Hope everybody is doing well, and with their loved ones (or family, at least). Things have been tough here for the past few days. I got the cold my wife had, and it hit me pretty hard, coming right at a valley in my physical biorhythm. Not only are my lungs filled with crap, but so is my head (more crap than usual – or at least different crap). Also got the whole cold but sweating thing going on. Really kinda sucks. The stuff I’ve been taking to keep me from coughing up a lung and to keep my nose from running has kept me kinda zonked out. I haven’t taken anything today, yet, so we’ll see how it goes. I don’t deal well with getting sick, so I generally don’t do it. Once in a while, though, I get nailed by something, and I guess this is one of those times. I hope this is it for the season.

At least I don’t have to feel bad about missing nice weather. Yesterday sucked. It never got above about 38 degrees, and a fog rolled in that made it bone-chillingly damp. I was actually outside with the dogs when it “rolled in.” I thought maybe getting some air would help – and the dogs needed to do more than watch me flop around in the chair. I was standing there when the fog just blew in – like that movie. What was it called? Oh, yeah, “The Fog.” All of the sudden this white mist just blew in from the west. It was kind of eerie. In fact, given my state of mind, I wasn’t quite sure if what I was seeing was real. I thought maybe it was lights out time or something.

Needless to say, I survived.

So, to keep from going totally stir crazy, I’ve been watching the first season of “24” – which I’d never seen. So far, it’s pretty good. It hadn’t turned into torture porn yet. Well, not by the good guys. So far, torture, cruelty, and nonchalant murder seems to be relegated to the bad guys.

How quaint.

Also caught up on some movies. I watched the end of “Inception.” I saw the middle part before, and have yet to see the very beginning. Interesting idea, though I think I’d have to actually sit through it from the beginning to figure out what’s going on. And not while medicated.

Saw the end of “It’s Kind of a Funny Story,” too, which is a good movie. Slightly corny ending, I suppose, but, hey, how else could you end it (I was thinking maybe finding Zach Galifianakis dead right at the end, but that’s just me).

Then I watched a pretty stupid movie (that I nevertheless found very enjoyable) with Bill Murray inheriting an elephant named Vera that he had to take across the country to Janeane Garafalo so she could fly to Sri Lanka and breed (Vera, not Janeane).

I’ve also been trying to manage my e-mail. Which means deleting shit. It appears that everyone I’ve ever purchased anything from (or even thought about purchasing anything from) wants my money, and is offering me some amazing “Black Friday” deals. Black Friday apparently being a 7-10 day period (or longer, in some cases) that has already begun. I don’t see any great deals, though. Not great enough to get me to buy anything. What I really want from Santa this year is some heat for my workshop so I can hang out there this winter and do manly things like drink coffee and whittle.

First, though, I need to frame up some walls to hold the heat in a little bit, plus insulate the block walls and frame up some walls around them, too. And the floor, so I’m not standing on cement that’s sucking the heat out of me. Not gonna happen this year, though.

Anyhow, I hope all is well with you and yours, and that you can be with those you care about today. If not in person, then at least in spirit. I don’t think I’m doing much of anything today, personally. I guess I’ll see who Detroit’s playing.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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