Out of Service
I took the last two days off from work for what my PTO request will describe as "cold/flu/plague." I hope my boss finds that as amusing as I do.
I've done little more than sleep yesterday and today, and when I finish writing this, I'll probably do some more of that.
I lost two pounds this week and probably 99% of it was snot, but I'm not complaining. Well, maybe I'll complain a little because I missed Free Bagel Breakfast day at work yesterday and the Ask.com Christmas party tonight. Plus there were supposed to be camera crews at work today, presumably taping a story on the coolness of Ask.com and our new Ask City, and now I don't get to be on the news in one of those wide shots where they pan over a cube farm and talk about all of our hard work or something like that.
No bagels, no Christmas party, no TV time. Wah.
Leon is in a terrific mood, though. He has finished another fine semester at UC Berkeley, and he's kicking the cold/flu/plague bug that he so kindly gave to me.
The first of his Christmas/Hanukkah presents arrived today, and I went ahead and gave it to him, because it can't really sit in its USPS box for the next week and a half (although, isn't tomorrow the first night of Hanukkah? I guess I could've waited). Anyway, it's a venus fly trap. Leon was mesmerized by the one that our neighbors had sitting on the balcony railing outside their apartment, so I thought he might like one for himself. And did he? Currently, all signs point to yes.
But now, my Tussin and Snapple cocktail is making it incredibly difficult to form coherent sentences, so I will stop. I'll be spreading cold/flu/plague at the Ask.com offices tomorrow so maybe I'll make it on the news after all.
I've done little more than sleep yesterday and today, and when I finish writing this, I'll probably do some more of that.
I lost two pounds this week and probably 99% of it was snot, but I'm not complaining. Well, maybe I'll complain a little because I missed Free Bagel Breakfast day at work yesterday and the Ask.com Christmas party tonight. Plus there were supposed to be camera crews at work today, presumably taping a story on the coolness of Ask.com and our new Ask City, and now I don't get to be on the news in one of those wide shots where they pan over a cube farm and talk about all of our hard work or something like that.
No bagels, no Christmas party, no TV time. Wah.
Leon is in a terrific mood, though. He has finished another fine semester at UC Berkeley, and he's kicking the cold/flu/plague bug that he so kindly gave to me.
The first of his Christmas/Hanukkah presents arrived today, and I went ahead and gave it to him, because it can't really sit in its USPS box for the next week and a half (although, isn't tomorrow the first night of Hanukkah? I guess I could've waited). Anyway, it's a venus fly trap. Leon was mesmerized by the one that our neighbors had sitting on the balcony railing outside their apartment, so I thought he might like one for himself. And did he? Currently, all signs point to yes.
But now, my Tussin and Snapple cocktail is making it incredibly difficult to form coherent sentences, so I will stop. I'll be spreading cold/flu/plague at the Ask.com offices tomorrow so maybe I'll make it on the news after all.