Have you clicked the link today?

When you click the "FEED AN ANIMAL IN NEED" button on this page, the cost of 0.6 bowl of food and care is donated by corporate sponsors to a rescued animal in a shelter:

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Call me a sucker, but every day I get up, check my mail, and click the link before I do anything else... ;-) Oh, and check out some of the sponsors on the page after you click... they've got some interesting stuff on offer.

Medication tango and sci-fi conventions

I've been stepping down my Nortriptyline dosage over the last three days, as part of my doctor's plan to get me from six 25 mg tablets to no tablets in ten-day increments, and start me on Effexor at the 20 day mark (when I go from 4 Nortriptyline a day to 3)... and I'm already feeling the drag. I couldn't go to work today, and crawled into bed mid-afternoon to spend a few hours hiding from my own misery. Shit... if this keeps up, I might have to go back up to the full dosage, and try to figure something else out with my physician. I can't live, much less work, like this.

On the positive side, our local sci-fi convention will be happening this weekend. I hope to be able to carve several hours free this Saturday afternoon and evening to go see the costume competition and wander the various hospitality suites visiting friends I only see once a year. Hopefully I'll be in a condition to enjoy it.