – and last evening was a rush job to do 30 more. And 10 more tonight. Fortunately, I’m crazy fast once I’ve really learned a model and I ended up folding them faster than he could glue them to the book.

Pretty cool to get to share in an art project and I think they’re turning out really well.