My sister-in-law brought home an illness from her work.
A week or two later my wife has it.
A couple of weeks after that I have it.
A virus with fever and a bad cough.
It is not the flu (we all had the flu shot) and there is nothing that can be done except let it run its course.
You're not safe in your own home.

Thanks a LOT!

Now i have it!

I always heard you could get a virus on these danged Computy things.

I'm back from my trip to NYC for my mom's surgery. It did not go as well as we might have hoped, since the surgeon found more cancer than the scans showed, and had to cut the vagus nerve below her collarbone to remove a tumor that had infiltrated the nerve. He says that he removed all the tumors he could see, but that this does not mean he saw all there was. She has vocal cord paralysis on the side where the nerve was cut, BUT she still can speak and swallow (although she will have to learn some new techniques to make swallowing easier). The doctors are hopeful that the remaining vocal cord will eventually learn to compensate for the paralyzed one, and speaking and swallowing should become easier.

Now we just have to hope there will be no more tumor growth. It is not likely she will be willing to go through this again.

My mom called me this morning. She is feeling pretty upbeat today because she had a swallow test that went well yesterday, and she is now on a normal diet, eating her first omelette and drinking her first cup of coffee in a week. Even hospital food tastes good right now

We will take all the positives we can get... "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"

I should be ramping up my output now that I'm back... had everything at home turned off for the week while I was gone. Hopefully that will bump the numbers up a little bit more.

yeah, I've noticed that the laptops run a lot hotter too. My Lenovo laptop at work runs so hot when it's running WCG all the time that I have to run it LOWER than the rated speed or the fan can't keep up, it overheats, and reboots itself.