Out of The PIT

I've been selling stuff on Kijiji and Craig's List for quite some time now, but recently have had a couple of strange responses. One asked to pay by Paypal, which raised alarm bells. Right on the Kijiji response e-mail it mentioned that you should always make all transactions in person and in cash, so I looked up the name and found an interesting post online. I think I'll be ignoring any responses from this point on..

Okay now this is getting silly, I haven't been at 152 since university. But my spare tire was much smaller then as well. Where did all that weight disappear from? My head?

So it is Christmas and I have spent the entire day at home. I am still sick, although not as bad as yesterday, or the day before, or etc. Since Friday I have had the flu. I felt better on Monday morning, but mistakenly went to work and over the course of the day got worse until I headed home early. Now another byproduct of this illness was first my loss of appetite, and in addition to that I had to bow out of all but one Christmas banquet so far this season. So a byproduct of this byproduct was that I have lost fifteen pounds in the past month . I'm not sure how much of that was from the flu since I hadn't weighed myself in a while but I'm guessing most of that was muscle mass. Staying in bed does wonders (the negative type) on your muscles. Now that MJNL is sick, I will be staying home a little longer. Hopefully things will get better tomorrow.

My mom came up to me with her iPhone and asked me how she could call somebody with it. What a strange question! She has had the phone for several months now, but I guess never tried dialing with it. Anyhoo, she saw the phone icon, and picked out the number to call. Then while the call was being made, he'd the phone in front of her face and asked if it was working. It was. Then why is it so quiet? It's because you're not using the speaker phone, otherwise you can use it like a regular phone. But why is it so quiet? I am paraphrasing here but the conversation was taking many minutes to play out. I had to physicallly move the phone to her ear and even the she was confused asking if she was supposed to speak into the speaker, all the while my aunt was on the other end of the call listening in. I guess saying "use it like a phone" is lost on people who only use non-smart phones?

I remember watching part of Why Man Creates in my grade 7 or 8 science class. I have been meaning to look it up for many years now but each time I remember to look for it, I never write it down and it drops out of my memory. The last trigger was when MJNL was talking about Pasteur's Quadrant and that brought to mind the line "I'm a bug, I'm a germ, I'm a bug, I'm a germ... [indrawn breath] Louis Pasteur . I'm not a bug, I'm not a germ..." I actually was meaning to write it down right then and there but there were other things on the go and I forgot. Last night while I was sleeping I recalled that I wanted to remember something that I've been trying to remember for a while. The moment that quote came to mind, I quickly wrote it down, and I was able to look it up this morning. Finally!

The afternoon rush does not look much better. Still slow in the snow in Toronto. And so I go.

MJNL found some interesting tea last month. Oh yeah! She did not purchase any. Also, I found something really interesting on the container for my fuel stabilizer. The instructions are in metric, but the measuring part of the container is in imperial. mL or oz? So one must either know the conversion rates or guess?

For the second major storm for the city, we have a bit of a slowdown in traffic. It was slow with snow in Toronto. I'm sure that it could have been worse.