Your condo-bound webmaster has been enjoying the high-life with the fam all week. I get afternoon nap patrol while mom goes to work out in the gym. Which means my workout time is early AM.
I decided to don the goggles and Zoomers or whatever Squeeky calls them, and give an early morning ocean swim a shot.
The water is really nice. It’s gotta be close to 80 if not above. And in the morning, wind chop is minimal, as is the crowd.
I was 12 minutes into the swim, about 200 yards offshore, and I got zapped by a jellyfish. That pretty much ended it, and I bee-lined it straight in.
It definitely stung, but I wasn’t thinking about amputation. I went into the restaurant kitchen and asked for a cup of vinegar. By then my arm was getting some big blisters. After dowsing with vinegar and a light rub with a paper towel, I immediately got in line for a post-swim coffee at Starbucks.
After heading back down to the beach and sitting on my ass drinking coffee for the rest of my short workout window, I headed back up to the room. By the time I got off the elevator, the stinging had stopped, and the blisters had stopped weeping.
As I write, you can hardly tell I was zapped this morning.
Vinegar is good stuff.