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[scrdest]

Argh, I don't know what the hell is happening to me. It's getting worse.
I'm pretty sure I mentioned yesterday that my eyes had been 'weeping' a lot- I doubt that's the correct term, since what I actually meant is that they were producing a lot of sleep (y'know, that gunk stuff you usually wake up with in your eyes), enough to be visible. I've been sick for a few days with mild cold/flu symptoms, mostly a sore throat but a brief fever too, and a runny/blocked nose.

I went up to visit my mother yesterday, not paying my eyes' weirdness much attention since they occasionally do weird stuff, but it kept up. For most of the day my eyelashes were all gunked down, and my eyes red and irritated as though I was getting a sty.
I figured once I got home, out of the wind and whatever, they'd get over it. But it just seems to be getting worse...
I lay down in bed and slept for a while, but kept waking up due to the amount of stuff coating my eyes, sticking them shut and leaving hard ridges all over my eyelids. I'm pretty sure it's not too unusual for people to occasionally wake up with their eyelids gummed together with sleep, but I have certainly never had it on this level.

I just got up out of bed, only able to open my right eye partially, got a damp sponge and went into the bathroom to try and clean them.
I was greeted with a horrifying sight in the mirror: both my eyes caked with yellow gunk, the right one squinting angrily out from a tiny gap between the eyelids. Anyway, I did my best to clean them up with the sponge and got most of the stuff off, but I'm pretty sure I can feel more accumulating as I type this.
If this keeps up I think I'll have to go see a doctor tomorrow.
Has anyone ever experienced anything similar?

Bacterial conjunctivitis. Presumably, some bacteria decided to take advantage of your flu/cold and decided to move in to your eyes. The yellow stuff is dead bacteria and dead immune cells, so you are basically crying corpses. And that's pretty metal.

[Yoink]

Well, I'm not sure what to think of that, but the wording got a smile out of me anyway. \m/ Thanks!
I guess I'll probably have to see a doctor tomorrow... unfortunately I might need to look after my sister's dog as well.
Araghhghhlagh. Times like these I miss living with my mother and her elite-level motherly healing skills. Trade-offs, I suppose.

[Sirus]

Spoiler: THIS IS WHY I HATE SNOW DRIVING (click to show/hide)

[Pnx]

I hope they came out of that ok...

[Sirus]

Me too. That's just...fuck, I don't even want to imagine.

[Pnx]

Actually, looking at it, it seems they had the quick thinking to open the door and jump out... I didn't notice that before.

[Sirus]

One person got out from the tow truck. Unless the driver of the 18-wheeler got picked up by a different vehicle earlier, at least one person didn't get out.

[NobodyPro]

I don't know what it is about that gif but it looks fake.

[MaximumZero]

Reuters link.

It was a rescue that turned out to be a narrow escape for one Norwegian driver. This tow truck was trying to pull another truck that became stuck on this mountain road when suddenly the truck overturned. The quick thinking tow truck driver managed to jump out of the cab before his vehicle was pulled down the cliff. Amazingly police say the driver of the other vehicle survived his plunge down the mountain and is in stable condition.

[Sirus]

Reuters link.

It was a rescue that turned out to be a narrow escape for one Norwegian driver. This tow truck was trying to pull another truck that became stuck on this mountain road when suddenly the truck overturned. The quick thinking tow truck driver managed to jump out of the cab before his vehicle was pulled down the cliff. Amazingly police say the driver of the other vehicle survived his plunge down the mountain and is in stable condition.

Thank goodness for that!

[Darvi]

For some reason instead of accessing the forums I got redirected towards the Uni website for a while. It appears that deactivating Wifi helped, though.

[Dutchling]

After a space of a day or two since noticing, I think I've managed to get the last of the chewed crisps out of my left inner ear. why do we still need our inner ear connected to our mouths

[Fniff]

I just finished the Metro Last Light Spider Lair level. It is a level in which you run through an abandoned rocket base filled to the brim with giant spiders. You have a lighter. They are somewhat afraid of the light. I am an arachnophobe.

Feel free to replace the rest of this post with several pages of horrified screaming.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

I hear there's a mod that removes 99% of the spiders, but also removes the lighter.

[Fniff]

Hey, at least I'm getting a profound sense of happiness that I am not trapped in post-apocalyptic Moscow being chased in the dark by hundreds of man-sized spiders who wish for nothing more then to suck out my juices. Though then again you could make pretty much any life better when you compare it to that.