Randy’s sick and has decided to try a method used to some success by his sister (and, though he doesnt’ know it, myself), which is simply to flat out deny that you’re sick.

x Upside: ‘officially’ sick much less.
x Downside: when an illness gets to a point where even you have to acknowledge it, it’s usually a city-flattening, flat-on-your-ass, sumbitch.

I’ve never had a name for this type of medical practice before, but I suppose now we can call it IraqiInformationMinisterology. Shorter than most of the medical specialty names I’ve dealt with in the last year.

Went to bed early. Don’t know why I bother as my body has apparently become accustomed to only getting six hours of sleep a night (at best), so I woke up at three am and couldn’t sleep.

Just spent the last hour catching up on my linkbar, which only happens about once a week now. I don’t know if I need a shorter linkbar or less inherent laziness.

Wrong wrong wrong. The method is Willpower, or I Am the Boss. You order your immune system to DESTROY all the little f****rs (germs or virii) and give yourself extra sleep, water, zinc, nourishment or whatnot to get the job done. The thing is, I can feel my body respond. Changes the sort of tired, defeated feeling of, "Damn, this cold's got me," to, "This bug is TOAST." Self-hypnosis trolling for a good placebo effect. Works fairly well if you catch it at the right time.

Zinc. Damn, I forgot the zinc.

Tea, too. Black tea evidently increases the immune response system.

Not that I need it. Nope. Not at all. All's fine here. How are you?

So that explains the lack of Randy posting to CryHavoc...

Salsa...Salsa is also good for a cold.

Salsa's good for everything.

And to hear Randy tell it, he's not posting because he's working on some ideas that aren't of the posting type... more of the 'cackling evilly and scribbling in a notebook' type.

I was confusing your technique and mine, Randy.

I'm the one who just ignores the whole thing.

Me: I'm not sick, therefore I'm not resting. In fact, I'm going to the gym now, and I'll be staying up late playing Tribes 2 tonight, in fact.

Body: B-but...

Me: Shut up and handle it.

Body: *sigh*

Plus...

Randy claims to have found Zinc stuff that does not taste horrible...

Another way to stay healty.

Find a job that has about a tenth of the stress of the last job, where you work only 40 hours a week instead of 60 to 120, and not working in a sick building.

They're the "Sav-On" generic brand zinc lozenges available all over the place in lemon-lime and cherry. Jackie prefers the cherry, a clear sign of insanity. The lemon-lime taste like candy compared to Cold-Eez. They only taste good once you've become addicted to the immune system boost. Well, maybe not "good". "Tolerable".