Paging Dr. House.

Just like it's not paranoia is they're really out to get you, it's not hypochondria is you're actually sick a lot. Well, since I've come to Japan (almost a whole year now if you can believe), I've gotten sick a couple of times, had a small asthma attack once, but otherwise been fairly healthy. However, my asthma means that as a general rule, I go to the doctor at least once a month. Now, my abuse of the Japanese medical system aside, this means that for the most part I catch problems early. Consider my high cholesterol, a problem which emerged while I was here, and then due to prompt treatment, is back to normal.

But back to my current problem. After a weekend being cooped up in the house, I got to the doctor's today. After drawing some blood, some initial testing may indicate that I have whooping cough.

Holy fucking shit.

Really it's more annoying than anything else. I haven't been told to quarantine myself or anything, but the wiki article seems to indicate that this is pretty damned contagious. Well, I'll take care to keep a towel or something I can cough into. In the meanwhile, I have some meds (good ol' Azithromycin) to cure me up. Lets hope that it doesn't actually take 100 days to cure, as the Japanese name would seem to indicate (it's called "100-day Cough" here).

Yippee-ki-yay Motherfucker!

Went to see Die Hard 4.0 (or Live Free or Die Hard, as it is marketed in the US and Canada). Can I say... awesome!!!! The last time I got to turn off my brain and sit back and ENJOY an action movie was xXx, and as entertaining as it was (no, it wasn't a good movie, but it was definitely entertaining) Die Hard 4 delivers more in and in spades. About 20 minutes into the film the action starts, and it basically doesn't stop until the end. Plus, John McClane's daughter is a hottie. And the evil chinese hacker chick is a hottie. OK, so the F-35 is stupid. But who cares?

Just awesome. This is one for the DVD collection.



Oh yeah, Happy Canada Day motherfuckers!