Just Another Herd Creature

“Which is healthier: the dust inside, or the dust outside?

The outside stuff is actually healthier.  Household dust is just plain icky: it contains flecks of sand and other natural particulates, but also bits of dead insects, human skin, animal fur, even tiny remnants of food.  Worst still the dust spawns a completely specialized life form: the creepy critter called the dust mite, the cause of many allergies and, it is believed of a significant number of asthma cases.”

Therefore, hunting and destroying dust bunnies is a good thing!  Me thinks it’s time to run the “move and clean the air” part of our heating/AC system on a more regular basis.  Our house is old enough and we haven’t replaced all the windows (yet), that I think we get a fair amount of outside air exchange – our PG&E bill during the cold months probably supports this.

Do you have a song that you HAVE to sing along with whenever and wherever you hear it?  I do.  Don McLean's "American Pie".  If I'm alone, I will sing it at the top of my lungs, otherwise, I try to be considerate and not torture the ears of all creatures within hearing range.  There is just something about that song that MAKES me sing.  Maybe because I was 15 when it was popular.  Maybe because it captures a moment in time and place so well, so vividly.  Whatever the reason, it compels me, as no other song does, to sing along.

Not a record, but more sleep than he's gotten in his own bed in about 16 days.  Now he's up and having some trouble.  He needs to cough it up, but after an hour of trying, there's still too much there to lay down again.  Don't know what we're going to do next.

He's home, but not doing well.  He still can't sleep, although he's dozing in his chair right now.  He thinks he's getting worst again.  It's all very hard to figure out.  His anxiety level is high, his doctor called in a prescription for xanics (i know the spelling is wrong, but I'm too tired to figure it out), but he did something wrong and they wouldn't fill it.  Guy called the on-call doctor (it was after office hours by this time), but they didn't  have any records to check so they wouldn't call it in.  We don't know if this would have helped or not.  If he's really getting worst, then he needs something else done.  
And just to add to the drama, the prescription from the hospital doctor for antibiotics didn't have Guy's name on it, so they wouldn't fill the prescription.  We'll write his name on it and get it filled tomorrow, but still one more frustrating thing - poor serene went to the drug store for nothing.

I did get about 7 hours of sleep and plan to lay down for another hour or two this morning before the process starts all over again.  And I have to get into the office this morning for a little bit.  One of the few things I do that few others do, has to be done this morning (payroll related).  My boss (one of those people) is out of town until Friday.  And I'm in charge of a retirement party happening Thursday night.  I have to make some arraignments for that too.