Heh

Being laid up, I'm watching more TV than normal. Current binge - NYPD Blue.  And I notice that everybody is carrying snubbies.

Owwie

So somewhere around 2 am I realized that I'm still a data geek.   And that the plots I was making aren't quite right because some of them are focused on ALL recalls and some are focused on food alone.  Plus they've  only been uploading stuff since about 2006 and even then the data isn't consistant.  So, fa.  And face palm.  I'm horrified that I'm still a geek.  And right now I'm trying to NOT persue a way of pulling just the food info from the total number of recalls.

But I can at least tell you that the Ritz recall is because they were given a heads up that a whey product they use MIGHT be contaminated.  And the Taco Bell cheese dip thing is because it MIGHT seperate and that MIGHT create an environment that MIGHT allow bad things to grow.

I don't eat any of that stuff to begin with.  But if I did I wouldn't panic. And would probably just continue to eat it.

In the meantime, the chemo port went in yesterday.  It's not done under general anesthesia but I can tell you that they pretty much make you stoned and fine with it all. Then you come home and sleep the rest of the day. Then the pain catches up.  Fortunately, there's Tylonal.  And beer.  Did I mention that the antibiotic they gave me for the infection I got after the original surgery led to a c. diff.  infection, which led to an antibiotic that I had a bad reaction to?  And that I couldn't drink with? Yeah, it's been fun.

Two places where they shoved the port in and a tube in are very bruised and sore. My body is not happy with this. Not happy at all.

Oh, That's Rather Funny

It's been a very busy day and I have tons of stuff to do but, oh, well.

You know how people are just berserk/whack-job-crazy.   TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP FOAMS-AT-MOUTH TRUMP TRUMP MAKES-SELF-LOOK-REALLY-STUPID crazy.  It's annoying but it's probably a good thing because it's just wearing people out and making the ignorance of the rabid anti-Trumpers really, really public.  Good recent example:  Ocasio-Cortez in New York blathers that unemployment numbers are better because everybody is working more than one job to survive and Liz Warren thinks that it sounds so good that she repeats it amongst her own blather shortly after.  Well, that's not how unemployment numbers are derived, but let that go.  A quick visit to the web site of the Bureau of Labor Statistics web page where they provide government data and lo and behold you find that only 4.9% of the labor force is working more than one job.  Which means that 95.1% of the work force is NOT working more than one job.

Today, people were freaking out over some junk food recalls, including Kraft's Taco Bell cheese dip.  And, in all caps, someone over at a facebook site was TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP LACK OF REGULATIONS WE ALL GONNA DIE!  So I got curious.  The FDA website  has recall info, and I started poking around.  They combine info for human and animal food as well as medicines in their lists and my spot checks for before 2006 didn't find any archived data.  Nor did I find data for 2009 or 2011.  Also, we are more than half way through the year, with only 49 recalls, so I simply used 100 for that.   I'm going to try to remember to go back and revise the figure when the 2018 numbers come out.  But I find a rather funny pattern in the recall numbers vs the year.  I haven't figured out how to lay administration info over this but you probably see what I mean.

Now I have to figure out how to normalize by number of inspections performed. Trouble is, some of the archived data starts at 10/1/2008, the inspection summaries start FY 2006, and I haven't even looked at the USDA site yet.  Maybe I'll just back out of the rabbit hole.  Or stick in the plot of the number of FDA food violation summaries...

A Recommendation ...

... for Peter Strzok.

DC is chock full of liars.  If you are going to compete with them you need to get much better at it.  In particular, you need to stop smirking while you lie. 

So. I Get A ...

...chemo port.

I'm just hoping no one mistakes it for an alien invasion.

Well, Personally, I Think Trump Should...

...cancel his trip and recall our ambassador to the UK, and do it with a simple message of 3 words: "Sprechen Sie Deutch?"

That Moment You Want To Say "No"...

...but know you can't.

Surgeon: "I'd like to put a needle in to pull out some fluid and see what it looks like."

Me: Silent for several beats.

She says it looks normal but sent it out for culturing.

And Then...

...I got an infection. I was busy trying to live life as usual, visiting family, playing with granddaughter, etc., and just wished the itching would stop. Came home. Started feeling Not Good. Then More Not Good. Then Bad. And the itching and pain was getting worse, not better. And there was inflamation. So one trip to urgent care, one shot of antibiotics in the arse, one bottle of prescription antibiotics, and orders to call surgeon in the morning later, I'm beginning to feel better. Frustrated as hell because I want to be on the river, but better.