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Happy Thanksgiving, USians! Canadians, happy belated Thanksgiving that I couldn’t be arsed to acknowledge at the time because I live in the US!

Anyway, because it is my weblog, I am posting a list of my CDs. All of them. My SO accused me having “really good taste”, but I think what he means is “dayum, you are such a cheap bastard that the only CDs you actually bought are ones you knew you liked already and you waited until like two years after they came out so you could get used copies.”

By artist, in no particular order, where “no particular”==”alphabetical”.

• Tori Amos: Boys for Pele. This was a hand-me-down from an ex, and I can’t quite bring myself to use it as a coaster.
• The entire Beatles Anthology.
• The Crystal Method: Keep Hope Alive and Vegas
• Depeche Mode: Catching up with Depeche Mode, Ultra and that giant singles compilation thing that I can’t find the case to
• Ani Difranco: selftitled
• Some Eva Trout album that hasn’t got a title printed on it. I blame my ownership of this on Lagisimo
• Jaya Lakshmi: Ocean of Mercy; a pretty Krishna devotee singing pretty religious chants
• Aimee Mann: Whatever (picked to round out the mp3s the SO sent me)
• the Gin Blossoms: Congratulations I’m Sorry; my brother perma-borrowed New Miserable Experience
• Glenn Gould playing “The Mozart Sontas, vol II”.
• The Orb: Orblivion
• Orbital: selftitled
• Fito Paez: Euforia. I bought this in Argentina when I was 13.
• REM: Automatic for the People
• Rudolf Serkin playing various Beethoven sonatas.
• Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge over Troubled Water and Sounds of Silence
• Bruce Springsteen: Born in the USA. A birthday present from an ex who’s passed on now. For that alone, I can’t use it as a coaster, and I actually do like to listen to it once a year or so.
• U2: Achtung Baby, Pop and War. The first chunky geek I ever had a crush on left War in his car’s CD player for months, at least every time he gave me a ride home from working on the school paper.
• Underworld: Everything, Everything
• A couple CDs that fell out of a paper publication titled URB
• Urbal Beats: The Definitive Guide to Electronic Music. Yeah, whatever. It reminds me of the good parts of high school. You know, those entire five days or so.
• Utah Saints: selftitled, which was almost worth it for “Trance Atlantic Glide” alone
• Vitro: Distort, which i just barely retrieved from an ex’s car CD player in time
• A burned copy of Weezer’s Blue Album. Looks like a relic from an ex.

I superficially agree with esr on something.

I am so embarassed.

From this week’s Dave Barry column:

Go to any drugstore or supermarket, and you’ll find a vast array of cold and flu products that, for your safety, you must stab open with a knife. These products work by attacking the cold or flu virus with large chemical names such as “acetominophen”, “dextromethorphan”, “pseudoephedrine”, “phenylpropanolamine”, “diphenhydramine”, and “chlorpheniramine”, which, when they get into your bloodstream, break apart into smaller chemical units called “syllables,” which roam around until eventually your body turns them into fat.

Were I in polite company, I would hesitate to admit that I not only recognize all of those generic drug names and can rememember uses, actions and brand names, but have also handled them all in the last week—but I’m not; I’m on the goddamn internet. And I’m polysyllabic, so I should be protected from colds.

Because I’ve been fainting quite a bit lately, I went to my GP this morning. I had some blood drawn for iron levels, thyroid panel and some other stuff, and then, to rule out arrhythymia (or however it’s spelled), an EKG.

Then, to rule out other heart issues, I got sent to the cardiac centre where I was hooked up to a portable heart monitor that’s recording my thoracic electrical activity for the next 21 hours or so. It is bulky. The electrodes itch. I’m glad I showered this morning, because I’m not allowed to again until this lot comes off.

If you have a child who requires a certain medication, and this medication can only be prepared by a compounding pharmacy, and the pharmacy you go to has never prepared this medication before, and you do not have a proven formula handy, then please do not come in at 5:15 when we close at 6:00.

If your child requires this medication upon pain of possible neurological damage, you should have come in yesterday. If your child has already missed three doses, you should have come in three days ago.

If your child has already missed three doses, you are an idiot.