A Sickly Week

So, after spending a week taking care of my sick wife and daughter, I was still healthy. Best of all, they were both on the mend, and we were able to spend the last couple of days wandering around New York seeing wonderful things and enjoying each other's company.

Unfortunately, I was booked on a 6:30 AM flight out of LaGuardia. Since we don't have a car in New York, this meant that I had to take a shuttle that was departing at 3:30. Actually, since we were switching over to Standard Time, I actually had to leave at 2:30. Which meant that I had to get up at 2. Which meant that I had about two hours of fitful sleep in my last night in New York.

The shuttle was filled with college students, none of whom had slept the night before. One of them responded to this lack of sleep by developing motion sickness, which necessitated a visit to a gas station and an emergency clean-up by the driver. We finally made it to the airport at 4:30, I whizzed through check-in (actually, there were only about fifty people in the terminal, so it was really easy), and was able to hurry up and wait.

Long story short, I arrived in Roanoke about twelve hours later. The highlight of my travels was a stopover in Cincinnati, where I got to have Cincinnati Five-Way chili in Cincinnati. As I'm something of a chili junkie, this was actually a fairly significant event.

When I finally got home, I decided to stay up until ten or so to avoid getting jetlagged.

The following day, I started getting sick. I've spent the last two weeks trying to get better.

So, anyway, this is a very roundabout explanation for my absence over the past two weeks. I'm starting to feel better, although I'm still producing various effluvia in exciting colors and textures. I'm starting to think that I might have allergies. Alternately, I must consider the possibility that my body has simply decided to take up mucus production as a profitable sideline.

At any rate, I'm going to try to return to my blogging responsibilities. As a apology, I offer the following clips from "Flight of the Conchords," which gave me many a smile during my time of misery.



If you liked that one, take a peek at this: