Month: December 2012

Today is one of those days.

My head is still pounding because of this stupid Cold From Hell and I suppose the weather changes aren’t really helping.

I am thankful that the rain is in fact RAIN… Otherwise I’d be outside shoveling snow to keep the driveway clear. The weather people claim we’re supposed to see snow later in the afternoon but I’m beginning to doubt that. It’s 40F up here. I suppose that a cold front could come in later today and drop the temp by 8 degrees but the sky is trying to clear, so even if that happened I don’t think there’d be much to worry about.

I’m still muddy brained and have been trying to do the memorization I need to do. But everything is still all jumbled up and nothing is sticking in my head.

I suppose that I’m nostalgic because the weather reminds me of being in the South and Midwest when I was in school. I’ve always had a hard time memorizing things… I remember events, and even many things I’ve read pretty well but remembering exacting formulae or equations has never been something I found I could do very well. Odd that… since you’d think that computers would require that kind of ability.

I’ve also received a couple of emails today that while very welcome, have triggered a nostalgic frame of mind.

One of these was a Holiday Greeting from the sister of an old friend. My friend died several years ago, but his sister and I exchange pleasantries several times a year. I couldn’t help but remember the last Christmas I saw my friend and how something seemed ever so subtly off. At the time I put it down to my friend having made a long drive across Florida just to see me. It’s a wonder that he made it at all in that beater he was driving.

I can still see him driving away from my parents home a little blue cloud of burning oil in his wake. 

That was the last time I saw him. We spoke several times after but it wasn’t until the end that he let on how sick he’d been or how much pain he’d been in.

I miss him. Especially at this time of year. 

Then out of the blue I got another email from someone I’d lost track of 20 years ago. Since I’ve observed that things come in threes I’m waiting for the last thing…

This person is someone that I’d known way back at the beginning of time. He’s done pretty well for himself and that is a relief. 

I sent him a highly condensed version of what has gone on over the past 20 years. I’m waiting for his reply. Nonetheless I have recalled quite a bit of the things that were going on way back then. 

This has taken me down a mostly pleasant nostalgic path in my memories. 

I see now that it’s hailing outside. Nice BB sized balls of ice. That will make the roads nice and icy and it will also make any snow removal much more interesting.

Mother Nature you are a cruel and heartless bitch!

Well time to see if I can put anything more into this aged defective brain.

Then I’m going to go about moving my desk back where it belongs.

And the desk is back where it belongs. I’ve been outside shoveling snow twice now. Once at the high point of the storm and then at the end of it.

Clearing the Ice balls was the hard part, clearing the wispy fluffy stuff wasn’t that hard the second time around.

And now… the sky is clearing again… 

Like I really needed to be outside in the cold….

Ah well. 

C’est la vie

After spending the weekend in bed alternately coughing, hacking, choking and with nose bleeds producing enough blood to make several “B”-Movie  slasher films.

I’m finally on the down side of this cold thing.

I still have a slight ringing in my ears and suspect that there’s little obstruction in the right that could lead to a full blown ear infection.

Needless to say I haven’t been any fit company so if you tried to call or sent email I’m sorry you didn’t reach me, although you may be glad you didn’t. I’d turned the phone ringer off so that I could sleep.

On the plus side… I’ve been able to avoid decongestants for about 24 hours which means that my mind is clearing and my memory is working again. The reason that I avoid decongestants is that they really mess with my head and I don’t like that. I’d rather put up with using a box of kleenex an hour. 

Of course I’ll bitch and complain about it no matter what.

Hey, It’s my god-given right as a man to bitch and complain when I’m sick, and I expect special treatment too. Of course what I expect and what happens are two entirely different things.

Even the dogs rotate looking after me. When they change shifts they pause and you can almost hear one telling the other “GOOD LUCK… Maybe we should just kill him and eat him.”

The down side in all of this is that I’m way behind in a bunch of things I had planned. Not the least of which is memorization for the class I’m working my way through.

Then there’s the christmas cards and of course the decorations for the house. Essentially nothing got done this weekend.

I’m a scary scruffy sight too. I haven’t shaved in 4 days or done much in the way of grooming at all. I recall having a shower sometime yesterday but I may have missed a day prior to that.

So off to accomplish the things that I’ve let slide.

Memorization first then the other things.