The super monster swelling spot from hell

When I woke up yesterday, I had a small hard sore spot just below my lip, like a soon-to-surface zit. By evening, that corner of my lip was noticeably swollen. By bedtime, it throbbed, and looked like someone had hit me in the mouth.

At 6:30 this morning the pain woke me up. The swelling was huge; I checked with Rob, who agreed that I wasn't imagining or exaggerating. It was at least twice the size my lip is supposed to be, and throbbed relentlessly.

I couldn't lie still, so I got up and went on IRC, and took a couple of Nurofen Plus (ibuprofen and codeine). That was difficult, because I couldn't get a glass of water to my mouth properly and they're not coated in anything slippy.

By about ten, the swelling had gone down noticeably and there was a small red going to be a spot patch under my lip. Also, the pain had gone.

By teatime, the whole thing had blown over, and I'm now pretty convinced it's just a really big, evil spot. But I'm tired and wired from lack of sleep.

Housework and databases

First and most important, Rob has figured out what to do about the multiple authors problem. We need a table for books, a table for people, and a table for book-to-author relationships. Problem solved.

So then we rearranged the bedroom a little so that there aren't clothes all over the floor and the ironing board and the bed, and so that there's a little less junk lying around everywhere. The cat has started knocking things off the bedside tables.

Now Rob can see his clothes in the morning when he goes to look for them; they are no longer in a dark and shadowy corner where he has to stand between the light source and the basket of underwear. Plus, of course, we're going to get real chests of drawers soon, which will help a lot.

Then we did more washing up (us and Janice did a lot yesterday, but not all of it) and I made flapjacks. Then we did more data entry; I read the info from the books, and Rob keyed it in. My hands couldn't take any more.

Interestingly, our data entry forms are easier to use with Lynx than with Mozilla. We stopped entering data at 500 books, and decided to paint more wood so that we can put up more shelves.

We could only find one paintbrush, so I painted while Rob did more housework.