Originally Posted by
eighty+
Hi. Has anybody.heard From Capt'n. Mac. D'askey. Lately from Calefornia. As I read they were
Having trouble with a gas leak. And had to move. People out of the Area. .??
Boy oh boy. . . talk about "the shot heard round the world". Yeah, I had a whole passel of Mexican food. You could call it a gas leak, but to have made headline news in jolly ol' pip pip eh wot?
Just I ain't El Niño! Nay, lad. I'm gonna switch back ta 'aggis and there will be far less seismic activity here abouts, oh aye. And fewer tabloid accounts of this particular strange gastric anomaly.
But thanks for askin'.
I actually got bit by a brown recluse spider, and man, you NEVER want to be bit by one of those. The bastard bit me 6 times near my ankle. My leg's only now recovering to were I don't have to hobble around and I got some swelling that I'm keeping an eye on. Nothing the docs can do either but give me antibiotics for the swelling. No anti-venom exists. I just bought a bunch of traps and an preparing to spray the house and yard.
I had been collecting old tree wood to carve and that may have been what attracted it (or worse "them"). Will see what the traps show up getting caught.
You know, there's a bizarre positive twist to this business though. The docs gave me all kinds of blood tests and so on and all my numbers which were sort of bad around November had suddenly snapped back to perfect. So there MAY be some medicinal benefit to it. Might be my body just rallied to fight it off and everything got rebooted, or it may be there is something beneficial in that venom that nobody's yet looked at -- though I would suspect if there is it would be in small doses.
Anyway, so between that, some bronchial bug and losing a dear friend, I have only been able to glimpse in over the last few weeks.
Again thanks for asking. I'm much better now and ready to launch my counter offensive against the bloody arachnid.
"Not a bit is wasted and the best is yet to come. . ." -- remembered from a dream