when lemmings serve you herring

So the trip to the Rochester Institute of Technology did not actually end up happening.

We got back from the Grand Oasis Palm Cancun and I was very sick with a fever, headache, sore throat and some very ineffective coughing. I had started to get sick the third to last day in Mexico with it getting particularly bad the last day.

Instead of driving to Rochester Thursday morning I drove to see a doctor who did a strep test whose quick response came up negative.

I went back on Sunday morning to complain that still I wasn't doing much better and found that the more comprehensive 48 hour strep test also came up negative. The doctor on Sunday did a more thorough investigation but could find nothing that could be treated antibiotically.

Here we are Thursday again and I'm mostly better; the fever is gone, as is the headache, but I'm left with a pesky cough that I fear I will not be rid of in some time.

Tomorrow and Saturday are the last two days that the robot that my son's Robotics Team compete. Their robot was not particularly effective this year as I watched last weeks tournament from afar. They may have made some adjustments, so we'll see if there is any improvement tomorrow. I will see if I can post a video to show you.

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yep, like a moron playing golf in his underwear

We will have arrived at around 11AM in Cancun, Wednesday morning. The resort we are staying at, the Oasis Palm, has internet available at a rather exorbitant price, so it isn't likely that we will have paid for any.

Once I get back on the 15th of March, my son and I will be heading south to Rochester, NY, for a Robotics tournament where the hotel I'll be staying at does have internet at no charge, so I may return to post then.

In the mean time, I have these pre-posted posts.

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drop the kilocalories

So yes, I'm off to Cancun next Wednesday.

If you can believe it, I've lowered my caloric intake of sustenance in order to slim. Some would argue, why bother? Others would argue, what difference will it make? A third may ask, to what end? A fourth might say simply: motivation? A fifth may even counter - isn't that what women do? A sixth could even ask, why blog about it? A seventh could say, who cares? An eighth would likely say I don't need to slim further. A ninth would wish me luck while a tenth person would ask for the details of how I am going about it.

1. I don't have a compelling reason to do this, nor a compelling reason not to.
2. A difference it will make is that I will have lower body fat percentage.
3. To what end? To lower body fat, I guess.
4. Motivation? To start the vacation at a lower point so that by the end I would end up where I am now.
5. Yes; to get their 'beach body', I suppose I could have one too.
6. I blog about it because I know that there isn't more than one or two people that actually read this, so there isn't a big difference between posting this and not posting it.
7. I'd agree with that person.
8. It is true I already have a fairly low BMI score (~22), and from other people's perspectives I appear just fine, but whose body is this that I am living with? Ought I not to take better care?
9. Thanks.
10. I'm having a light breakfast of Dad's cookies and a banana. I'm having a light lunch of lettuce and cherry tomatoes and a can of Coca-Cola, and at supper I'm eating normally but making an effort to have a somewhat reduced portion (unless it is vegetables) and to not over eat.

When a limerick crashes into a parakeet

Today is the very last Thursday of the month of November.

We just booked a vacation, going to Cancun in March next spring. Well, technically it will still be winter as our travel dates, in March, precede the arrival of spring. We had a little over 18,000 Airmiles that were set to expire on Dec 31, so we used them, plus some additional funds, to get the five of us on this trip.

Who says that a meritocracy is a bad way to go? So long as the ministers involved are magnanimous, wise and benevolent, I think it ought to work.

I didn't light a match today.

I wonder how many men get manicure/pedicures. There is a shop very close to my work that does this and I've seen only one time a man in the chair being 'cared for'. Maybe I would go.

I haven't given any thought to AXY3 since I first posted about it. This is often how ideas flow through me - fleetingly.