I managed to stay mostly upright for an entire day after being laid out flat with flu the entire weekend.. I am feeling better.. but not yet fine.. I feel kinda washed out.. not much energy.. not much strength.. but also not much fever. Poor Diane.. I must have kept her awake all night again last night.. teeth chattering and coughing.. .. She got up once and got me another blanket to put on top of the down comforter and blanket I was already wrapped in..
She’s a wonderful nurse.. She’s taken care of all of us as we’ve gone through this flu..me, gabe matt, ian, Britt.. we’ve all had it.. .. Last night as I lay down to go to sleep, I heard everyone’s distinct coughs.. Did you ever notice how folks coughs are as distinctive as their voices ? ..
I woke today feeling like I’d burned though the worst of it.. I’ve felt pretty good all day.. but now that it’s getting dark, I feel the chills coming back on..
I want my money back on that flu shot…
another thing.. My sense of time has been burned out by this bug.. I sat in the same chair and worked for 9 hours today and only got up once.. and I didn’t even notice.. I was late to several meetings.. and I just looked up and it was after 7.. I thin my internal clock has been cooked ..
nite all.. nite Sam
-me
John:
Tasked with listening to a recording of a bunch of high-tech business folks discussing various M2M topics and turning this into a sensible document, if possible (while having to guess at just who is talking) I began by listing participants. “Mad Scientist” wouldn’t work as your title, but I’d forgotten what your official title is, so I googled you & came across your blog (and your title — I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting a bonafide IBM Fellow before).
1. I trust you’re feeling better.
2. I didn’t find Orlando to my liking either, although I did appreciate the warm temperatures. (How many such flat places have so many highways, cars, and Las Vegas-like hotels, everywhere, such that in addition to requiring a car to travel short distances a personal navigation device is required as well, since everywhere everything looks so similar? Is this truly civilization?)
3. I see you’re a voracious reader, in addition to being a mad scientist. I read frequently, too (I’m reading With Wings Like Eagles at the moment. Not owning a Kindle, I had to find a thin book at the airport, not wishing to lug around anything thick & heavy; this one is fairly thin & light. I’d never heard of Air Chief Marshall Dowding — featured in it — before. The book turned out to be work-related, as Robin Duke-Woolley’s dad worked for Dowding during the Battle of Britain, as a Spitfire pilot and group captain.)
Anyway, I note that the way I’ve come across certain books is quite different in some situations. See http://www.realitytest.com/resource.htm#link11.
4. During our brief conversation, I mentioned the proposed commercialization of Shackleton Crater. The previous thin & light book I read, very recently, was Blind Descent (the first book I’ve picked up in a long time that I found difficult to put down), by James M. Tabor. This featured a personality named Bill Stone, among others, and I googled him, too, finding this 2007 TED presentation: http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_stone_explores_the_earth_and_space.html.
Bill