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... )

So I was coughing through dinner and chatter with friends on Friday. That wasn't surprising: I'd had a cold a few weeks prior, and I was still hacking a bit from it. Saturday, though, it got worse. Add fatigue on Saturday. Add a bit of a wheeze on Sunday. Add a mid-grade fever (100.8) Sunday night, and ramp up the dry cough to every few minutes. ( Read more... )