Alert the standards organizations

[cjsmith]

99.6. It's so reliable I could have a new career ahead of me, calibrating thermometers. :)

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[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

At this point if you are comfortable with the thought of going to work, go to work already!
The actual standard is 97.6 to 99.6, so you are at the high end of normal.
The Trick is, if that isn't your normal (to be taken numerous times when you feel Great!) and you feel like crap, it is your body telling you something.
My Normal is 97.8. 99.6 is indeed my body trying to tell me something.
Temperature/Fever is the traditional YMMV.
Just take care and don't overdue it. This isn't called the Boomerang Cold for nothing.
*hugs*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I've been at work since Tuesday, yeah... but with a face mask on as a courtesy to my coworkers. 99.6 is definitely not my normal.

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should try a second thermometer.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Good point (though this one does read lower than 99.6 first thing in the morning). I can also tell I'm not normal yet by how tired I am.

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

Could also be chronic lack of sleep...

[airporter.livejournal.com]

There you are! But are you feeling better?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Except for getting hit with the tired stick all the time, yeah, I'm really not feeling bad at all. I have a minor cough (more noticeable when I do things like stand up and walk around) but it's really just the tiredness now.

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

which reminds me, apropos of almost nothing:

biscuits-in-a-tube are really good for calibrating ovens. Because those things have had the *shit* tested out of them, and if they're supposed to brown in x minutes at y temperature, you can be darned certain they'll do exactly that... and if they don't, it's certainly your oven.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I never thought of that! Cool.

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

I got it from an oven repairman, years ago. I love the ones who are smart and like to talk.

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[allanh.livejournal.com]

> 99.6. It's so reliable I could have a new
> career ahead of me, calibrating thermometers. :)

Which end? (Oral or ... non-oral models?)

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'll use the cats for the other kind.

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[allanh.livejournal.com]

How do you fit a cat "up there"? Don't they claw and bite and scratch something awful?

OW!

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Nah, they don't fit inside the thermometers at all, I've found.

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[allanh.livejournal.com]

So if your pussy (cat) won't fit into the thermom--no, never mind. WAY too easy.

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[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

in soviet russia...

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

With my sinus headaches so sensitive to the weather, in my observations & measurements class last semester, wherein we performed calibrations of several instruments, I joked with the prof that we should calibrate my head as a barometer. Get your metabolism calibrated as a thermometer and we would just need someone who could be a humidity sensor and someone for an anemometer and we'd be all set. ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hmm, someone with joint trouble and someone with lots of long hair?

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

funly enough, fahrenheit used body temperature to anchor his scale :)