Wow I am amazed how warm it feels out this morning.  I think it’s only in the mid-twenties and I worked up a sweat on the walk to the office, wearing a light jacket.  Everything is relative I guess.

That was a pseudo-lame weekend, due in part to the fact that I was pseudo-sick.  I spent most of last week really sick, afflicted with quite possibly the worst sore throat of my life.  I even went to the doctor on Wednesday, when the fever started kicking in.  Not that it really helped anything, as usual.  He gave me a bottle of pills about the size of my thumb.  Gee, thanks Doc;  I can’t even swallow a drink of water, much less a freaking gigantic pill.  Oh well, it cleared up eventually.  Hopefully I lost some of my extra holiday poundage over the course of my four-day fast.  Ever the optimist.  By Friday, I was actually feeling “OK” at best, so on the way home from work I hopped off the bus at Linwood and met Donette at Costco for happy hour.  We kicked around checking out all the latest merchandise and munching on the hor d’oeuvres for a good hour and a half or so, then headed home for a night of movies.  I signed up for Netflix again, solely for the purpose of checking out their “streaming movies” offering.  So far, I rate it “The Coolest Thing I Have Ever Seen.”  After spending about ten minutes getting it all set up, I can instantly stream movies to my new PS3 wirelessly.  It works perfectly too, no stuttering or buffering or any of the problems I was expecting.  They have a somewhat limited number of movies available for streaming, so I don’t know how long my fascination will hold, but I’m good for several months at least.

Saturday I was feeling relatively human, so when Martin called around 2:00 to tell me that he & Brice were up at Kennedy’s, I sprang out of bed, got dressed, and rushed up there.  It was definitely good to get out of the house for a while;  Watched the Missouri game and a bit of the football playoffs, and worked in some good planning on the BBQ’s that we’ll never do this coming summer.  That was about it for the day though;  Didn’t want to push my luck.

Sunday started off strong;  Donette woke up with some kind of unusual motivation and made pancakes for breakfast.  I don’t know exactly what prompted this flurry of activity, and I wasn’t asking.  Just enjoy the moment.  I didn’t share any of her energy though;  About 3-ish she headed out to watch a movie with some friends, while Gabe & I settled in on the couch for a day of TV.  I didn’t even feel bad about it really…  There were some entertaining games on all day, and it was still relatively nasty outside.  I’ve about had it with the snow I think, as have the dog and cat.  Poor lil’ animals are about bored to tears but there’s about three feet of snow in the back yard that isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.