Another lazy day of sickness

I woke up feeling pretty darn awful. At least my fever was down.... Still got a strong cough which terrorizes my throat, though. I'm thinking with the fever down in the 99ºF range it probably isn't the flu though. I'm hoping it isn't laryngitis.... My voice was going off and on today. That's not a good sign....
The worst part is this awful Chinese medicine I have to take.... I thought the first stuff was bad! The stuff I started on today is worse!!!! It is so unbelievably bitter, and the taste lingers. Ech! But at least I have my CC Lemon.... The vitamin C tablets and medicine drops aren't too bad... The Chinese medicine is the awful stuff. Back in the states I'd just take something like Nyquil/Dayquil and be set for the day.... Vitamin C, medical drops, AND a general multi-symptom medicine seems a bit over the top to me, but I'll deal with it. I don't have to go to the hospital, so I'm happy.... ;) I guess hospitals are cheaper here or something, but I guess that was a possibility for a short amount of time... I avoided that, so I'll be fine. ;) In my standards if I'm not better in 10 days, THEN I'll go to the doctor.... Any sooner than that, unless it's obviously something major, seems to be too much for me.... Of course I'm pretty good at getting sick, so that may be why.
So anyway, my day was spent sleeping, hanging out online, and hacking. Not much else.... A lazy, restful day. Didn't go to the Saturday class (third week in a row! Ouch! Other two there just wasn't class...) because my voice was going and I still had a bit of a fever.... Have one again tonight, but it's not too bad. I'll live. I've been through it all before.... If I do lose my voice that would be annoying, but it happens.... Seems to be whenever I'm in other countries (first and only other time I lost my voice was when I went to Mexico), but it happens. Hopefully it wont kill me.... ;)
Sorry for the boring life, but sickness usually isn't all that exciting.

Here's a random observation to hold you over until something interesting happens.... I noticed that 2 of the standard 12 channels in Japan are shopping channels.... I thought that was kind of weird. We're talking BASIC channels here! And there isn't a 7, so it's really 2 of the 11...... Just something I found odd. And then I think there's only one news company, which could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on if they put a spin on stories (as the media tends to do). Like the whole American beef thing.... Have I talked about this before? If not, I'll just give a bit of a summary here....
America messed up and sent Japan ONE wrong meat part in ONE shipment after Japan finally started importing American beef again. The whole mad cow disease thing... Kind of ridiculous. They're making a big deal about it... It's been on the news for weeks. It may have been in the states for maybe a day or two.... I don't know what they said about it there, so if anyone knows, feel free to tell me. Anyway, it's a big deal here. It hasn't been every day like it was a week or two ago, but it still shows up in the news every few days... Today being one of those.
What I want to know is who's reporting Japan's mad cow cases... There was, what? Twenty confirmed cases in Japan, I believe.... And something like three in the US. No human in America has had the human equivalent of mad cow, one person in Japan has.... So what's the big deal????? Shouldn't they be more afraid of their beef? It's ridiculous.

There's my mad cow/BSE rant and my strange TV observation..... The mad cow thing has been going on for weeks, so I may have mentioned it already. I can't remember for sure.... Sorry if I have. It's still going on though... Today they started reviewing America's new beef import proposal.... To my understanding, anyway. It seems silly to get so worked up about ONE mistake.... Maybe they do need to change it a little bit, but completely altering the proposal? Yikes! Maybe it's just me..... But it doesn't seem like something to worry about.