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Thursday was a sick day. Clobbered and miserable. At the end of the day I greeted the returned classicaljunkie and she gave me Tylenol cold & flu pills, which (after an hour of sleep) snapped me back into sensibility like a light switch. I swear by this product now.

Friday did some contract work for the first time in a while. (This coming week I'm gonna be doing a lot of it, actually.) After that, delivered an HTML snapshot of the web client's table UI (not super-easy to do since it's a slippery DHTML app) toradiotelescope. He insisted that this demo needs to make a much better first impression than I was preparing, and then volunteered to help make it happen himself. I have no problem with this sort of criticism!

Saturday started to set up the machine that will host jmac.org. After moving over! It's mostly Gameshelf episodes, and I discover that a few seem to exist in duplicate. Well, i can do something about that, at least. Then attended an art salon featureing cthulhia's paintings, marymary's poetry and C's recorder-playin. It was delightful.

Sunday, more machine setup, and reaching out to prodigal jmac.org users via email to tell em what's up and ask if they'd like to stay. Discovery, via daerr, of Google's domain-level management apps. I am likely to point jmac.org's MX records at it to let Google handle all my domain's incoming mail. Yeah, I know.

Afternoon meeting with taskboy3000 about the Gameshelf shoot we're having on Tuesday, including a script read-through. Also, we played MULE again. Trader Joe's dinner with classicaljunkie, and then we hung out at dictator555 and Nate's place for a while, drinking their tea while I wrote some new game news segments. It will be a good show.

Did very little since posting yesterday, other than lie on the couch. In the afternoon dictator555 came over and dropped off some stuff and hung out a little, which was nice.

Had a solid sleep between midnight and 10, and the illness is gone now, though of course I'm mindful that my guts have taken a beating. Just gulped two glasses of Gatorade and more chicken broth.

Going to wash up and go to Kendall, I think. There is a sucky thing afoot in that Dan is asking for a demo of my ITA project, but since I really haven't been putting much time into it lately (esp. very lately, between holidays and sick) that's not a question I can answer now. Will endeavor to turn this into a ocnversation about deadlines or even basic expectations, which really haven't come up at all yet.

i just got fuckin food poisoning from Alex Pizza. I think. In a serious serial barf-mode. Poor Zarf had to listen twice, and then I made him get me from stomachey things I remembered from last year's poisoning, back when I had a health care plan with a dial-a-nurse option. (That was from some cheapie Thai place, I can't even remember which now.)

Wish me luck.

Sort of. I'm going to take it easy with the food coz I don't feel hungry, despite not having eaten (and retained) anything but a bowl of chicken both over the last two days. I take this as a sign to go slow.

About to enjoy another bowl o broth. Mmmm

Most of last night actually saw me concentrating more on staving off a terrible caffeine-withdrawl headache, from going a whole day without coffee. I can't imagine the last time that happened. Was snacking on Excederins, and even chewed on the Jolt gum that meerkitty happened to give me a while ago. Ironically, when I had enough to achieve equilibrium, I dropped into 8 hours of solid sleep.

I am suffering from my first known case of probable food poisoning... yaaay.

Did anyone else dine at the Diesel last night? If so, how are you feeling?

Not blaming the cafe, but a cookie from them plus some pirate booty from shaw's is all I et last night. Had a giant Thai noodle lunch, but too long before I started feeling sick for it to be a likely culprit, said the nurse I spoke to.

Thanks to mrmorse and kyroraz for meals-on-wheelsing for me. Thanks to Tags for selling me a nice air conditioner a couple of years ago.