Making the Best of It
And that is how I fed myself through three weeks of Lyme disease.
I had a fever of 352 degrees.
You know what they say, when life gives you illness, make soup with the heat radiating from your body.
I’ve been fairly sick the last few days and, being the person I am, I started thinking about how I could turn it into something positive. This seemed like the natural conclusion to draw. I’m feeling a bit better today, thankfully, which allowed me to get the strip finished and up not too late! Must have been all that soup I made! Hooray!
You got Lyme disease or have you referred days of yore?
Anyway, sucks for you. Get better soon!
Yep, that’s pretty much what scarlet fever is like.
…So Tuesday’s was actually late, and I was thinking it was on time, Thursday…
Yes, it seems I goofed up and thought that you posted comics on Tuesdays and Thursdays…
Well anyways,good to hear your felling better!
Seriously a fever of 352 degrees?
(I’m guessing thats *F not *C, as if that’s *C then it’s over 660*F!)
Still 352 *F and you would be dead!
I think your thermometer is broken
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Wait a second!
352 *K Kelvin, of you sly little….
352*K = 173.93*F!
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Nice one!
You used Kelvin (abbrev. “K”)
Alas, the Kelvin scale explicitly doesn’t have degrees. A kelvin’s a kelvin – there’s no degree kelvin. As SMBC put it: “Science – ruining everything since 1543!” 😉
(That 352 K would still be utterly fatal is not nearly as fun as nitpick ;))
TL;DR: ’twas a joke.
Hmm, well then, I guess I am wrong!
… if so then I go back to his thermometer being broken, that or he’s greatly exaggerating…
Also I couldn’t recall what the maximum temperature a fever could get before literally cooking the brain, maybe you know.
I don’t know about frying brains, but 352 is definitely a bit too hot to boil soup at. I imagine all the liquid would boil away fairly quickly.
Well if the 352 really is in Kelvin, then that’s only 173.93*F/78.85*C.
Much better to cook with.
I’ve had a fever of 104* F. That is super high. 108 is survivable if brief. 110 would make you unconscious, I’d think. 112 you’d be in a coma. 116 you’d probably be dead. To boil broth, a thick heterogeneous solution, with some mix-ins, too, would take you above 220* F. I dunno, 330?
If only K would tell us in what units the temperature is!
I haven’t bothered actually measuring the temperature of soups/stew
before…
Call me lazy but, I usually just microwave it
(a standard soup can’s worth)for ~2 and a half minutes.
I have a cold right now. Could I have some of that soup?
I hope you get better soon!
When life gives you Lyme disease, make lymeonade?
That was bad.
I’ve never commented before, but I love your comics. They always make me happy, and you seem like a really awesome guy. I hope you feel better soon!
I stumbled onto your comics yesterday but sadly had to pause and sleep before reading the rest this morning. Love the art, the puns and even the educational aspect to all of it. This is truly amazing work!
P.S. Hope you get better!
Do you get immunity (to All the Lyme Diseases) and a free pass to stag-butting next time one of those marathons in mud comes around? That and the ability to casually cling to passing busses (and drink their sweet renewable nectar) would be almost worth the trouble, eh?
I hope you got some lube for that scaryass tick.