The head cold I've been fighting for almost two weeks caught up last night and I ended up sleeping twelve hours on decongestant, so sorry no post for yesterday. Catching up ASAP.

As awful as it is to have the little one waking up three times during the night for feedings, that's a far better way to lose sleep than being sick.

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For consideration: ugh

I coughed and I coughed and I coughed and then I hawked up a big, chunky loogie onto a tissue ( Read more... )

Every night that work pays for dinner (which it is currently doing most evenings as we gear up for the Developer Conference), I throw a different "healthy energy bar" in with everything else. I don't eat it, I add it to a pile that's growing on my desk, a pile of healthy energy bars of different brands and types. At some point, I will eat them all ( Read more... )

I was going to write more Rabbit Hole material today but I got laid low in the early afternoon by a terrible headache and it wouldn't go away and finally I just took a ball-peen hammer and split my head open and whattya know out popped a little magical bee-winged faerie-goddess and she said hi I'm the fully formed manifestation of Aggrava the ( Read more... )

L got another fever and the shits. C got sinus congestion so deep it was physically painful. I got body aches that felt like every bone in my body was broken.

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For consideration: revenge of the Fat Man in Red

Home sick today. Hopefully later, will do some long-overdue writing, but for now I'm reading. Last week, Edward Tufte came through the Bay Area with his lecture course on presentation of data and, in support of some project-related stuff that's going on, I convinced work to send me. Part of the course fee covers copies of all four of his books, and ( Read more... )

Sick, real sick, like your whole body has become that pain you sometimes get in the back of your neck, in your wrist, sometimes, the one that won't go away when it decides to show up, only this time it's every part of your body that bends, and all the parts in between as well, and everything hurts to touch, like sandpaper and glass, and it's too ( Read more... )