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[cellio]

Someday I will figure out how one properly decorates a sukkah; the only decorated ones I've seen have been done up with stuff made by the kids in the family/congregation. If I decorate, I want adult decorations. Whatever those would be. But at least the strands of small white lights (bought on December 26 one year :-) ) are pretty. And, more importantly, provide ample light to see dinner by.

So far it's a one-splinter year for the sukkah. That's pretty good for me. :-)

For bizarre reasons, yesterday I found myself needing to know how to say "purple dinosaur" in Hebrew. My dictionary was of no help on "dinosaur", so I ended up settling for "reptile". Not the same thing, but good enough in context.

I found out recently that my parents have never, in their entire lives, eaten Indian food. Wow. Chinese food was a novelty for me when I was growing up, but I thought that was just due to the local restaurant options. No, my parents just haven't explored a lot of unusual foods. So we're going to take them to an Indian restaurant in a couple weeks. (And no, I haven't asked them about sushi yet.)

I've been getting a lot of spam lately for Vicadin, whatever that is. From googling it appears to be either a painkiller or a psychadelic, but I'm not sure which. (I suppose the latter is a type of the former, for some people.) Did it just come onto the market or something?

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[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

Vicadin is a painkiller. But really, you should ask my husband about it....he's the expert! ;-)

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

oh, and no, it did not just come out recently. Unless I've got my drugs all messed up. But I don't think so.

[cellio]

How odd, then. Vicadin is now showing up in my spam subject lines as much as Viagra. Xanac (Xanax? something like that) is running a close third. I figured maybe a patent just expired or some cheap overseas source opened up or something. Shrug.

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

Xanax. It's for anxiety.
Vicodin is a pain medicine that I've taken as long as 10 years ago and I think it's much older than that. I think it had a fairly high street value for a while because people got high off it. I don't get that kind of reaction to drugs, so I don't entirely understand it.
As for Viagra, I guess I probably don't need to explain what it's all about.

It's funny, I never get spam like this. How are you so lucky?

[cellio]

You have an interesting definition of "lucky". :-)

I get a lot of spam. I don't use custom filtering beyonf what my ISP supplies (am am unwise in the ways of procmail), but my neural filters have gotten pretty good. I can delete it based on sender/subject with minimal processing by now. I'd still rather not get it at all, of course, but at least I don't waste a lot of time with it. But it can take a week or two sometimes for me to really notice new trends -- "gee, I've been seeing that word a lot; what is it?".

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

well, I was saying lucky in the sarcastic sense. ;-)

I don't use any custom filtering either, though sometimes Outlook thinks it's smarter than me and will randomly send things to the Trash... sometimes it's right, sometimes it's not. Heh.