Month: January 2018 (Page 1 of 2)

When last we met, I was going to bed feeling feverish and sick. I expected to call into work sick the next morning. I woke up early and felt perfectly fine.  I lay there amazed at how quickly the sickness passed. I got up and fed the cat. It became readily apparent that I was not fine. I was feverish and weak and had trouble standing up. I called in sick and went back to bed. I slept until 11 am.  I was up for a couple of hours and then took a 2 hour nap. I didn’t start feeling better until late Tuesday.

I don’t remember if I mentioned it on here, but I got an Alexa talky thing for Christmas. I haven’t found it super useful yet. I  mostly use it to play music through a bluetooth speaker. I have found one inspiring/depressing thing to do with it during the frigid Illinois winter.

Me- Weather, please?
Alexa- It is currently 7 degrees (F)
Me- Sigh… Weather Nice France?
Alexa- In Nice France it is currently 54 degrees (F)
Me- MEGA SUPER SIGH! Thank you.

I do want to add a note. In a year, 2017, in which I didn’t really write anything interesting the reader numbers on this blog went up significantly.  Maybe that’s the secret to successful blogging. Don’t make quality content just post on the exact same days every week.  

I Get An Ouchy

I am not sure how I did it but I injured my rib. I think it might have been a Saturday ago when I moved some furniture around in my apartment. It doesn’t hurt most of the time, just sometimes when I cough or roll over in bed. It’s not nearly as bad as the time I tore a muscle eight years ago. I found that Bio Freeze spray does wonders.

The Weird People Made a Flat Planet to Confuse the People on the Normal Planet

When we flew out in our rocket into space, we realized that the weird alien guys from Dark City had been running an experiment on our planet. There was a normal spherical planet but the weird aliens had mad a flat version of that planet right next to it. Our spaceship was rushing toward the sun which was the ceiling. We had to abandon the ship and head back to the planet before it was too late. We launched four of the crew members but me and another person staid until it was almost too late.  When he jettisoned off in our space suits we were so close I could touch the ceiling. We used our jet to send us back to the planet before we got too far away from its gravity. On the way back we got caught for a bit in the gravity of the planet’s three moons that all seemed really close to each other.  We escaped that made sure we headed to the real spherical planet and not the fake flat one the aliens had made.  I woke up.

The Minnesota Vikings Follow Galaxy Quests advice

2018 dawned on a very cold Monday. I ventured out into the frozen wasteland to get some food but other than that Jobu and I snuggled and stayed warm.  The rest of the week was just as cold. It didn’t get remotely warm until Sunday when it finally got over freezing. My days consisted of going to work and then staying home and trying to keep warm. I think Jobu was getting sick of me always being around. My friend texted me a couple of times with “You wanna go out?” I replied with the temperature every time.

My Personal Favorite Music Monday Posts of 2017 In Order They Were Posted

Traditionally Christmas for me is very much a family thing. Everybody gets together and we have big meals etc. Not so much this year. My family was all dispersed. There was no get together.  Christmas ended up being just Jobu and I. I don’t buy Jobu presents.  My gift to him each year is putting up with him.
My mom was back home for New Years eve weekend so I did head up and see my parents then and exchanged gifts. I also saw Elf the musical on New Year’s Eve. I have never seen the movie and neither had several people at the play. I really enjoyed it. I highly recommend you see it if you get the chance.

It got really cold later in the week. In fact, as I was driving home New Year’s Eve I watched the thermometer on my car drop and drop.  It was like I was driving through a pocket of cold air. It went down to minus nine F. I had the heat on full blast and the car was getting colder. Ice began forming on the inside of the windows and I started to think I might need to put my gloves back on. I few miles later the temp climbed all the way up to a balmy -2.

Here’s the soundtrack to Elf the Musical