I feel like shit. I may have about ten minutes, here, before I have to go
back to bed. Can't sleep, but don't have the energy to do anything else,
either -- not even read. (And that just kills me.) So I've been flashing
back to little home remedies from growing up in the 1950s...

I think sometimes Mom would give me small amounts of what I remember as a
weak solution of sugar in water. Ever heard of that?

Burnt Toast: I distinctly remember Mom burning a slice of toast and
scraping the ashes into a glass of water. I guess this was to settle a
stomach (the charcoal or whateveer) -- probably more from acid upset than
from feeling urpy.

Liquid Jell-O. I guess that was a variant on sugar water; it's not like
there was sugar-free Jell-0 in 1953.


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