From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 11/29/2025 6:14 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > "Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m15xas8mk9.fsf@void.com...   
   >   
   >> Among the long German words I had to learn was spring fever's   
   >> equivalent, Fruhjahrsmudigkeit.   
   >   
   > "Early year's state-of-tiredness"   
   >   
   > You can simply want winter to end.  It can "drag-on".   
   > But aagghhhh the "lurghi season".   
   > Especially in shared houses with people going to Universities, different   
   > jobs, young teachers, etc. - all exposed to different abundant sources   
   > of the latest virus doing the rounds...   
   > Yup, the February "I just want to give up" feeling as you fill   
   > the waste-paper-bin by the bed with green goo saturated strong "kitchen   
   > roll" papers as you lie there groaning from the umpteenth virus in   
   > succession.   
   > (a "tissue" from a fanfold box would be like a paper target benefitting   
   > from a close-up shotgun blast)   
   >   
   > ----------------------------------   
   > Yep, 2 layer paper towels. I try not to use the same pocketed one to   
   > blow my nose and wipe the oil dipstick.   
   >   
   > They claim the newer cold nostrums don't also make you a mindless zombie.   
   >   
      
      I find that smoking a little mullein helps with the chest congestion   
   and runny nose . I was making tea with it , but smoking it acts faster   
   and pinpoints the areas that benefit the most .   
   --   
   Snag   
      I appreciated foreign cultures more   
   when they stayed foreign ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)