Well, not going to work wasn't much of a decision this morning... I got no sleep last night. Coughing all night long, and poor Karen just slept right through it. I hate it when she does that. Besides getting absolutely *no* sympathy, I have to watch her sleeping like the proverbial baby. There has been progress made, however... instead of my right side hurting when I cough, my whole belly hurts. O'yeah, the right side still hurts more... And sneezing is simply excruciating. So I'm trying really hard to avoid doing either. Generally I can feel the coughs coming on and I can at least grab my stomach, it doesn't hurt quite so much that way... but the sneezes sneak up on me, my diaphragm spasms and I wind up on the floor with tears in my eyes. On an entirely different subject... I've been drinking hot tea all day. I normally drink coffee and I'm OK with that, but we're still outta Actually, this philosophy spills over into all parts of my life... simple tea, cars, women, friends, computers... wait, scratch that last one. I think that it's because I don't understand the fancy stuff, and the simple stuff, the plain stuff, is quite sufficient. Or maybe I'm just cheap and stupid. One thing that I like about me... I can write a line like that last one above and nobody... well, very few people, anyway, will know if I'm serious or not. The trick to doing this well is simple: I don't know myself, so actually everyone's guessing. On the other hand, nobody probably gives a shit either way. From what I could tell, it was yet another beautiful fall day here. I did go out once today, to Walgreens to get some cough syrup. I really hate cough syrup, the OTC stuff doesn't really seem to be very effective, but it's tolerable; the prescription stuff really works, but the codeine does funny things to my head. The codeine might be fun if I wasn't sick, which is why it's a prescription drug. Anyway, I've never tried it when I was well... actually, I've never had any left over from the sick times. I have stingy doctors, they never give me enough to make it through a sick spell, much less have any left over for recreational use. It's about 22:30 and I'd better call it a night, I guess. I just hope it will be a restful one.
filters, so I decided to go with the tea. And I remembered how much I love hot tea. It's really just as easy as coffee, and I don't need fancy tea at all, the house brand is just fine. We do have various kinds of fancy stuff around, but I've never really learned what I like with the fancy stuff, but I know that there are some kinds that I don't like.