Drat this cold…

I made it back to work at 6:00 A.M. on Tuesday morning, ran a few jobs, and looked forward to a pleasant week. Alas and alack, it was not to be. When my coworkers arrived at 7:00 A.M. they said I’d missed nothing important and I thought perhaps the week would continue that way.
In a word, NOPE!
It’s been a busy week in Lake Woebegone…whoops, got a little lost there.
It’s been a busy week in Lake Workbegone. On Tuesday Bob Harrison fresh from the cold of Portland received more requests than usual at his place of work. Here in Hawaii we like work, it’s good for the soul, but we like our rest as well. If we didn’t, we’d live in Minnesota.
The rest of the week kept up apace.
And none of that is the problem.
The problem is I seem to have caught a cold. Actually it may be a minor upper respiratory infection as my doctor would say. I’m not bothering to go unless it gets worse though, as there’s very little he can do about.
Luckily I may be in for a little better time of it than in the past as it’s been something like six weeks since I quit smoking. [As it turns out, and documented here, January 22nd, 2007 was the first full day I didn’t smoke, making six weeks not a bad guess.] I must admit that not smoking made being in airports a lot easier. I didn’t have to keep going through airport screening just to sneak out and grab a smoke while waited for my next plane. Instead I had all the time in the world to overspend on airport food.
Speaking of which the soup at SFO isn’t too bad. I got the Chicken Pot Pie, which is, as it sounds, more or less the filling of a pot pie without the crust.
Anyway I’ve been ill for days now and would have taken today off of work save for the fact that my supervisor decided to take two days off and the requests for jobs haven’t stopped coming yet.
Enough whining you say? I’m lucky to even have a job given my history? Yep, you are probably right. But to be honest, I’ve got very little to whine about in my life, so I’ll take what I can. 🙂
Aloha!