Watch out for the bug that's going around

I’ve got plenty to write about, but right now I feel like doing nothing.

Because I am sick as a dog. I feel like crap.

I don’t know where the expression came from, and I haven’t seen a dog as sick as I feel. I’m pretty lucky in avoiding the winter bugs, and I seem to have a pretty good resistance to them. Not this time. It started a day before New Years, and Marianne brought something else back from the east coast. I don’t know if these things mixed, or what… but the final result is matching my “hell flu of 1999”. That one was worse though, cause I had to fly. I got that at Sundance and took it to Rotterdam. My left ear was stuffed for six odd months afterwards. Now that was hell.

So what’s been happening in the week(!) I’ve been sick?

Besides the usual writing thing, albeit with a lot of coughing and choking thrown in, my chair hunt has reached a climax; I currently have a bid on something on Ebay. The next blog entry will determine whether I got it or not. Which one, you ask? It’s a Eurotech me7erg. Is it beautiful? Um, no. It actually looks a bit like something Terry Gilliam might put in one of his movies, but my god, the comfort and adjustability! I’ll tell you more as the saga completes itself. For now, wish me luck on my bid.

The weather over the course of the New Year thus far has been tumultuous. Heavy winds have buffeted us for a couple days now. Rather than clear the air, it was dusty – coming in from the desert. Today it’s calm, and visibility is amazing. The mountains look perfect in the distance. Staggering out of bed this morning and looking out to the backyard, I saw the wind had done a little work here too; a rather large branch came down from the avocado tree. The tree, being so large, I couldn’t determine where it came from. No harm to the tree, a bit of natural pruning, it’s something for me clean up and maybe a few avacadoes to pick up. Walking into the kitchen confirmed that. Marianne had already picked what she easily saw from the branch.

I’m saving, for my next entry, the most entertaining thing of the last couple days. I will leave you with a picture of what the fedex man left on my doorstep.