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Ice cream and Doctor Who sound like a perfectly logical plan.

vw, I'm on AIM now, if you're still around.

ETA: Vive la résistance!

Daniel, you are a prince among men. I am now fully loaded with google.ca and damn glad of it.

Shir, I totally endorse the ice cream and Dr. Who plan with a minor modification to include soft pillows and trashy magazines. Peace be to you and your kin. That is too much sorrow and worry in too short a time.

Sparky! I'm voting for NO head exploding and am envious of your journeys. Easy travels homeward.

basic asshat behavior.

Yep-- with a side of thinks he's all that and a bag of pitas.

As a person who is congenitally late, I feel I have considerable authority when I say, "Yes, he's an asshat." I am usually about 15 minutes late, but I explain, I apologize, I call and I grovel. My main problem is that, even though I am normally a pessimist, I am irrationally optimistic about the amount of time it will take me to get somewhere, plus I hate the way I look, so I sometimes end up changing clothes four or five times.

I fear that as time goes on, I will become my mother, a person we refer to as "the late Mrs. K."

I see your back pain and raise you whinging about my sinuses and chest cold. Bah. I canceled on my neighbors last night (don't want to get the baby sick) and my parents/grandmother today (don't want to get Grandma sick) and I feel like a tool.

You are not a tool! You're being very selfless not wanting to get others sick. I guess the plus side of the back pain is that I keep forgetting to worry about my sinus headache.

Tea:

I guess a compromise for today would be to find something fun that is closer to home. I really wanted to go to King Richard's Faire today, but I can't see an hour and a half in the car each way and walking around in cold weather. I'm just not up for it.

Over in buffistechnology, Theodosia says:

Daniel, Lifehacker.com says if you change your language preference over to UK English, you'll get your iGoogle tabs back, at least temporarily.

Works for me, when I open a new window.

Also, there is now a script for collapsing the side tab. [link]

Get better soon, sickies. No head asplody, please, and don't be down on yourselves for deciding you need to not spread germs, or that you need more rest.

After spending much of yesterday either asleep or cranky from still needing more sleep, I got about 10 hrs last night. And yet, I'm heading back for a nap.

For what it is worth, I keep a stash of Emergen-C packets of vitamin powder. On several occasions when I've been sure I was getting sick, they staved it off. Since they basically have the same vitamins I take anyway in the same or lower quantities, I don't know why. Maybe because it is in powder form you dissolve in liquid, so more of it gets absorbed more quickly? Anyway, while I guarantee nothing, I thought I'd mention it in case it works for anybody else.