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At this point I've been sick for nearly a week and a half. I'm down to the light sore throat and a cough phase, thanks to antibiotics, but gah. gah gah gah. diony is running about a day or two behind me. Fortunately, Julia didn't get it. Missing a week of work was pretty rough - I did some work from home to try to keep up though, and that helped a bit. I also had to give several classes while sick. Fortunately, that was after my fever had mostly broken, and before I lost my voice, so I was both sane and capable of speech.
I've become much more able to recognize that I have a high fever than I was when last I had one, it was just much more apparent this time. My brain kept offering random words or phrases which had nothing to do with anything going on, and I very quickyl figured out why.
I've been playing Persona 3 lately. Fun PS2 game, though it has bits that hit my "must optimize" triggers even though I haven't really been able to optimize well due to being barely coherent and ill. My optimization triggers are kinda funny, I mostly wasn't aware of them a few years ago, but they show up in unlikely places. Games, sure. If you've ever played Settlers of Catan with me (or seen any of my inadvertently munchkiny RPG characters) you know that particular one. But I suspect it's also why I'm so frustrated by minor grammatical mistakes in procedures at work, and the like.
I've also played a couple fun games of EU3. Nothing as bizarrely ahistorical as the game with Navarre colonizing all of North America, the Carribean, Uruguay, and Argentine, and benignly ruling over a massively multiethnic population of westernized, protestant Aztec, Mohawk, and Cherokee. Weirdest recently was probably the Duke of Milan being overthrown by Puritan fanatics who proceeded to turn all of Italy into glorious Jerusalem on Earth (Protestant Administrative Republic) after conquering Rome and beating the Hapsburg Holy Roman Emperor in war after war.
I've also been re-reading the Sandman. It's been 12 years or so since I read it, and it's still very neat. Parts of it are fairly dated at this point, but it is of its time so can be forgiven.
I really am looking forward to when my cough is gone and I can breathe well enough to bike to work again.
Oh, and I've decided to stop posting about politics on the internet. Just gets me angry to no effect.
I've become much more able to recognize that I have a high fever than I was when last I had one, it was just much more apparent this time. My brain kept offering random words or phrases which had nothing to do with anything going on, and I very quickyl figured out why.
I've been playing Persona 3 lately. Fun PS2 game, though it has bits that hit my "must optimize" triggers even though I haven't really been able to optimize well due to being barely coherent and ill. My optimization triggers are kinda funny, I mostly wasn't aware of them a few years ago, but they show up in unlikely places. Games, sure. If you've ever played Settlers of Catan with me (or seen any of my inadvertently munchkiny RPG characters) you know that particular one. But I suspect it's also why I'm so frustrated by minor grammatical mistakes in procedures at work, and the like.
I've also played a couple fun games of EU3. Nothing as bizarrely ahistorical as the game with Navarre colonizing all of North America, the Carribean, Uruguay, and Argentine, and benignly ruling over a massively multiethnic population of westernized, protestant Aztec, Mohawk, and Cherokee. Weirdest recently was probably the Duke of Milan being overthrown by Puritan fanatics who proceeded to turn all of Italy into glorious Jerusalem on Earth (Protestant Administrative Republic) after conquering Rome and beating the Hapsburg Holy Roman Emperor in war after war.
I've also been re-reading the Sandman. It's been 12 years or so since I read it, and it's still very neat. Parts of it are fairly dated at this point, but it is of its time so can be forgiven.
I really am looking forward to when my cough is gone and I can breathe well enough to bike to work again.
Oh, and I've decided to stop posting about politics on the internet. Just gets me angry to no effect.