Well my doctor has been on vacation and the jerk that is filling in for him won’t give me anything to make this sinus infection go away.  There are notes in my file that say that I should be given antibiotics when I get sick, but he is refusing to honor the note.  When my regular doctor returns from vacation I am going to have to ask him to give me antibiotics to have on hand for when I get sick and he can’t be reached.  This is awful!

Well the weather is going crazy around here, cold mornings and warm afternoons.  The perfect season for catching colds, and yes, I’ve caught one myself!  And it’s a real doozy of a cold!  Whenever I catch a cold it immediately goes into a sinus infection and I’m miserable for several weeks.  I’ve got to try to get hold of my doctor and try to convince him to put me on antibiotics to shorten the misery, but my doctor is often reluctant to do that right away.  Wish me luck!  I’m pretty miserable!

My kids have been telling me that they found a website that converts audio and video files from one format to another.  They said it is a new program that is quick and easy to use, and that the company is offering a free trial download of the program.  They lost me when they started talking about video encoding. I’m embarrassed to say I don’t even know what video encoding is!  I feel so old!

Modern Bedroom Furniture is what my niece says she wants for her new apartment.  She is moving out of her parents’ house for the first time in a few months, and she is looking for modern furniture for her new place.  She came over yesterday to rummage around my basement and see if I had any “hand me down” furniture items she could have.  She says her biggest hope for her Modern Bedroom Furniture is to have a really great Modern Platform Bed.

She says she has been looking at furniture from the eroomservice.com website and has found several different platform beds that she likes a lot.  She hasn’t yet made up her mind which one she wants, but has narrowed it down to four favorites.  She said that the website sells some really nice bedroom sets and that she is trying to decide whether to buy the complete set, or just the bed and then try to do some mix and match with the rest of the bedroom furniture. 

She found a couple of modern lamps in my basement that she liked that I wasn’t using – my house isn’t decorated in the modern style, and these lamps were given to me by a friend.  I told her she was welcome to take them, and she was thrilled.

During the past couple of weeks our junk mail index has risen sharply.  It seems that the vast majority of the mail we have been getting is sales circulars, catalogs for Christmas items, or promotions for political campaigns.  What a waste of paper this is!  It all goes into the trash, mostly not even looked at.  There isn’t anyplace near where I live that I can take stuff like this to recycle, and it is sad to think of it all going to the dump.