Domestic Geek

I find that as I get older, my poor old joints pain me horribly when the weather gets cold. In fact, I can always tell when a front is coming through when that familiar ache in my left knee begins to start. Being overweight, having several stupid accidents when I was younger because I'm a klutz and a family history of arthritis...all contributing factors to my deteriorated joint health. You should hear my ankles and knees pop. *shudder*

When an old dog I used to have, an Alaskan Malamute, begain having trouble walking due to arthritis in her hips, I changed her diet to a food that contained Glucosamine and Chondroitin. I was amazed at how little time (only a few weeks) her condition and ability to get around improved.

Ever since I saw the way those ingredients improved her life, I've been meaning to find a joint pain supplement for myself. I found a product called Synotrex that I'm interested in trying. In addition to Glucosamine and Chondroitin, the product as contains several other natural ingredients designed to rebuild cartilege and reduce pain and swelling.

I know that once I begin taking a supplement such as this, combined with my continued weight loss, I'll save myself from a future of being crippled by irreparable joint damage.

Man, I'm a good cook, if I do say so myself. The chili came out excellent! It really hit the spot on this cold, blustery evening. I've been dragging out watching the Gilmore Girls all evening. I just don't have the enthusiasm about that show that I used to have. The show is really stupid this season and it makes me sad. I guess it's a good thing that this is supposed to be its last season. They better not pull the same crap they did with 7th Heaven, though. You don't have a series finale and then say, "Hey, we had more viewers than we thought. Maybe we should bring it back." I watched the last few episodes to see if any of those stupid, dysfunctional people actually straightened out and they didn't. I haven't watched a single episode this season.

Isn't it amazing how long permanent marker smell lasts? I used one several hours ago and the fumes are still making me woozy.

So, we're getting our first real snow of the season today here in Denver. Brrrrr. I stopped stalling and went to the grocery store to get chili fixins for dinner. Mmmmm-yummay! When I become among the employed, I'm going to start utilizing King Sooper's home delivery again. I HATE GROCERY SHOPPING WITH A PASSION! I always forget something I needed way over on the other side of the store, everybody is standing right in front of where I need to be, checkers with a line a mile long wanting to make small talk instead of ringing up my groceries...ugh! Marcus and I used to make a list of what meals we were going to have for the week, we'd add things to the shopping list as we thought of them and a couple of days before we needed them, we'd set up a delivery. The delivery driver brings all of the stuff in, it's bagged pretty well (none of this one item to a bag nonsense) and the shelves were stocked without having to deal with crowds of people. It cuts down on impulse spending, too. Those cookies can't call to you if you're not looking at them.

All right, on to something more pleasant (well, the aftermath of a nuclear bomb is not pleasant...just clarifying).

I'm starting to notice that I watch CBS a lot—when did that happen? I also noticed that I do not watch a single show regularly on ABC. Only an occasional Supernanny when nothing else is on. Hm.

Anyway, the week before last I caught my first episode of Jericho. I hadn't heard a thing about it and didn't know what it was about. I guess the US was attacked by nuclear bombs and the show is about what happens afterward in a small town named Jericho. In the episode I saw, a brief news report they saw on a satellite feed from Japan showed that one of the bombs had hit Denver. Boy, did that send chills up my spine. I knew on Wednesday, I had planned on watching again, but for the life of me, I couldn't remember what I had wanted to see. While watching Without a Trace yesterday (I actually got the whole show on the later recording time), I caught a Jericho commercial and was instantly reminded. Whoops. Fortunately, Jericho is one of the shows that the CBS website shows in their entirety. I can't watch them on the Mac here because I refuse to install the Real Player plugin, but at some point I did install it on the laptop. I think it was to see something about Harry Potter. Anyway, I wish they would put all shows up that way. Of course, I watch too much television as it as. Maybe it's good that they don't.

Just as I said before, the HTML comment formatting buttons would be fixed when Marcus came home. Although he didn't actually spot the problem, having him looking over my shoulder as I talked him through my code allowed me to see the error. Yes, a simple missing right curly brace broke my CSS. Isn't that always the way? I wasted so much time today staring at that durned page. Grrrrr.

If you edit css alot and use Firefox, may I suggest the Web Developer Extension? Using the "edit css" funtion is great for isolating errors, playing with margin/padding or checking colors without having to edit and save your actual CSS each time. You can also have it outline block level elements to see if something funky is happening or show you the class names being used. It's pretty cool. The thing is a real time saver for me.

Now that that is fixed, I'm going to go try and get some sleep.