My optimism that this flu would pass quickly has dwindled as ‘quickly’ was days ago. Time to bring in the big guns and go see a doctor. Ethan hasn’t caught it even with both mom and dad ill, but grandma did catch it when she came for a visit.

What a time to be sick too. All projects need attention and then one site I work on gets hacked and I have no choice but to give it attention I have no time for. I feel like one of those fellows with the horses tied to all limbs…and a viscious hacking cough. Hey, everyone’s allowed a little pity party once in awhile.

I suspected, and my suspiscion bore out, that my Friday morning discomfort was a harbinger of sickness to come. Saturday was the sickest I’ve been in years but with the fever gone left only a sore throat in it’s wake. Yesterday was also the day my son turned 2, and we are having a little party today. Like clockwork (terrible two’s) he had the worst tantrum we ever seen lasting 45min at least dispite our best efforts and involving him screaming, flailing himself around, vomiting in his excitment a couple of times and climing out of his crib. What to do, what to do… this is when parenting gets fun.

It’s a beautiful sunny morning and the coffee’s brewing. It should be like a Maxwell House commercial and I should feel great.

But I feel like my whole body and brain are sick and shakey. A combination of a year or more of very late nights, project stresses, and Ethan sleeping worse and being more demanding it taking it’s tole. Much of the way I’m feeling though I blame on the lack of sleep. It affects so much; impatience with wife and son, innability to think and focus effectively till I get a little caffine, suseptible to illness, just feel generally ‘icky’.

It’s something I’d like to change but I feel like I’m carried along by necessity. Things just have to get done and before you know it, it’s 2 or 3am again.

Someone found my site with the search term “nuditiy”? – tee hee!

What is that anyway?

Me boy’s turning 2, and being a little ‘Bob the Builder’ fan figured that’d be the perfect subject of a birthday card for him. Just sketched it out quickly…