no news is good news, right?

My rabidly loyal readers will have certainly noticed some bizarre changes in my recent blogging habits. First of all, it has been a hell of a long time since I have published more than a paragraph and even longer since I've written anything personal. I've even only updated at all three times in the last ten days.

What the hell is going on, you ask?

I've been really sick and not fun sick either like you may have been led to believe. The only kind of fun sick is when you're not really sick at all. But faking sick is not something I'm really big on... anymore. Back when I was in Jr. High School I was fun sick a lot. There was one stretch of time that I think I missed 8 Mondays in a row. That was awesome. Of course when I consider that being “fun sick” was only an avenue to avoid the complete and utter suffocation and misery that were my school years, it doesn't sound so great.

The last time I faked sick was in 1990. Mostly to avoid a crushing exam in chemistry, it was great for about 37 minutes... until the chest pains started. A few hours later the family doc was looking at my chest x-ray showing me what pneumonia looked like.

I was sick for months. Set me way back in school. I felt lost for the whole year. From then on I was too superstitious to fake sick again... for a while anyway.


Back to the present...

As I said, I've been sick and haven't felt like doing much. My wife took several days off of work to accommodate my illness--being a stay at home dad she was my pinch hitter for 2 and a half days. It didn't help that my kids were also sick. But she's a sweetie and took good care of me while I grumbled and stumbled about the house, coughing and wheezing and begging for death. Plus my stupid brother is moving his family to stupid France. Sorry, my brother is far from stupid but that doesn't mean I have to like it. France is so lucky.

Between that and being ill and kind of busy otherwise, I haven't really felt like blogging. The good news is I have tons of ideas on backlog. The bad news is that they all suck.

Just a warning for anyone hoping things are going to get better around here anytime soon.