Starting the day with my nose

6am
I think my nose looks as it usually does in the mirror, but inside, it is one tingling, stuffed blob pushing its way farther and farther out of my face. Or so it seems. And boy, it seems a lot. I have dosed it with Alka-Seltzer cold medicine; that is I drank the stuff, I didn’t throw it on my nose or inhale it. I’m thinking about doing that now.

7:35 am I think my nose is out of joint now because when I went to weather.com to see just how cold the next few days are going to be, I was not immediately greeted with the news of three snowy days. No, the big picture that popped up was of the planet Earth taking a Gamma Ray burst with the caption asking if this is how the end would come. Then other possibilities were pictured.

I just wanted to know the weather, not whether or not we are going to be here. Somehow, I feel talking about the end of the earth is taking the basic topic of weather too far.

9:46 am: To quote a Muppet song – Sweetums, lay your ugly head down upon your wretched bed. I did, on my side with the throbbiest side of my nose downward, and it feels much better!! Although, the change in position to upright is altering that. I may just have to keep my head down all day.

9:58 am Well, I decided to check the news and saw this:
marine:52
So Marines killed and Air Force guys over South Korea. Quentin is a Marine and Der Bingle spent plenty of time in the BUF’s (Big Ugly Fellows . . . or maybe that F stood for something else.) I guess I can deal with a little nose discomfort.

10:09 am: I went to check on the temperature – 21 degrees – and weather.com is still doing it . . .
kaboom

8:18 pm: Oh, major cleaning endeavor and then I look once again at weather.com and find I am being asked, Is the End Near? It’s WEATHER, you people. I might as well be typing www.doom.com . . . and I’m actually afraid there might be such a site. Aha, I checked and that took me to a black page with Bethesda written on it and a choice of languages. I just tiptoed away.