How's your day? May 2015

Stayin' Alive !

 

Feeling much better today! Still have a cough. Must be time for another swig of codeine cough medicine

 

Spent the morning out in Lakewood CO with Mrs. Samurai amongst mutual old friends. Spending this evening with her enjoying the fire pit and the mild weather. It has rained/snowed 27 of 30 days in May, but perfect weather conditions today!

 

Kerry-

So glad to hear your making progress! I hope you're back to full power soon!

 

Thanks Chris! Men tend not to visit the doctor for much of anything, thankfully I have a wife in the medical field who knows what's wrong and will insist I go see my doctor. PTL for our wives.

 

Indeed! Glad she caught it and prevented pneumonia! Mrs. Samurai looks out for me like that too. God bless our wives!

 

No, I think Texas did that
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-braces-more-rain-after-week-flooding-n367001

Quality over Quantity. I tell them that at work, but they want both of course.

 

Just had a bout of the exact same thing in late April, early May. Knocked me out. Coughing made me sore all over. The codeine cough medicine finally helped me sleep and not wake because of all the coughing, which was always worse while lying down. A week on the meds and I was on road to recovery.

btw - I never knew how I got it either.
Get well soon!
- RT

 

Thanks Rufus!

 

Got back from my vacation today. You Californians sure do like your taxes.

 

Welcome back. My wife's family lives in NY. It's shocking what things cost there as well.

 

Did you enjoy your stay?

 

I did! I didn't enjoy your taxes, traffic, foul tasting water, tolls or the cars driving in my bike lane though. I won't be moving there any time soon. I spent Tuesday walking all over the city. I still enjoy SF proper, but spending 6 days in the east bay area was enough for me to realize how easily I'd snap if I had to live there for any length of time. Oddly, all of the graffiti not withstanding, I think I could live in Oakland.

 

Next time come further south, the South Bay has better tasting water, no toll bridges, miles of bike friendly lanes, an Anti Graffiti Program (big city problems) taxes? Yeah that the price you pay for

 

No, we don't. Our government likes our taxes.

Come to the San Francisco Bay Area, and New York won't seem shocking at all. Back in the late 1990s, I worked with a recruiter who told me "My husband and I moved out here because we thought it was less expensive than Manhattan, but it's more expensive!" They moved back to Manhattan because the cost of living was lower. The cost of living in the Bay Area has since increased substantially.

Yeah, the area does have its challenges. But foul tasting water? Maybe in the East Bay, but large portions of the Bay Area get their water from Hetch Hetchy and Crystal Springs reservoirs. That is some of the best quality tap water anywhere. The tolls are only on the bridges when going East to West. Unless you have to commute across one of them, you don't have to pay any tolls. The motorists and cyclists on the other hand... well, let's just say either one of those alone is reason enough to avoid the Bay Area.