It’s Sunday night and I’m going to diverge just a bit from my normal topics - just a bit. I spend a significant amount of time doing research and work on the computer and on the internet. I’m not getting any younger and I’m learning that I have to spend extra attention to keeping myself healthy.

This means that I’m running several times a week. I’m taking vitamins. I’m trying to cut back on Coke Zero and more. I learned the hard way last year that spending too much time sitting, drinking cafeine (Coke Zero) and popping claritin to keep my allergies in check it a very very bad combination. I’ll spare you the details, just trust me and don’t mix the three to excess.

Now Claritin was a wonder drug for me. It allowed me to calm my sinuses down for a couple years and the break from constant allergy and sinus attacks has allowed me to live and breathe easier. That said, I can’t take claritin like vitamins and so I’m getting even more proactive. I’ve put in the hypo alergenic filters in the heater/aircondition. I’ve got a Dyson vacuum ~ the animal version for picking up dog hair as my business partner is part dauchsund part golden retriever and hair happens with dogs. (Not to mention that with 2 adults and 3 kids in the house, there’s a lot of dust.)

I’m not Howard Hughes by a long shot, but adding one of those ionic air filters is a good extra touch. My grand parents picked one of these up a couple years ago from a TV add. They raived and raived about it, but honestly I did the stupid grandson thing and ignored their well intentioned advice (I don’t do that much actually, but on occassion I revert back to some early period in my life when I didn’t consider the wisdom of my elders.) My parents picked up a air filter/fan shaped like the ionic filter my grandparents had, but it cost about $50.

Thing of it is it didn’t do much and I started to learn that the ionic breeze was worth the money. (Think my grandparents paid about $300 back then.) Fortunately, for me they have come down in price and now I’ve got one more edge arming me to stay healthy and keep productive. Working as a consultant and freelance writer means that if I’m sick, there’s no benefits to cover me and no sick days. I just don’t make any forward progress, so staying healthy is all that much more important.

You might say that I even learned a little from the wisdom of my elders and got the pro version, Ionic Pro.

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