Rant #3,622: Fire

I have been burning the candle at both ends, and now, I am paying for it.

Helping my son with his job search, performing my own job duties, and doing other things for my family has pretty much burnt me out, and for the first time in a while, I am slightly under the weather.

I have a cold--or maybe it is an allergy, or a mix of both--but whatever it is, I got it, and my own wheezing at night is keeping me up when I should be sleeping.

I do feel a bit better than yesterday, so I don't believe this will last too long.

What's more, my wife is also under the weather ... but what she has is a bit worse than what I have, and she took off from work yesterday, and probably won't venture outside much today as she prepares--or hopes--to go to work on Saturday.

Our son is fine, I am getting better by the day, and my wife was better yesterday than she was a day earlier, so we will manage.

It almost reminds me of a few years ago, when my wife got the coronavirus pretty badly, so bad that I didn't spend any time in our bedroom for several days, and I slept on an old Castro Convertible in our third bedroom for more than a week or two.

I, then, supposedly got that bug, and it lasted literally 12 hours, so while I officially got it, I think I was misdiagnosed.

So I ended up not sleeping in our bedroom for nearly a month. Sleeping on that Castro Convertible was like sleeping on a wood board, and I still feel it in my back.

Now, we don't have a third bedroom, so we have to sleep in the same bed.

And by the way, our son never got the coronavirus, and up to this point, he hasn't gotten sick from either of us this time around, thank goodness.

So it goes.

I have a busy week coming up. An early doctor's appointment on Monday--having nothing to do with our recent maladies--and our son has a job interview later in the day on Monday--

Later in the week, I have to cover a conference for work--

And who knows what will transpire with our son's job search?

So, I am going to take Monday off from this perch, be ready to go on Tuesday, and I should be OK for the rest of the week.

I have to rest up ... I can't pack into a day what I used to ...

But I am far from done.

Have a great weekend, and I will speak to you again on Tuesday.