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Strange hangover cures

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On Monday, as I came back from a doctors appointment we ran into our new and apparently temporary mailman. It turns out he’s an old acquaintance. He’s the ex-boyfriend of one of the guys that I work with in the ER.


We’ve had the two over to our house several times, but since I’ve been stuck at home sick I hadn’t seen either of them for quite a while. Talking to M about the get togethers we’d had in the past got me thinking about his ex’s strange drinking habits.

You see, B, as I’ll call him, used to enjoy drinking a concoction that was half beer and half Clamato juice! I can’t remember if I ever dared to even have a sip. Doesn’t that just sound awful!

Other than getting some extra vitamins from the Clamato juice the only benefit that I can think of to drink such a thing would be that it would make a great hang over preventer, or if you drank it the morning after a night of partying it could probably be considered one of those wild hangover cures because I’m sure all the salt in the Clamato juice must help prevent dehydration while drinking, and it’s the dehydration the morning after that usually makes you feel so awful.

I don’t tend to drink all that much these days, but if I ever do over do it, perhaps I’ll try B’s mix the day after and see if it helps.

What crazy hangover cures have you come across or tried?





Late spring bulbs blooming early

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Yellow Daffodil

My garden is full of spring blooms! Since I started the garden in 2001, I think I’ve planted more than 3000 spring blooming bulbs.

I choose some that bloomed early – as in late March Crocus’, and others are early iris’ and tulips. Some like the Daffodil above, and other tulips are said to be late bloomers and often don’t bloom for me until Mid to Late May, but many of the late blooming bulbs that I planted already have buds or are already blooming.

Everything is early this year! I’m sure that’s because we had such a mild winter here in Toronto.

It’s starting to get quite warm here now too. The spring blooms won’t last much longer if it continues to be so warm so I’d better get out into that garden and enjoy the flowers.

My alarm clock is dying

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For the last few months my alarm clock has been acting up. It’s really old. I think I’ve had it since I was perhaps 14 years old. I’m amazed that it’s lasted this long actually.

Unfortunately it’s on it’s last legs. The sound/ volume knob must be full of dust inside as sometimes when I turn it all I get is this weird static sound instead of the music that the radio alarm clock is set to. So consequently, when I set my alarm it sometimes blasts music to wake me up – as it should, and other times it’s just this light static that does nothing to wake me.

Unbelievably I’ve had a hard time finding a new alarm clock that I like. I can usually set up any type of electronic equipment without a problem, but for some reason this new radio alarm clock that I got defied me. I think it was a Timex – you could set the alarm in two different time zone modes, it automatically knew when Day light savings time took effect in this part of the world, it was supposed to have an FM/AM radio, and it had a one of those built in sound machines that played 6 different types of sounds of nature.

The demo one worked in the store, but the one we purchased did nothing but alarm with a bzzzzzzzzzzzzz every morning at 6:55 am. I couldn’t change the alarm time, and I couldn’t change it to radio or natural sound mode. So back it went.

Now I’m looking for yet another alarm clock. I just want something simple with big numbers that I can see from a distance, a radio alarm and easy buttons so when I’m half asleep and decide I don’t want to get up I can turn it off easily without having to get out the instruction manual.

Why am I having so much trouble finding a simple alarm clock?

This site just got page rank!

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Amazing! I started this site at the end of February, and Google started doing it’s dance sometime around the end of April.

I haven’t been working on this site anywhere near as much as I work on all the rest, but since a few of the others went up in page rank I visited this site to see if it at least bumped up to a PR1 from a zero and guess what? It’s a PR3!

I’m sure it helped that this blog is in on the same domain or uh is a sub-domain of my oldest domain. The site that is on the domain triciaswaterdragon.com was started in 1995 on a non profit domain called icomm.ca and when they shut down in 2003 or 2004 I started this domain. So the sites been around for a long time, and the domain – well not so long but longer than any of my others. I guess that’s why this sub-domain picked up PR so quickly.

It couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that as soon as I start a site I list it in all the directories could it? 😉 Nah …

Computer problem update!

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Our computer part was delivered within about four days! Yeah!


We installed the power supply and uhm … our A drive didn’t want to work- we’d get an error message on start up and got that message to go into the bios and fix the problem or push F2? to continue.

After contacting the power supply seller about the problem and discovering that he had no idea how to fix it we simply disabled to A drive. We never use the 3.5 discs anymore anyway.

So now I have my desktop computer back, and as a result my husband has more time on the laptop.

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