We need a couple of more comparatives in the string when it comes to health status. For instance, having a cold is clearly “bad,” having a fatal incurable disease is obviously “worst.” But there are at least two steps, and maybe three, in between those. Having the flu is pretty much the “worse” compared to the cold’s “bad,” but there are diseases that are curable, but still worse than the flu. Some because they’re longer-lasting, or even more debilitating while you have them, but even worse than that are ones that do long-lasting damage to the body that either can’t be repaired, or takes years to repair. We need a comparative for each, I think. I nominate “worser” and “worserer.”
So, I’m very, very glad I don’t have something worser or worserer. But, I’d rather have a cold than this flu. Actually I’d rather have neither, but that’s a whole different set of comparatives – “good-better-best,” and I think I’ve raved enough. I’ll save that one for when I haven’t got a fever. 
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Starlings are the biker gangs of the bird world.
They swoop down in a pack, take over the yard, fight with each other and everybody else, help themselves to whatever they want, then take off in an uproar, leaving all the other birds to survey the damage and shake their heads, wondering, “what the heck was *that* all about?”
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A few months ago, I got a *great* deal on a used computer. Or, maybe not.
I’m back. My hard drive isn’t. It was left behind – without a shred of remorse or pity – at the repair shop. Traded in on a nice, new, shiny hard drive. One that actually works for a living.
Still working on re-installing my programs, but on the off chance somebody actually reads this blog and is wondering whether Bullshit‘s jack-booted Patriot Police finally dragged me off in their shiny black helicopters… well, no. Apparently my nattering nabobishness isn’t dangerous enough to waste the gas on.
The moral of the story: Back up your data. Often. *Especially* if you got a “great deal.”
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