Working Group on Sinus Decolonization

A week ago this afternoon, I started feeling bad: achy, kinda fevery, lethargic. I chalked it up to flu. But then I got these massive headaches. At night I had intense, repetitive, feverish dreams about loading some random .el file in Emacs (no, seriously), and would wake up to more headaches, drenched in sweat.

First doctor said it was allergies or viral; second doctor thought it was bacterial, and gave me a prescription for antibiotics. (I don't usually get second opinions, and I didn't ask for antibiotics, but I've never felt so awful for so long.)

On Wednesday, I stupidly decided to go into work to take care of a few things, and scared a few people with how I looked. I slowly shuffled back to the bus and came home.

On Thursday, I was supposed to go with my wife and kids to Penticton for a weekend family gathering...that was out. I think I'd have thrown myself out the door within a few blocks. They left, and I've been having a sickie bachelor weekend. I started watching "Battlefield Earth" as soon as they left; I lay there on the couch, letting John Travolta's cackle wash over me and laughing weakly.

I watched a lot of movies. I read the Internet. I ate frozen pizza. I upgraded my wife's laptop to the latest version of Ubuntu, and fixed a Flash bug that's been irritating her. I had vague doubts about my choice of career, but I'm putting that down to lack of sleep...haven't had a good night's worth in a week now.

I've been feeling slowly better after starting the antibiotics. And once I figured out I was taking entirely too much acetominophen (I think I was getting rebound headaches), I started feeling even better. For some reason I'm still getting woken up at 1:30am by headaches, but I'm hopeful that'll go.

The family's due back this afternoon. I'll be back at work tomorrow, and I'm glad: I'm pretty bored of sitting on my ass all the time. (I'd be happier to spend more time with my family, but we've got another, longer vacation coming up in OH CRAP three weeks.)

Okay, enough. Go listen to "Volunteers" by Megafaun. (That's why I'm having career doubts. Beard + acoustic music...sigh.)