COLD RECOVERY

Bouncing back from a cold that laid me relatively low yesterday, I have some observations in no particular order:

- Damn, but Half Life 2 is some bleak-ass shit. Not that I'm complaining, mind you, it's just that if I had to actually live there, you can bet I'd probably be running for the Aperture Science building. That this place counts as "a relatively safe spot in that world" in my mind probably tells you something.

- I realize this would be a completely hideous invention in practice (either from a using or witnessing standpoint), but every once in a while I kind of want a small, hand-held vacuum with a flexible straw that I can just shove up my nose and remove all the snot with, as opposed to having to blow it out into tissues.

- I guess I just had the two observations, then