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February 5, 2007
Weekend Review
aka: Under the Weather :|: Sleep, Commercials and a Bit of Football :|: Checking for Updates :|: Here's to Good Friends :|: This post is ALL OVER THE PLACE.
Where did that expression for not feeling so great come from -- Under the weather? What is that, like being followed around by a storm cloud filled with rain and thunder and lightning?
Anyhoo... I've been a bit unwell, not long after spending some time with my year-old nephew. Why is it that if you go near a kid who's been sick you catch whatever it is in mere nanoseconds? I simply forgot this when I paid my visit. Friday evening I began feeling, uhm, strange and suddenly really, really tired. I went to bed earlier than I normally do and sleep didn't show up. Instead I found myself in one big wrestling match with my comforter. Saturday wasn't bad and I felt okay but not 100 percent. By Sunday morning I was exhausted when I climbed out of bed, even though I thought I was feeling rested and better.
No such luck. I think I was awake for an hour and then just went back to sleep, hoping that this time I'd sleep until I could sleep no more and wake up okay. I repeated this 3 times during the day (go to sleep, wake up, go to sleep, wake up) and finally said enough! Time to watch the Super Bowl, which I did, hoping to see this guy's Super Proposal commercial aired on CBS. Instead I saw way too many Coke commercials, Bud Light commercials, CBS commercials (seeing Katie Couric one too many times made me more unwell) and only one that made me chuckle: Late Night with David Letterman, featuring Letterman AND Oprah. And the game itself? Bummer 'bout da Bears, but hey, that first touchdown moments after the national anthem was cool. :-)
Update:
I just remembered it was 2 commercials that made me laugh. The other one was the beer-stealing crabs. Go here and select the second clip.
In between the Bowl watching and pondering if goldfish crackers were safe to eat given the bizarre state of my innards, I hopped online to check for updates on the search for Jim Gray. The most current and reliable information is here. The blogging community is HUGE. That's a lot of eyeballs. Hopefully you put your eyeballs to good use over the weekend (thanks to those who did) and if you didn't, you still can. Just go here.
Speaking of friends, Friday before succumbing to the evil virus I emailed some of my friends, requesting that time permitting, they review the satellite images. Jim "Space Man" Thompson IMMEDIATELY jumped right in and not only posted the info on his own blog but also over at the Houston Chronicle's TechBlog (and thanks, Dwight!) Other folks I emailed wrote back to say they'd review the images and also ask their friends to do so. Thanks to all of you!
So... that's all I can deposit here right now. It's day three of what ails me but I'm hopeful that it'll be gone RSN. I'm off to have some oatmeal... maybe.
Cindy
Comments
"Why is it that if you go near a kid who's been sick you catch whatever it is in mere nanoseconds?"
Because children are disease vectors, plain and simple. Mine were. All are. It's WHAT THEY DO. It's their job. They keep our immune systems functional so we won't succumb to the first bird flu that comes along. At least that's my theory. The other theory is that they are an EVIL PLOT.
Brain matter deposited by: Jim Thompson on February 5, 2007 11:45 AM
Hope you are feeling a bit better today Cindy
Brain matter deposited by: Joost on February 5, 2007 12:13 PM