There are days that I hate my life...

...and this is one of them. Last night I started feeling a bit queasy and headachy, so I turned in early. I was greeted in the middle of the night with a horrendous sore throat, huge intestinal cramps and a headache that felt like someone had managed to shove a torpedo into my ear. Right now I am feeling completely miserable and getting worse. I've been through this before, and while it is usually not long lasting, it makes living a living hell and generally ruins my day. By the time I get to see the doc, it's mostly passed and blamed variously on unspecified reactions to food. These are totally random, with no correlations that I can put my finger on. All I know is that this shit's getting old. I am this==><==close to putting my fist through a wall/door. Again.

Salvaging the day

Rather than moping around the house halfheartedly cacking up my lungs, I mustered the energy to take the MINI all the way up to the Towson dealership for some warranty work that it needed. I had a little laundry list of mostly minor and cosmetic issues as well as two minor recalls involving emissions control devices. I have to say that of any dealership or other dealings regarding warranty work, Towson is the most efficient and accomodating. I also got a rather nice loaner car:



Too bad the weather today was teh sux0rz compared to yesterday, or I woulda been top-down wind-in-the-face-fur all the way home. It's not like I would have caught a cold or anything, since, well, I already have one apparently.

Wha?

Zero-emissions coal fired power plants? I didnt think it would be possible to generate power by letting coal just sit in a pile.

Dumb, ya? Dumbya.