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cathyr19355 at 03:41pm on 02/10/2010 under update
cathyr19355 at 03:41pm on 02/10/2010 under updateNow it's October.
Today will be a quiet day, I think, because I have a bad sore throat that's metamorphosing into a head cold. So does![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
esrblog. It's a shame, the weather is beautiful, but all I want to do is go back to bed. :-(
The rainstorm brought to us early on Thursday morning by tropical storm Nicole, alas, resulted in house leaks again. Minor so far, but in two of the same old places; along the front wall of the basement, and above the basement back window. Not sure what I can do about these things, except have a contractor frown at it again, and maybe find nothing doable.
Two weeks ago, my brake pedal started to give less and less performance and required more and more pressure. Since the car was due for inspection anyway, I took it in to the shop, and got horrifying news. A part (that looks like a thick Frisbee with two cogs sticking out of the top and bottom center) called a "brake booster" had failed, though they seldom do so. Unfortunately, the model of brake booster I need for my ten-year-old car is no longer made by Toyota, and as a result there was only one spare brake booster my car could use in the ENTIRE COUNTRY. My car was stuck at the shop for five days until one could be brought in by Federal Express. It cost $700. I also needed to have a tire replaced (to match the tire I'd had to hastily replace, earlier this summer, when it pancaked), and what with one bit of inspection-related labor and another, I needed to pay $1,400 to get my car back. Augh.
But other than all this, life is going well enough. My elderly cat is in reasonable health, my husband is blogging interestingly about wargaming, geek education videos, Terry Pratchett, the smartphone market wars, and other stuff. And did I mention that the weather is beautiful today?
Today will be a quiet day, I think, because I have a bad sore throat that's metamorphosing into a head cold. So does
esrblog. It's a shame, the weather is beautiful, but all I want to do is go back to bed. :-(The rainstorm brought to us early on Thursday morning by tropical storm Nicole, alas, resulted in house leaks again. Minor so far, but in two of the same old places; along the front wall of the basement, and above the basement back window. Not sure what I can do about these things, except have a contractor frown at it again, and maybe find nothing doable.
Two weeks ago, my brake pedal started to give less and less performance and required more and more pressure. Since the car was due for inspection anyway, I took it in to the shop, and got horrifying news. A part (that looks like a thick Frisbee with two cogs sticking out of the top and bottom center) called a "brake booster" had failed, though they seldom do so. Unfortunately, the model of brake booster I need for my ten-year-old car is no longer made by Toyota, and as a result there was only one spare brake booster my car could use in the ENTIRE COUNTRY. My car was stuck at the shop for five days until one could be brought in by Federal Express. It cost $700. I also needed to have a tire replaced (to match the tire I'd had to hastily replace, earlier this summer, when it pancaked), and what with one bit of inspection-related labor and another, I needed to pay $1,400 to get my car back. Augh.
But other than all this, life is going well enough. My elderly cat is in reasonable health, my husband is blogging interestingly about wargaming, geek education videos, Terry Pratchett, the smartphone market wars, and other stuff. And did I mention that the weather is beautiful today?
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Suck zinc at the first sign of an irritated throat. It prevents the movement of rhino viruses from the sinuses into the throat, from where they go on into the rest of the body.
Last I heard, the exact mechanism isn't known, but this treatment has passed multiple clinical studies.
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Keeping zinc on hand and sucking on one whenever I get a scratchy throat has essentially eliminated colds for me. Unfortunately, that doesn't work against bacteria.