I started a 2nd round of antibiotics today. I woke up two Friday’s ago to find that my lip and nose were swollen, painful and red. The stitches had been out for 4 days at that point and can only assume that since they didn’t shave my lip before sewing it back up that I had a few ingrown hairs. No biggie. I called my doctor like I was supposed to and was on clindamycin for 7 days. The swelling went down and my lip continued to heal properly. Unfortunately, everything being "tossed over the stern" was being turned to pure liquid.

Turns out I am special. There are 3 - 5% of the population that clindamycin causes antibiotic-associated colitis. I won’t go into more details, but you can click on the link if you want to learn more about colitis. Let’s just say the ‘col’ part of colitis stands for colon. And I’m not talking about the punctuation mark nor a former U.S. Secretary of State.

Flagyl or metronidazole is what I just started taking to kill off the bacterium that are producing the toxins that have infected my colon. I’m hoping Grampy will make a poopy soon.

All this because I ran into a tree.

Listening to: Show Me - Seal

• The Beginning
• Intermission
• Prank You Very Much
• Update
• The Re-enactment
• Re-enactment Wallpaper
• The Bumper Sticker

The brower wars have been going on for years with a recent report saying Apple’s Safari is making a huge up-swing in users. I’m still using Firefox mostly due to the fact my 4-year-old iMac doesn’t have the processor power to make Safari function quickly, but it does have an outstanding RSS feed reader and will switch back to it when I finally get a new iMac.

Anyway, I wanted to share this fan film ad for Firefox entitled, "Wheee!". It’s damn funny. Thanks Walt for the link!

Listening to: Killing With Kindness - Tears For Fears

Listening to: Saving Grace - The Pretenders

UPDATE [4/21/06 2:23 MST] - Look at the tree. This is the exact tree that I ran into. Look closely. Do you see the eye, mouth and nostril in the bark? (No, I didn’t Photoshop it) Creepy, huh? That tree really did move in front of me. And all because I was hinting its apples weren’t what they ought to be.

• The Beginning
• Intermission
• Prank You Very Much
• Update
• Attack Of The Bacterium
• Re-enactment Wallpaper
• The Bumper Sticker