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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In the last couple of days both I and my brother James,   
   who also suffers from bipolar disorder though his symptoms   
   are different from mine and he is an extreme morning   
   person and I am an extreme night person, have had cold   
   symptoms. But he seems a bit better today, and I have   
   just started to come out of a chilled feeling after two hot   
   bowls of seafood chowder.   
      
   This leaves me somewhat hopeful, since in Evangeline   
   Walton’s translation of the Mabinogion I read that after   
   three years of being turned into different animals each   
   year by Math, brothers Gwydion and Gilfaethwy experienced   
   a strange chill and then transformed back to human.   
      
   Now I divine that none of the propthrough ootws (who I   
   used to call avatar types) had three years of low/working   
   years, they were all the common seven years or the more   
   rare fourteen years, and I have had to go over 28 years   
   (4X7 or 2X14), indeed approaching 29 years (the common   
   7 years plus 2 sunspot cycles). So anyway I hope that   
   my low/working years will end by Samhain, though I   
   might have to wait until Chinese New Year, which will   
   be exactly 29 years.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “Mary walks down to the water’s edge and there she hangs Her head to   
   find herself faded a shadow of what she once was” (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)