It’s day 11 of my winter cold. Unlike all but four hours of last week I feel well enough to be back in the office today and, better still, unlike those other four hours that I was in the office last week, I’m well enough to be reasonably productive today. I’m still congested and a […]

After thinking Monday morning that my cold had crested, as the day wore on I began to feel worse, and Tuesday morning it was clear that I wasn’t going to be able to function at work, so I called in sick. This morning I woke up feeling not a lot better, but concerned about taking […]

Along with so many others, I’ve spent the Christmas holidays sick. In the previous two entries, I wrote about feeling sick Thursday through Saturday, and my hope that I would shake it off by Sunday. I didn’t. In fact, after another horrible night Saturday of practically no sleep (even in a comfortable bed at my […]

In what seems to be the continuation of a pattern, I’m sick on my trip home. I noted that I had a sore throat and chills Thursday morning when I drove down here; the sore throat and chills have continued, to be joined by sneezing, coughing and a mild fever. Additionally, though unrelated, my acid […]

Yesterday I drove down to my hometown for the holidays. I woke up with a sore throat and mild chills, so I took my time preparing to leave, heading out around noon rather than the usual 7:30-8:00. The drive, which normally takes about three and a half hours, this time took a white-knuckled near five, […]

Our Internet connectivity at work came back up yesterday afternoon at 4:30. However, that was mostly academic, since I wasn’t really able to get online since: I’m acting division head today in my boss’s absence, which means, of course, that everything that could go wrong has waited until today to do so. No time for […]

Friday afternoon, just minutes before the end of the work day, the Internet connectivity at work went down. This morning it was still down–apparently our bureau and one or two others were taken off the Internet because of a suspicion of a trojan horse–but we were told that it would be back up today. Around […]

Some days I really enjoy being at work. Oh, it’s not so much that the tasks themselves are any less tedious or any more challenging on these days, but that sometimes I just become aware of the physical location, which really is quite nice for a bureau of a Big Government Agency. This morning, walking […]

So, here we are, little more than a week away from Christmas, and in fact only a week away from my heading down to my mom’s for the holiday, and I’ve yet to do a single bit of Christmas shopping. Normally someone who loves shopping, I think of Christmas gift shopping nonetheless as a horribly […]

Does anyone know anything about Doc Scantlin and His Imperial Palms Orchestra, specifically their “Swizzle” supper club performances at the Ronald Reagan Building? From their web site, and given that they’ve performed at such high-society weddings as that of Madeleine Albright’s daughter, and of Alexandra Miller and Alexander von Furstenburg, they sound fun but potentially […]