I’m taking time to have a cup of tea. I can actually smell the smokiness of the korean green tea. The sweetener in the tea still tastes a bit strange.

I felt a bit of irritation in my sinuses and the back of my throat on Sunday morning. I knew that I was going to get sick. Monday rolled around and I was well enough to get ready and drive myself to work. Suffering at my desk, coughing, dripping, hacking, I ripped through my stash of napkins and paper towel.

I left work and made my way to the grocery store to buy a corn chips, gallon of orange juice, Tyelnol TheraFLU, and for the first time Cold-Eeze. I took in lots of fluids and two-thirds of the seemingly endless bag of corn chips. Unfortunately my coughs were so violent that they triggered a gag reflex.

Alternating between the Cold-Eeze lozenges and orange juice (they can’t be mixed) I took a long nap which allowed for the phlegm to collect and rise when I awoke. Still dizzy, I didn’t want to eat anything solid for fear of having to run to the bathroom.

Today, I’m still a bit dizzy. I’ve had some solid food along with an Ensure. Still touch and go

I’ve just moved from using a hardware router to repurposing a box for smoothwall software curiously, I can’t access my site from within the local lan…

More to come

it’s not so great being the team lead. I’m the team leader this week for the small strategy team I participate in. I didn’t think that so much red tape and political stuff happens as I help troubleshoot developer’s issues. The summer is a quiet time for new projects, but the few that we have going are massive.

I don’t have time to enjoy my high-speed wireless internet.