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Skriven 2014-02-18 23:08:41 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 9908 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: up and down 203
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 13 Feb 14  20:44:00 <=-

 ML>> get yo-yoing from one extreme climate to the other. We're
 ML>> getting old, say my fingers and toes.
 NB>> Your yo-yoing might have something to do with it, at least for the
 NB>> acclimation part of things...
 ML> I'm just getting too easily confused these days.
 ML> Body, mind, whatever.

Likewise... there are days...  ;)

 NB>> it could also be meds related, Richard's finding the
 NB>> same thing this winter, with the fingers and toes just not
 NB>> getting warm... he blames it on the meds that keep his heart rate
 NB>> steadily low, and blood pressure unnaturally low... 
 ML> My valsartan and metoprolol regimen keeps my blood pressure
 ML> steadily low and heart rate unnaturally low; but it also
 ML> prevents most of the arrhythmias that have plagued me over
 ML> the years. But I've been on them for years.

Hmmm... maybe it IS a mix of meds and aging... he just had the latter
already without really noticing, you had the former likewise... ;)

 NB>> She seems to be equating swing shift with the second shift
 ML> I don't know which usage gave birth to the other, but
 ML> many make that equation, as do I unless there's evidence
 ML> that something else was meant.

I find that a bit odd... I'd always heard of swing shift as the being
scheduled for different shifts around the clock... maybe it's a regional
thing... never really paid attention to shifts until we moved here, as
Daddy was always either days as a researcher or days (sometimes long
ones) as a professor... 

 ML>> Also, there's a significant workforce of single people and
 ML>> empty-nesters who could be apportioned between second and
 ML>> third shift.
 NB>> Richard always liked third shift best... whether at Kodak or at
 NB>> Wegmans... and our son is a night owl, too... :)  If Richard was able 
 NB>> to get work again, he'd still not mind working that shift... I'll
 NB>> admit I'd just as soon he was working regular days now, though...  :)
 ML> For most of my life night has been more comfortable both
 ML> physically and psychologically. That's part of why I went
 ML> into music, a nighttime profession, and not something like
 ML> medicine, mostly a daytime profession. 

Except for obstetrics, which is 24-hour...  ;)  Pediatrics can be,
too... :)

 ML> Also, being a vampire was not a viable option. Speaking of
 ML> which, why the current fascination in popular culture with
 ML> vampires and zombies and such?

Goes in cycles...?  ;)

 ML> Given my current routine (lack of), I do go back and forth
 ML> among several of the systems, not finding any of them
 ML> currently favorable. 

I used to be, if anything, a little biased towards night... Now, I'm
just tired, no matter which... ;)  Years of crisis counseling got me to
where I can function at a moment's notice, if need be, no matter what
time of day or night... but the fallout I think has been to make me
neither owl nor lark... and to need rest no matter when... (G)

ttyl         neb

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