Saturday Rock Blogging

I like the part about the furniture...

great song.

My daughter has horrible hay fever. My sympathy.

Still, there is no housing bubble, no housing market crash and no spillover, although we salute the Fed who does note a continuing housing correction...(Imagine that, when there was no detectable deviation worth describing before...)
UTube is getting to be a weighty source of non-approved and un-official and somewhat un-edited public opinion. This cannot last it seems to me.
Time for a week off maybe where the spring has already sprung? Don't be a heroine on our count: buzz off and get well.

Hay fever eh Tanta? It doesn't get much better than the Mid-Atlantic for allergies does it? Mold, grass, trees, spring flowers... anything I forgot?

My daughter has very severe allergies... pills, eye drops, shots - you name it.

And to her horror she discovered that as bad as it is in the Midwest its WAY worse on the East Coast... but she only learned THAT after getting accepted to a school out east & enrolling. The girl needs to move to a desert mountain top... I just KNEW she should have gone to Northern Arizona.

Tanta, I can sympathize. I'm allergic to damn near everything, but luckily only one that could (and nearly has) killed me. They're kind of like my asthma -- generally NBD, but always there lurking, waiting for an opportunity to cause problems.

This one's for Crispy&Cole (aka Bakersfield Bubble). Pretty obscure, but timely.

Sung to the tune "Come on Darkness" by Camper Von Beethoven:

It came on slow
The prices rose, then fell
And the flippers flopped
As the payments rose

The bubble bust
Drove me back to the street
While the market cooled
Goodbye dreams

So goodbye house
Sent my keys to the bank
Cause the payments got, just a little bit too high

Come on bailout
Send some money down to me
I've been drowing in debt for so long now
I need someone to blame.
Come on Congress
Won't you take me in?
I have spent all I can spend, won't you give me more?

Cole have you got a job?
Or Crisp, can you spare a dime?
Seems like we're all, a little bit more than f---ed

And baby if you're renting now, out in Bakersfield
There's 10,000 sqft available, across from CSUB

I feel ripped off, your buisness has gone away
So come on bailout, we need you today
Come on Congress, won't you take us in
We have spent all we can spend, won't you give us more?

Come on bailout
Come on bailout

So much pollen in the air around here that my cats are sneezing. My sympathies.

Thanks for the kind thoughts, all. I don't usually suffer for more than a week or so this time of year. I usually battle it through, uncomfortable but awake, but this week I just decided that since I don't have to drive to work or eat anything that requires a sharp knife or remember my address in case I get lost, there's no reason to lay off the Benadryl. It's a great drug, especially if you stay within five feet of a sofa at all times. What was I saying?

Oh, yes. Max, you have kept the faith of the Saturday Rock Blogging and have reduced me to tears. OK, well, I was a bit runny-eyed before I started, but still.

Next to Mr. & Mrs "too much home buyre" there is "banket too little loan loss reserve":

Mortgage Insider : The Orange County Register

Tanta,

I suffer a lot this week as well. I am alergic to the bloom of a tree called Pekan - it is a type of wallnut

I usually battle it through, uncomfortable but awake, but this week I just decided that since I don't have to drive to work or eat anything that requires a sharp knife or remember my address in case I get lost, there's no reason to lay off the Benadryl. It's a great drug, especially if you stay within five feet of a sofa at all times. What was I saying?

I actually have a type of 'cold induced asthma'... cold as in virus not temperature. My doc treats it like regular asthma (since we never know when its going to flair up and when it does its ugly)... But because it is a type of immune response hyper-sensitivity lik allergies I start taking antihistamines the minute I feel the sniffles coming on. Claritan and the expensive prescription 'non-drowsy' ones don't work for me... so benadryl has become one of my drugs of choice.

One thing about Benadryl - the longer you are on it (days & weeks)... the less of a 'narcotic' effect it has. Still makes you want to sleep some but not like the first few days.

Secondly - take the minimum if you can. The recommended dosage is 1-2 25mg capsules/pills every 4-6 hrs. If one does the trick - take only one.

For most folks with nasty allergies though they usually need to take two... I find the drowsiness is less severe if you take one every 2-3 hours rather than 2 every 4-6... Spread the dosage out so there is less of a 'spike'.

The side effects aren't all negative... benadryl dreams are unbelievable - at least for me. Crazy dreams and in full technocolor. I wish I had the energy to write some of them down or paint them. Salvidor Dali would be jealous.

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