Arrrgh.
Wait... that's the way I started out yesterday, ain't it. O'well, it suffices. After I FTPed yesterday, I ate a bowl of cereal and went to bed. I was almost asleep when I started feeling really uncomfortable. I fought to overcome the feeling, 'cause I really wanted to go to sleep.

To make a long story short, I wound up getting up and throwing up. Then I started getting cramps and exploding from the other end. This was not fun, not at all.

I kept hoping that it was over but it kept returning. Finally, about 13:00, I called in sick.

Does everyone have trouble calling in sick? I always feel that I sound unbelievable on the phone, like I'm faking it. I carefully rehearse what I'm going to say and I know that I still sound fake. I just hate it. And it's hard to do even when I'm really really sick, I can't imagine what it would take to call in when you're not sick.

Working nights, I do get a lot of call-ins. I just really hate listening to someone who's trying to sound sick. Little whiney trembling voices... like they're trying to fake me out. Like I'm going to tell the boss, "Gee, they really sounded sick!"

I hate it when people play games with me, or try to. I just don't play those games. So you're not coming in to work. Gee, get well soon, I'll tell the boss. I don't really need to know anything more.

So... I spent yesterday afternoon messing with Partition Magic; I got a whole, unopened copy in the mail yesterday. In between trips to the bathroom, I was able to find out a lot about my disks, and the inadequacy of DOS to handle those disks. I now have an extra 2.5 gigs on my machine.

Unfortunately, I decided that I was not able to think really clearly due to the lack of sleep and the feeling shitty, so I didn't really do anything with all of that space. But skimming through the book, I think that I can use it a lot better than I'm doing now.

I particularly like the idea of using a relatively small partition for the OS, another larger one for program files and still another one for data. By doing this, I could completely back up my OS and data files on my second disk. This is going to be my project for this afternoon.

Back to last night... Karen, Kim and Bob went to a concert at Sandstone in KC, Michael Bolton. They left about 16:30, and shortly after that I went to bed. I was wakened about 22:30 by a thunderstorm, then I went back to bed and slept off and on until 08:30 this morning. And I feel a whole lot better. Stomach is OK, diarrhea is gone and I've had about a pot of coffee. I still feel drained, though.

I really wonder if I didn't have some food poisoning... I can't even remember what I ate Friday morning in the cafeteria, but I didn't really feel bad until eight or ten hours after that.

I have ads in the paper today for the vehicles, I sure do hope that I get some calls...