01 Apr 2003

I’m ba-ack!

p. I've come back with a cold, a cough that makes bystanders edge away from me for fear that I might have "SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)":http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4161-631108,00.html and some fantastic memories. My ears also popped on the way back to earth and I now have interesting some interesting new auditory sensations -- an underwater sound complete with sonar ping in my left ear and a high pitched whistle in my right. Ah, the joys of air travel. I wouldn't normally whinge about illness on this page, but I've also got raging jet-lag so my willpower is low.

p. Normal service will hopefully resume soon, though I will fly in the face of chronology and post some more entries from Florida before I catch up with myself. It is also likely that none of this will make any sense tomorrow (or today, or whenever I am).

p. By the way, I notice that a couple of little trolls have visited the comments (see "Smarten up your quotes":http://www.rousette.org.uk/mt-static/blog/archives/000169.html and "Tiny fluffy kittens":http://www.rousette.org.uk/mt-static/blog/archives/000064.html ) while I've been away -- what's the ettiquette: delete them or leave them there for the edification of others?

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    Leave them, for the IP at least.----- Hmm, I'd quietly delete them and ban their IP. Sure some might view it as 'going down to their level' but the way I'd see it, it's your site, not a public wingeing-board! (sp?)

    Is it true you only get jet-lag if you go from West to East, by the way?

    by Ollie @ 01/04/2003 10:05 pm • Permalink •

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    It's your site. I don't think any of your regular readers would object to their removal.

    OTOH, if you leave them, it's no bad reflection on you--they are the ones who look iliterate and childish.

    by Lisa @ 02/04/2003 3:04 pm • Permalink •

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    Thanks for the input, folks. Since they don't really offend me (hey, they actually make my writing look better!), and they don't seem to bother you either, I'll leave them.

    Ollie: unfortunately not. It is supposed to be worse from West to East, but going there (ie. East to West), I still woke up at 4am local time every day. My body had an argument with my circadian clock, where the circadian clock complained that it was actually 9am so what the hell was my body still doing in bed, and my body riposted that it was still dark outside and so it couldn't possibly be day yet. My body lost.

    by bsag @ 02/04/2003 5:04 pm • Permalink •

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