I am recently (as in today) recovered from a troublesome spot of food poisoning, and am feeling pretty good. I'm attempting to catch up on stuff--bills, dishes, general tidying, maintenance on my worm composter, etc, and figured I'd add 'posting on the blog' to the list.
The episode of the malevolent food took me quite by surprise. We had gone to a bbq at a friend's place, and enjoyed some very fun company and some very delicious food. All kinds of food. And too much of all kinds of food. I also got to introduce a little kid to some ladybugs, much to his mom's dismay. At some point several hours later, I woke to some highly distressing stomach cramps, followed by vomiting and associated problems. This lasted for hours, followed by a day or two of more cramping and general unsettled-ness. Not sure what the culprit was, but it was it was something that I found pretty appealing at the time.
Tonight, after a bout of therapeutic composting (my cure-all for just about everything) I feel way better. I'm introducing about 50 new compost worms to my indoor composter, courtesy of my kind compost-and-worm mentor Mike. I'd kinda forgotten about my indoor composter for a bit. Not a huge deal, they can survive for a good while, but they weren't really thriving. Time to start 'er up again and have a go at worm-bin 2.0!
I've only just thought of it, but this is one of countless indulgences I'm allowed. As far as I recollect, one day Byron came home and was told 'hey honey, I built a worm bin!' and all of a sudden there were 200 worms living under our kitchen sink. His audio buddies should take pointers and learn that if they would allow their spouses to be a little nuts in their own ways, they'd have a far less difficult time justifying their audiophile craziness. :)
I'm still loving my tinybook; it goes with me almost every day to work and on my varied adventures. It's good for emailing and surfing and working, but I'm a little dismayed to find that it and facebook don't get along very well. I'm finding the touch-screen (instead of a mouse) pretty easy to use, and I'm coming to appreciate the subtler keyboard. And, of course, I really love the portability of it :)
I'm looking forward to using tinybook on my trip north next week. I'm getting to go away to work! I'm so psyched! What's hilarious is that it's a trip to Sudbury and Elliot Lake with my boss. Doesn't matter really. I'm getting compensated pretty well to get on a plane and leave my regular job for a week to perform the aspect of my job that I think I'm really good at (ie. dealing with old people and non-big city people), and..and...Sudbury! I was there as a child, I have photos of me in the Big Nickel Jail! (as a tourist, not an inmate). Science North is there (I'm picturing a sort of less-glamourous Ontario Science Centre, but I could be way off), and I hear it's Canadian Shield -wild blueberries-and-fishing type of country--if I can find a quiet place to breathe deeply and see what's around, I'lll be happy.
We are plagued by fruitflies, absolutely overrun with them. It is a bit exasperating. We, we who live-trap mice and release them in parks, who catch spiders and put them outside, who chase errant bumblebees in the house with pieces of paper to escort them out of doors, we are bent on destroying these fruitflies with yellow sticky paper. I know we will emerge victorious.
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