Home sick

[amethyst73]

I spent today being home sick from work.  The first Nyquil dose that I took last night (around 9) helped only marginally; I probably got bits of sleep between 10:30ish and 4ish - at which point I took another dose, and slept much more soundly till the alarm went off at 8:15.  I'd pretty much decided last night that I was going to stay home today, so that wasn't a hard decision to follow up on.

It was a good idea.  I felt overall better today than I did yesterday (sans drugs, even!), but still definitely not healthy, and very tired.  Had a nice doze after the huz left, from 10 to 11:30.  After messing around on the Interwebs and having lunch, I decided to take a shower and get into street clothes, after which I took out some recycling and even went for a bit of a walk... after which I came home, got a good long drink, and went down for another hour-long doze.

I had a snack, and read some more of havenstone's book Opium Season, which I'm really enjoying.  Joel does a great job of keeping it interesting by mixing history of the region with his personal experience and the stories (incredibly amazing, touching, or funny) about his coworkers trying to provide alternative means of income to Afghanis living in one of the most prolific opium poppy regions of the country.  Great stuff; I can think of a couple of people who will be receiving copies of this for Christmas.

Then I went and did Zelda for a while.  Dang, fighting Zant (boss of the next-to-last temple) was looooooooong!  Haven't met a boss who had more than two stages before...  I think the ice stage was hardest, mostly because it was hard to catch up to TinyZant and whack him before he disappeared; it's not like he managed to stomp on me too much.  The Magic Armor was definitely a help, particularly in the bits where the only time to bring Zant down to whack him is when he's firing energy balls at you.  Magic Armor finally ran out of rupees on the final stage, and I completed the battle with around 4-5 hearts out of an original 17.  Still have no idea whether a fairy-in-a-bottle fully heals you if you completely run out of hearts.  Midna is now VERY POWERFUL, and I hope to heaven I don't ever have to fight her!

I've got the files for my latest solo project, George MacDonald's long short story "The Shadows" in at archive.org, but the page is unavailable due to system slowness.  Archive.org, which hosts *all* of Librivox's sound files, has been having a lot of problems recently.. lots of unavailable pages, which means unavailable files.  I hope they're able to make things happier soon... :(

Now the huz is home, we've had tasty soup, and we can think about bed in not too many hours!

Oh, and one nice discovery I actually made yesterday: Orisinal: Morning Sunshine is a site with a whole bunch of very pretty, almost entirely nonviolent Flash games that are great when only half a brain cell is working.  You can herd cats.  Feed ducks.  Bounce stars on bubbles.  Be a little rabbit, hopping up bells that are falling from the sky.  Collect sugar cubes for tea.  Help deer cross a stream.  All with pretty pastel-style art and nice (if eventually repetitive) music.  Great stuff for when you don't feel well.

Comments

[feir-fireb.livejournal.com]

Orsinal is excellent. It's also so darned sweet, innocent and soothing that it's a great balm for when you're really stressed. Even when you're really into a game and it's so tough that it's frustrating, it's still soothing.

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I think it's a combo of the art and the innocence/nonviolence.