Well, OK then. I was really thinking that I was going to be a lot better today, and I'm not. That kinda worries me. On the other hand, I'm not really any worse, which is encouraging. My main problem is the pain when I cough. Actually, it's there when I don't cough, too, if I just poke on it. Which means a coupla things. The first thing is, I shouldn't diagnose myself. It's always bad, and I'm always wrong. The second thing is that I'm gonna ignore the first thing, because self-diagnosis is fun when you're bored and just sitting around and doing nothing. So... I could have one of those superinfections like we've seen at the hospital many times over the last coupla-three years. The second thing is that I could have a RLL pneumonia. Or I could just have pleurisy. That hurts a lot, but it isn't particularly harmful. Or I could have a liver abscess from something or another. Or a sub-diaphragmic abscess. Or, or or... Well, or it could be about a hundred things. Whatever it is, I'm damned tired of it, and I want it to go away. My temp is still hovering around 100F, and I still feel pretty non-specifically crummy. Still got the cough, but I don't really have to cough very often when I'm sitting up. Maybe my whole problem is that I'm just not healing as fast as I want to... as fast as I used to. Anyway, enough of that. If I'm not better by tomorrow, then I'll go in and get a chest x-ray. Baby Bush seems to be using the word "evil" a lot lately, like he just discovered it. Or maybe I'm just noticing it more... it's kinda like he doesn't want us to get stuff mixed up, like maybe we would mistake evil for good or visa-versa... What he's talking about, of course, is the biblical evil; there is no "evil" for those of us who don't have supernatural beliefs. There is only humanity and nature, and since humanity is part of nature... well, that's all there is. And, as I was saying yesterday, or whenever it was, the universe does not care about our pain; by extension, then, the universe is evil? No, the universe does not care. We, the humans in our universe, have to care for ourselves and others, then. And those who don't care about others, are they then evil? No, they are simply part of the universe. So, does calling others evil make us better? We are good, they are evil? No... if there can be no evil, there can neither be good. Hmmm... I think that my temp is still going up, perhaps frying my brain here. I can't remember which direction this train was heading... so I think that I'll just dose myself up with some of that nasty cough syrup and go to bed, early though it may be. O'yeah, I forgot to mention in yesterday's entry that I was batchin' it this weekend... Karen and Kim and Lacee have gone off to KC on their annual "Kims' Birthday" trip.