I am miserable today, because today is the first day of the new year where my allergies are absolutely killing me.
As I type this Rant out, I can barely see out of both of my eyes, and my nose is running like a water faucet.
Having allergies is such a curse, and on a day like today, it is as bad as it can possibly be.
I think it is being brought on by the weather trend we are having here on the East Coast, where it gets cold, like winter should be, but then rebounds and we get weather for several days that is reminiscent of what we normally get in April.
Today, it is supposed to be a bit wet again, but it is going to be in the 50s, so it is not unlike early April even though we are in mid-January.
Believe me, I am not comparing our weather to what is happening out west, where California has been hit by enough rain for about five years just in the past few days.
Nor am I comparing our weather with places that are getting record snowfalls, including right here in upper New York State in Buffalo, where I wonder if they are still digging out of the snow they received late last year and earlier this month.
Compared to what is happening elsewhere, what we have gotten here is something I can certainly live with.
I heard on the local newscast yesterday that we might actually get our first substantial snow in these parts by next Thursday, amounting to a couple of inches of the white stuff.
As of yet, we have not even received a trace of snow thus far, although we have gotten lots of rain.
It has just been too warm in December and thus far in January, and January might set a record for the warmest January on record the way it is going.
But keep the snow away!
I can live with the allergies—I have done so my entire life—but I just hate the snow.
It creates havoc that isn’t really worth it.
On another note, for some reason, my computer may have fixed itself.
I don’t know or understand how it has done this, but after months and months of not booting up correctly, it has been six days in a row that it has turned on the right way, and I haven’t had to reset it at all to get it to boot up to the correct opening screen.
I cannot figure it out, although I think it has to do with the heat in the room that I have the computer in.
When it gets too warm in that room—my daughter’s old bedroom—the computer simply won’t turn on the right way.
Now that we are in winter, and we have had a very mild winter here, the coolness has actually benefitted the computer, and it boots up each morning like it is supposed to.
In fact, since January 1, I have had just one day where it has taken me several times to get it going—on January 9, when it took me four tries to get this thing where it should be (yes, I am charting these things since the first of the year).
The computer has had a couple of threes and twos, but for six straight days, it has turned on perfectly.
I don’t want to give it a “kin ahura”—Yiddish for “the whammy”—but I just hope that the computer can keep on going like this …
But I still don’t trust it entirely, and I am continuing to back it up each and every day.
I just wish I could reboot my allergies today.
I wish it was a simple as pushing a button or taking out a plug, but it doesn’t work that way.
My eyes are continuing to hurt, I just blew my nose today for what feels like the 101,807th time, and I am miserable today … and it isn’t even 7:30 a.m. yet.
I have a full day ahead of me, and while I am sure that my allergies will kind of even out over the next few hours, it is a completely helpless feeling when I am in the midst of a bad allergy day.
About the only thing I can do is to take a nap and see if that works—in particular for my eyes—but I simply don’t have the time to do that in the foreseeable next few hours.
But there is always hope, just like I had for this old computer, which hasn’t given me much of a problem for about a week now, and for pretty much the entirety of the new year.
Will I be able to say the same about my allergies after today?
I guess I can only hope so.
Tomorrow, I have my first early appointment of the new year, so I will not be submitting a Rant on Thursday.
Speak to you again on Friday, and I hope to have better news about my allergies, and continued good news about my computer.
Again, I can only hope so.
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