Recovering nicely from teh sick. Coughing significantly reduced. Wheezing almost gone. Still have that nasty annoying tickle in my throat when I actually breathe over half my lung capacity. But fatigue is largely gone, too. Well, I'm fatigued, but that's because it's been a crazy-busy weekend so far.

Birfday party for nhudris_embrace on Friday. Spaghetti Factory ( Read more... )

I've decided to try a half-day at the office today, and an hour or two in I've not yet died. I'm a bit tired but surviving.

In only marginally-related news, I've decided that I'll no longer refer to computer integer byte orders as little-endian and big-endian, but rather as Lilliputian and Blefuscudian whenever the opportunity allows and the ( Read more... )

I was chatting with my dental hygienist at my dentist appointment this morning. We always have great conversations. This morning the topic somehow shifted to careers and beginnings, and I told her a story I once heard. It's almost certainly apocryphal, but it goes something like this.

There once was a young man with a violin. This young man ( Read more... )

Mild bronchitis. I told him I *really* wanted to be better by this weekend if possible, so he gave me a steroid shot, some medicine for the bronchitis (hoping it's bacterial at this point), and some codeine cough suppressant. Whee!!

I think I've just spent the last 45 minutes or so railing in my head against my mother for a lifetime of complaints that I haven't had the strength to tell her to her face. And I'm actually happy about this, because now in my mind I somehow know that I *can* now tell her to her face if -- no, *when* -- it comes up again ( Read more... )