I am hitting the Alka Seltzer Orange Zest (or Zesty Orange) for colds. Also using the nasal inhalers by Vicks – the kind that stick in your nostril and look like a tiny walrus tusk. Indelicate topic, I know but especially fitting if you happen to be using TWO inhalers at the same time. Such usage is not listed in the directions, but one gets desperate, dontcha know?

Der Bingle is back from San Diego and he brought me a shirt from the Cafe Coyote. I should lay it out and take a picture but the cold  – achy muscles, pressing sinuses, ear pressure. One of the men in his party order a Marguerite Grande and Der Bingle reported it was the size of a dinner plate: “It looked like a birdbath – something in which you could go face down and drown.”

It was also blue. I don’t know if it had a special name – My Blue Heaven? –  or not. Fortunately, this fellow was not the designated driver.

Oh . . . I sneezed on my computer screen. And again. So tempted to make a virus pun but am not going to tempt fate. Off to grab kleenex.