Almost Like Being There

Rush played in Denver last night. We had talked briefly about trying to go, but me getting sick put an end to all of that. Instead, at about 9:30 last night, 7:30 Mountain time (stupid time zones), I logged into the Periscope app, zoomed the map in on Denver, and sure enough there was a feed from the show. I listened for about an hour before my head cold and the time difference caught up to me.

It was almost, not quite, like being there.

Walking Dead Trailers

Today was The Walking Dead day at the San Diego Comic con. Well… at least I think it was. I really don’t know the convention scenes. Regardless, there are two new trailers to psych us up. First, the trailer for Season Six of The Walking Dead. Four minutes of… well… nothing really. But still, awesome.

Possibly more interesting, and definitely more imminent, is a trailer for Season One of the spin off show, Fear the Walking Dead.

The new show premiers on my kid brother’s birthday. Happy Birthday, John! Now lets watch civilization end! WOOHOO! I read a live tweet of the two panels. Sounds like Fear the Walking Dead won’t be quite as… gooey is the original show, as the zombies haven’t had much time to come unglued. I’m really looking forward to seeing where they go with this. In the original show, civilization falls off camera. In the new show, we’re going to get a front row seat.

Cold Therapy

While my beloved wife was out of work sick early in the week, she used the HBO Go app on Apple TV to binge watch Silicon Valley and Veep. Over the last two days I one upped her by binge watching the same episodes of those two shows, and almost the entire season of The Leftovers.

Granted, the sinus pressure in my head made it so I mostly couldn’t focus my eyes on the television, and the pounding in my head meant I kept the volume down to a bare minimum, and also I had to take a nap every few episodes… but what else is a boy to do when he’s too sick to function?

I feel just as awful now as I did when I called in sick yesterday, never mind today. I can’t do it again tomorrow. I have to go in to the office. I have to. Someone needs to cure the common cold, STAT!

World Travelin’ Kids

The kids just left. It wasn’t even 5:00am. They are going on a two week vacation with their dad and step mother and two grandmothers. They are going to have the time of their lives, but we are going to miss them terribly, and we are very nervous to have them traveling so much without our being with them.

It’s been 10 minutes and I already miss them a ton. Sad face.

Sneeze, Cough, Honk

I made it to work today. In fact, I’m still sitting at my desk (with four minutes ’till quittin’ time). I feel like cow dung. Just getting beaten down by a bad cold.

I was prepared today. I brought a new, unopened box of tissues with me. When I sat down at my desk at about 8:45am I opened it up, pulled out that first tissue, honked my nose, and logged into work.

Around 4:00pm that box of tissues was empty.

This has not been a good day. Barring a miracle cure, I’d say there’s about a 0-5% chance of me not calling in sick tomorrow.

This sucks.

Sick

When we came back from New York my wife started to not feel so well. She ended up with a monster cold that kept her in bed for nearly the entire weekend. This morning while sitting at my desk at work I started sneezing and my nose started running. With each passing minute I could feel myself getting sicker and sicker.

Yippee.

Also, why is it that on the day one starts to feel sick while at work he or she is guaranteed to run out of tissues. I never run out of tissues on a day I need to wipe off my glasses. I only ever run out of tissues on the first day I start to feel not well.

Stupid empty box of kleenex.