Poking Badgers With Spoons

I have an e-mail I'm afraid to open, but I don't think I should delete either.

It's sitting in my GMail spam box.

The e-mail is from Princess Diana. Yes, THAT Princess Diana.

The subject line indicates that she urgently needs my help.

So, I'm afraid to open this because, well, she's dead and what if this is like some sort of e-mail version of that Ringu video tape? But on the other hand, she needs my help. I don't know if anyone else can help her or if this was targetted at me and I'm the only person capable of assisting. I'm still wrestling with what I should be doing here. This is a very tricky situation I am in here. What kind of Karma will I have if I don't help? What kind of horrors will befall me if I open this?

Hey - does anyone know if the Rock Band guitar controllers for the XBox 360 will work on the PC for Guitar Hero?

Getting ready to go see JoCo tonight, then next weekend, ConFlikt! How's that for excitement?

copperwise: I'm all sick - it's going to be worst Christmas ever.

Me: Well... I think traveling through the desert while pregnant, looking for some place to have your baby, being turned away by all the hotels and inns and being shoved off to the stable to spew your child would rank up there as the worst Christmas ever.

copperwise: *laughter*

Okay - so one of the things I forgot to say last night (because it really is not easy to make a long post on an iPhone) is that the doctor said that soaking my finger in salt water would be a very important thing to ensure there would be no serious infection. So copperwise very kindly made me a cup of hot salt water to soak my finger in. I'm not sure, exactly, when I realized I'd be putting my finger, with OPEN WOUNDS, into salt water, but I suspect it was somewhere right after I did, and then exclaimed, "OH! HOLY $#!*". After a while it stopped hurting all that much though.

Today, it is feeling much better. I have feeling in the tip of my finger again, which I consider to be a very good sign that we won't have to cut it off or anything. And, as I'm actually quite fond of that finger, well - all of them really, this gives me a happy.

I'm headed northward for the weekend, and will be leaving right after work. I'm currently hoping that I manage to make it to my destination, housecerulia, before the weather gets too nasty and the traffic gets even worse. Being from the Pacific Northwest, I am very familiar with the fact that people around these parts don't seem to know how to drive in snow and ice conditions around here. I very much have confidence in my abilities to drive in such adverse conditions, but I do worry about those around me who do not have such abilities.

But, all in all, I'm very much looking forward to this weekend with libraryraven.