Sick call

So, Thursday morning I woke up with the beginnings of a cold: stuffy head, runny nose, slight sore throat. Things went downhill from there, and by Friday I could delete "slight" from the sore throat and add a dull headache and occasional cough. Despite periodic swilling of ersatz Nyquil, I slept poorly, and accomplished approximately nothing all day Saturday.

For once, I'm downright glad that I'm not employed. Not only am I not using up PTO that I'd much rather save for a vacation, but if I was working, I'd be truly pissed off at spending a perfectly good long holiday weekend on the sick list. Not that I enjoy being sick, you understand, but at least the timing of the "bug" is fairly irrelevant.