I have barely even opened my home email at all, let alone answered any. I have barely done any of the things I usually do at home in the evenings (email, paying bills, reading, genealogy stuff). I’ve been on call for work, plus it is December and given where I work that means everything is going nuts and people are all on edge because it is the busiest time of year, and so every little thing matters more than it would any other time. So I’ve been taking more work home than I usually do. And when I haven’t been doing that, the last thing I’ve wanted to do is sit at my desk and be productive. So a little TV watching has happened. And some sleep has happened.

But basically. Busy and exhausting week at work, means nothing gets done at home.

That is OK I guess. I’ll catch up eventually.

Maybe. Don’t know why I think I’ll get caught up. Last time I was caught up on all my basic routine tasks was something like 2003…. and even then there were long term projects outstanding.

Suddenly at about 22 UTC yesterday I started rapidly feeling unwell. Standard UTI/Stones symptoms for me. I had just recently (within the last few days) been fully back to normal after the last round at the end of October. Grrr. Not happy about this.

I had someone fill in for me at a meeting I had at 23 UTC and headed home a bit early.

Now, about 5 hours later, I have a fever of 311.0 K. It has been rising over the past few hours. I took some Rx pain killers and some fever meds, but I am still a decent bit uncomfortable. And I’m doing what I have been told and drinking a LOT, so staying within arms reach of the facilities is of course mandatory.

Lovely. Just lovely.

On the bright side, it is supposed to snow here today… for a little bit before it turns into rain.

I am eating a hamburger and fries Brandy made now. Then I am hoping the pain killers kick in fully soon and knock me out for the night and everything feels better in the morning. That would be nice.

Um…. I have several things I could potentially talk about, but they would all take more than a few minutes, and I am about to go into a three hour meeting, so I have no time for that. However, I will post anyway, because if I didn’t, by the time I got out of the meeting, I would have not made any posts today, and it would be the first day in a long time I hadn’t posted, so I’ll make this post with no real content. Woo.

Last night driving home from work I started getting a headache and a bit lightheaded. After a brief stop to get coffee with Brandy and a quick trip to the grocery store I crashed at home. I didn’t actually just go to sleep, although I should have. But I was basically non-functional and non-productive all evening. I didn’t even look at my email… let alone answer any. I didn’t do anything else even remotely useful.

I pulled the Poang in front of my computer and watched recorded C-Span coverage of various Presidential campaign events for three or four hours. And some other news shows. Oh yeah, and an episode of C-Span’s Presidential Libraries series. For those of you who may not have been watching, it is a very good series. If you missed them, you can watch all the ones that have aired so far on the C-Span website I linked to two sentences ago. There is only one left to air.

Anyway, I did absolutely nothing useful, but I was still up until 10 UTC or so.

So today I am tired, and still have a headache.

Oh, and there was an earthquake on the other side of Puget sound from us at about 6:30 UTC yesterday. We didn’t feel anything ourselves, but the highlight of the news coverage of the evening was when the breathless news reporter talked on the phone to someone who had felt it. When asked how strong it was, the guy said “It was so strong my dog got up and walked around.” It made me laugh. It was a very small earthquake.