dummy lights

During the time I worked as a network geek, there was a period when I was under extreme stress (selling house, moving, living out of a hotel, working all hours with little help). I was burning the candle at both ends in the middle of a blast furnace. I was always going to bed with headaches. But I knew I was in serious trouble when I woke up one morning with a blown blood vessel coloring one entire side of my left eye. From that day on, when I got stressed, my eyebrow or eyelid would twitch right above that side of my eye. If the stress didn't go away, soon my eye would start to throb.

Inadvertently, I installed a blood pressure dummy light. Don't do this at home kids. Go out and buy a blood pressure cuff instead.

This morning at work my eyebrow started to twitch (which BTW is really f'ing irritating and does nothing to reduce blood pressure). The stress went on. Beat, beat, beat. Suck.

I believe I will try radical potato therapy. It's one of the few things I haven't tried over the last two weeks.

In unrelated news: I pulled a whole boatload of small bamboo shoots tonight after work. That's was kind of fun and strenuous, although maybe not as strenuous as I needed.

hot and steamy

It's not all bad. The healthier of the two Hot Thai plants has decided to try to reproduce! Two sets of beautiful delicate petals. I anticipate hot... curries.

"None can court me and few have tried,
but I keep these homestead hopes alive." - M. Shocked

sometimes I can be real sweet, other times I can be real trashy

( Well, you may be a lover, but you ain't no dancer. )