The pollen count is ridiculously high. Everything is a nasty yellowish green. Monday I did a drive thru car wash after buying gas on my way to a meeting. Yesterday, my vehicle was back to being yellow-green in color. I could use the ice scraper to get the pollen off of the windows of my car.
How bad is the pollen? Yesterday I had to come home around lunchtime to get some things I had left here. Heading back downtown I decide to stop at a burger joint. The main exit with the most fastfood places between my house and downtown is also home to people selling drugs or their bodies. As I am waiting for my order, I notice a group of women working their particular area of sidewalk. One had on her booty shorts and a bare midriff top. As she was attempting to wave down cars with one hand, the other hand was holding up a surgical mask. I wish I had a camera on me to take a photo.
I assume that the surgical mask was to lessen the effects of the pollen but I could be wrong. Would it hinder her normal clientele to see her with a mask on? Would the johns even think that maybe she has some kind of communicable disease? I guess if they thought that they wouldnt be stopping to pick her or her coworkers up anyway.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Swimming
This past weekend the wife and I took a little trip. We went to south Florida. Although we did go to a hockey game, the trip was also a chance for us to get away for a while.
The Florida Panthers' arena is in the middle of nowhere which means there are no hotels close by (but it does mean free parking at the arena). We ended up staying about 10-15 minutes away at a nice hotel with a heated, rooftop pool. We checked into the hotel, ate lunch, and I got to swim for the first time in over two and a half years.
While I was on hemodialysis I had to be careful about getting my port wet (no showers and no swimming). When I was on peritonial dialysis I was told to avoid swimming, too. So the hotel having a heated pool meant swimming for me in early March. It was great.
And for those that may ask, yes anti-rejection drugs do raise your chances of getting skin cancer (of course having a fair complexion helps raise the chances too) and yes I was wearing waterproof sunscreen with an SPF of 5 million.
The Thrashers lost the game but swimming almost made up for that.
The Florida Panthers' arena is in the middle of nowhere which means there are no hotels close by (but it does mean free parking at the arena). We ended up staying about 10-15 minutes away at a nice hotel with a heated, rooftop pool. We checked into the hotel, ate lunch, and I got to swim for the first time in over two and a half years.
While I was on hemodialysis I had to be careful about getting my port wet (no showers and no swimming). When I was on peritonial dialysis I was told to avoid swimming, too. So the hotel having a heated pool meant swimming for me in early March. It was great.
And for those that may ask, yes anti-rejection drugs do raise your chances of getting skin cancer (of course having a fair complexion helps raise the chances too) and yes I was wearing waterproof sunscreen with an SPF of 5 million.
The Thrashers lost the game but swimming almost made up for that.
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