View From the Bushes

Well, I found out after I posted on Friday that my wife had strep, so the weekend got off to a great start. I guess most people think of strep as a really contagious, ultra-painful version of the common cold. But I guess it can also cause headaches coupled with nausea, which is what happened with my wife around one am on Friday night. Once again, I was thrust into the role of nursing my wife back to health, and as any one can tell you, I'm probably the least nurturing person around, so it comes to me with some difficulty. Then of course, there's the problem of being completely outnumbered by the children. You end up going from a "zone" defense to a "minimize casualties" defense.

I'm not sure if I also have strep. Certainly, I have many of the same symptoms, though in general I fared somewhat better, though after not getting much sleep Friday, I was pretty much useless on Saturday, but then that's nothing new. On Sunday, my wife was starting to turn the corner and I was hoping to get ahead of my own illness when I was called into work. It turns out that, once again, we had lost power to the server room, and just like before, it was all about the air-conditioning.

I guess the power was restored without too much fanfare, but when it came back up, the air conditioning did not come back with it, so were were left with plenty of electricity, rack after rack of devices for changing that electricity into heat, and no air conditioning. I didn't have to come in for too long, but there's a definite art to having a truly idle day -- you have to really avoid anything that seems productive; generally you can get away with a shower and consuming enough food to keep the hunger pains away, but any activity beyond that and you've lost it. Your brain has to wake up, thoughts start percolating, and even TV is often powerless to re-zombiefy you.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross