Sick on vacation not sick of vacation

Been sick this week. It's one of those colds that started off slow as a weird sore throat and has mutated into a normal stuffy head, runny nose, sore throat sort of cold. Ya know, the sort of thing that most people call the flu now. I still don't understand that. When I was younger, a cold was what I just described and the flu was an illness that affected your stomach in some way. If there was vomiting involved at some point, then it was the flu. I'm not quite sure when that changed but it does seem to have done so. Maybe 'I've got the flu' still sounds better than 'I've got a really bad cold' when you call into work sick?

I didn't have to call into work sick. I've been on vacation all week. Yup, spending vacation sick. Feels great. On the plus side, I've got more time off coming so I should be able to enjoy some of that time. I had two weeks of vacation to burn up before the end of the year and we shut down for the last week of the year so I was scheduled to work for very little of December eitherway.

The goal for this time off was to get the Archive in shape again or at least a little bit organized again. One of the problems with having such a diverse set of interests is that I collect stuff from all over. It doesn't take long for this sort of thing to get out of control. On the plus side, finding stuff I forgot I own is fun. Found a neat Optimus Prime from 2001, stamp releases signed by Tom Baker (the Fourth Doctor) and Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith), a recording of the Dave Letterman show from about ten years ago with special guest Brett Favre right after the Packers won the Super Bowl and a NES Advantage controller, amongst other things.

Things could be better but I'm glad that they're not worse.

Geekisode 5

In the beginning, there was nothing.

Well, not exactly nothing, not nothing at all. It was just mostly nothing. A few people, a box and nothing else but white. It looked like nothing, nothing much anyway.

So, in the beginning, there wasn’t much of anything.

Then, there was a thought. It wasn’t much of a thought but, under the circumstances, it was the best thought available. “All this white is a bit on the annoying side,” the thought went, “shouldn’t there be something?” The land agreed with the thought. It filled in something from the brain that generated the thought, writing the something that he knew, something familiar. Slowly the nothing, the blinding white, faded, replaced by Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

The city formed. The box was now on a street corner. The people were on the street near it. The city existed but was inhabited by just a few. For the moment.

- The preceding is a preview of the novelization of ‘Compound Geeks’ episode ‘CoNIS Part Four’, which is scheduled to appear on the KTNE forums on 18-Dec-2006. -

Life Lesson Learned

I believe that every day we learn something new. It may not be something life altering or anything of that scope. It may even be that we don't realize what we've learned that day but we are always learning something.

Yesterday I learned that mixing brandy and wine in the same glass is a prescription for a tummy-ache.

Ouch.