Damn SARS

Well, I was sick as a dog for most of last week. Sometime after I got back from Maryland, I got hit by a stupendous badass of a virus that knocked me on my ass for about five days straight. I was sleeping for 18 hours a day, coughing, sneezing, staggering around delerious, loss of coordination, you name it. I'm feeling better now, I'm still a little tired, but most of the symptoms are gone, except for this strange habit I've picked up of waking up every few hours while I'm trying to sleep.

Anyway, this has put me behind at work, so I'm staying at work till like 10pm every night this week trying to catch up. Hm, what else:

I found a gorgeous five bedroom house in seattle for $175k and nearly started to weep like a little girl. For reference, a two bedroom dump in a ghetto in the bay area costs about $500k. I really need to get promoted and get out of here.

Neil Stephenson's Quicksilver comes out today, and I have a huge literature erection. I'm leaving right after work tonight and picking it up at Kepler's books, and then I'm going to go home and see how much of it I can read before my eyes fall out of my head. I'm really, really excited about it, Cryptonomicon is one of my favorite books ever, and this is some sort of sequel, but not really. Honestly, I've enjoyed everything Stephenson has ever written, including the two books he wrote as Stephen Bury, and the hard to get stuff like The Big U. The man roxxors my boxxors.

Oh, and I got to play with a T-mobile Sidekick the other day. It really is pretty fucking cool. I want one. It's a lot more hip and fun and well designed than a blackberry, which might have tri-band, but it doesn't have PIZZAZZ! I'm not really willing to switch providers until November 26th, which is when they theoretically allow us to move numbers between carriers. I'll believe THAT when I see it. They've been chargings us for the switchover for years, god forbid they actually enact it.