*cough*

i seem to be developing a cough today. one of those deep dry hacking coughs. hopefully aggressive humidifier use tonite followed by this weekend's trip to comparatively warm and humid gulfport, mississippi will help me out, here.

(my stepmother is renting a house in gulfport for a few weeks, so i'm taking a weekend down there to hang out.)

in the "if life gives you lemons, put on a wacky comedy show about lemons" category, people are having way waaaaay too much fun recaptioning the warning graphics from www.ready.gov, the office of homeland security's "duck and cover" web site.

here's some of the excellent parody captions:
http://www.idlewords.com/chemical.html
http://www.idlewords.com/biological.html
http://www.idlewords.com/explosions.html
http://www.idlewords.com/nuclear_blast.htm
http://www.idlewords.com/radiation.html
http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/000290.html
http://insubordinate.net/archives/000224.html

aw shit.

the hacking cough includes a fever now. half an hour ago it was 98.9. now it's 100.5

quickly bat-regis, to the nyqil!

hmmmm.

called delta to find out what would be involved in cancelling the trip as far as re-using credit. i don't know if i'm going to do so, but i figured i'd look into it before tomorrow morning in case i wake up feeling like death.

long shower has helped, as have the drugs. will make go/no-go decision tomorrow am.

on the other hand

i have the best workplace ever.

today not one but TWO puppies came and visited. one was a 10 week old chocolate labrador who was wiggly and cute and adorable and fun. the other (who came and visited the ops room several times) was a 14 week old st. bernard who was so friendly and eager and soft (such soft fur) and just really sweet.

they both had that puppy smell, too.