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Sudafed Gonna Knock You Out
January 27, 2006

I’ve had a mild cough for the past couple of days, something that my recently discovered homeopathic remedy Airborne didn’t kick.

I looked through the medicine cabinet at home and found surprisingly little in the way of remedies. Berta has been on a frenzy of throwing out over-the-counter drugs that even look like they’re expired. I have to hide bottles of ibuprofen just to keep them around when I need them. I figured I could probably do without any cough medicine, but finally on Wednesday I was done being bothered by it.

On the way home from work I stopped at Eckerd (Doesn’t everyone else like the name “Thrift Drug” better than “Eckerd”? What were they thinking?) to look through their drug selection.

One of the things I like to do when I’m shopping for drugs is to compare the drug contents of the various pills. It’s amazing how much the drug store is a marketing paradise.

Four Things
January 26, 2006

Jenn decided that it would be a good idea for me to reveal many of my innermost secrets by participating in this meme. I hope you find the results educational.

Four jobs that I’ve had

  1. Answering Service Operator
  2. Country Club Bus Boy
  3. Meat Slicer at Arby's
  4. Coupon Book Graphic Designer

Clearly, none of those jobs are things that I’ve done recently.

Four movies I can watch over and over

  1. Strange Days
  2. Can't Hardly Wait
  3. A Knight's Tale
  4. Shakespeare in Love

Hey, you didn’t say they all had to be good movies…

Kid Food
January 26, 2006

Berta and I are dismayed at the types of food that Abby will eat. This article will likely prove itself as historically useful for when Abby is older.

These days, Abby’s favorite food is the griled cheese sandwich. We try very hard to convince her to eat other things, but she isn’t very interested in that. Whenever we go out to eat, it must be someplace that serves grilled cheese or we risk the tantrum that accompanies the lack of adequate food choices.

Abby will often eat macaroni and cheese, but not the kind that comes from a can. She will not eat mac and cheese from Wawa, which means it probably comes from a can or is prepared in a similar fashion. She will not eat mac and cheese that contains tomatos (Sound weird? Dice a small tomato and try it!), but she will cover her mac and cheese in seasonings if given the opportunity, and then not it it because it is too spicy.

Abby does not eat spicy foods. Spicy foods often have some extra sugar or salt - not any particularly spicy spices - or are carbonated. Soda is not a drink that Abby enjoys, and she often questions my worth as a human for drinking such a vile concoction.

RedAlt Move and Limit Categories
January 24, 2006

I moved the bulk of Red Alt to the Asymptomatic server last night because I got tired of that unmanaged server going down. The Asymptomatic server is managed, and so should get better attention when things go awry.

This also allows me to house a more permanent subversion repository (if that means anything to you) for all of the PHP development I do around here.