Nortel Bankruptcy

Nortel filing for bankruptcy is big news here. It was once Canada's most valuable company during the tech boom of 2000. Everyone has owned shares in this company at one time or another, shocking stuff, see the story below, the comments are rolling in.

I'm hibernating today, it's frostbite weather for the next few days. The element in my oven burned out the other day. A bright flame shot out when M tried to open it. I quickly turned it off and shut the door, remembering a friend's adventure last year. Then M went and got a new element and replaced it. I also made a mental note to stop cooking with long sweater sleeves. It just takes an instant to unknowingly set fire to yourself. The other bad habit is cooking and not being close by. I mean what if I was having a shower at the time the element burned out?

M told me he's been taking low dose (500mg) glucosamine chondroitin pills as he thinks they help his knee joints. Then my friend says she's also taking them, just because she thinks it will prevent the onset of joint pain. I take omega-3 pills and vitamin D because of things I read. The joys of middle age!

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Singulair

Well, L has been taking singulair for about a year to help control her asthma, and now it seems they are doing a suicide probe on the drug, but don't recommend you stop taking it without first consulting your doctor. It has other side effects like cough, headache, flu. So I told her to be watchful of symptoms and keep taking it until we next see the doctor (whose office has been so busy lately, K has to go in next week for a possible ear infection).

I had emailed a friend to see if she wanted to meet for coffee Saturday morning, then I got an email from her to say she is still on her trip to China. They've gotten a bit sick over there, vomitting and diarrhea but she managed to see the Great Wall. She says Beijing is beautiful but Shanghai has a more obvious disparity, big buildings right beside slums, also that the shopping is great.

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