KingLou Drops Science 2.0

I was just reading my last entry. D'OH! I said they wouldn't strike. Shows you what I know about city politics. The transit strike is still in full effect. I haven't been to work in 3 days. I took monday off and I am glad I did. I was sick and I managed to get some xmas shopping done. I was pretty positive they wouldn't strike but boy was I wrong. I read some shit in the times that made me understand why they rejected the last proposal from the MTA. It was a nice change to hear something other than what the TV channels are churning out. Basically each channel just keeps showing how the city is suffering. The Times article showed how the MTA had a good deal on the table and then at the last minute added a deal buster condition that the Union couldn't go along with. Both sides of this whole thing are being fuckers. They should be in the fucking debate room with no food or water until they figure it out. Anyway, I haven't made the 10 mile bike ride to work since the strike hit. Luckily I have lots of vacation saved up soi it ain't hurting the pocket book. I am not looking forward to walking across the Brooklyn bridge tomorrow but I have to head in because the school is closed friday and I need to pick up some shit I left there last week. So tomorrow morning I'll don the old winter biking gear and head into forbidden city. Ace and I both got sick this weekend. Ace's diagnosis was "Bronchiolitis" which is probably what I got, too. But when kids contract it the symptoms are much worse. Nasty egg-white-like snot blowing out of both nostrils and then when that is over a barking cough. I went from sore throat to harsh cough. We're both on the path to recovery but it made for a shitty weekend. Ace actually coughed himself into barfing up his evening milk. He managed to hold it down until Jodi was holding him so she got covered in stomach cheese. The vomit-o-philes amoung you may now service yourselves. It was pretty gross. I managed to get a good nights sleep due to my own self-medicating with codiene cough syrup. It's awesome. I'll say it again. If you are in Maine then go to a pharmacy and get some of the stuff. It's available OTC and it works wonders. to quote my old blog 2001-10-01 - 8:38 a.m. I just got back from what should have been a delightful vacation with my wife in New Hampshire. Unfortunately about a day before we were supposed to leave I came down with some kind of fucking bronchitis. I coughed all the way during the 5 hour drive up from New York to Rye, NH. And let me tell you it sucked and then some. I tried to enjoy myself in the beautiful surroundings and clean fresh air but every breath I took ended in a wheezy death rattle of a cough. I tried to sleep thought the night but this cough was just laughing at Nyquil and all other Dextomethorphan based cough syrups. My mouth as raw from constantly sucking lozenges. After almost going to the emergency room from desperation I was informed that the lovely state of maine sells cough syrup w/ CODINE in it over the counter without a perscription! Needless to say we drove right across the border and bought a delihtful bottle of cough syrup. The only question asked was "have you bought a bottle of this in the last 2 hours?" Awesome. I took it and soon felt the urge to cough melt away. I ask you why isn't it available over the counter here in NYC? The stuff is great. It should be an over the counter thing. Supposedly there's an addiction possibility but I think that'd be pretty hard to do with a bottle of cough syrup. Of course if you're determined to choke down bottle after bottle in order to become adddicted then more power to you. But that shouldn't stop the rest of us from buying cough medicine that is way more effective than DM. I spent about $30 on cough syrup that didn't seem to so shit that this one $8 bottle of codine cough syrup did and I'm still waiting for my mouth to heal from all the damn cough drops. DAMN! So here's to Maine and it's progessive over the counter medicine practices!" xmas shopping is pretty much locked up. This year Jodi and I made a little deal to cap spending at a reasonable and very low #. We're retardedly broke these days. Since it's been so cold and heating prices are so fucking insanely high we keep getting slammed with increases here at the co-op. Well I hit that mxas max$# early and I just wrapped the presents... It is the shittiest, smallest pile of gifts ever. I am feeling my knee jerk reaction to need to go out and buy more presents but I am going to resist. Last year I really over did it so this is the converse solution. Ace is going to make out to a silly level. Stupid even. We moved all his toys into his room and now he always wants us to be in there with him. It's adorable and highly irriatating at the same time. I am like "Lets play in the living room" and he is like "No, daddy. Come with me!" and then he takes me by the hand and commands me to sit with him in his room while he does a series of books readings or other fun games. Johnny Damon is a Yankee. I hate pro athletes. They always say they want to stay but they really want the most money they can get. Fucking whores. I guess the Yankees gave him $12 Million more than the Sox offered. Babylon System. George Steinbrenner should be punched in the wallet until it's in his chest cavity. I leave you with this delightful message from my acquaintance Daniel Ames. My (Son) has gone ripshit about Christmas and insists on adding more decorations to the tree every day. I've never seen a tree gagging so hard for the fucking tree bag and a quiet century of decomposition in a landfill. I love the idea of a spiteful Xmas tree. "Hang shit on me will you?! Have some needles on your floor, fag!" Sigh....