New symptoms, creepy ones

Last night I had a fever, some coughing and a headache over my right eye. I got up this morning after a net of 12 hours asleep. I showered, shaved, did all the boring morning things. I figured "I feel better than i did yesterday. Let's go to work." Then I put on my clothes and they felt weird against my skin. I ignored it. Then I could smell gasoline on my gloves from pumping gas yesterday. I ignored it. Then I drove to work. No problems.

Then I got to my desk and the light from outside was blinding. I debated getting my sunglasses from the car. Then I walked downstairs to training. I had to stop midway because my clothes rubbing against my skin was driving me nuts. It felt like a hangover without the prior fun.

I got through the session but mostly by twitching. I headed back upstairs, where people were still gathered by the window in my cube pod to watch the men remove the giant evergreen that had fallen onto the next building during the wind storm this week. I could talk but I could no longer deal with any stimuli (especially skin, sight and smell). So I emailed my boss and a let some others know.

I'm back in bed. I am tired of being in this bed. I may sleep on the couch for a while. Oh wait, that's kinda scratchy. Now I know how these wuss kids feel -- sensory overload on a constant basis is overwhelming and you want to whine. I'm so used to blocking out whatever I want (and boy, can I) that it's just too much to lose that for a virus. Back to sleep for me.

-fluffy sheets, Dante

How can you tell I'm sick of being sick? Frequent LJ updates!

I have this luxurious bed as my prison. I'm tired of sleeping. I'd rather have visitors come over and talk to me. However, I'll simply pester everyone by phone instead because no one really wants this flu.

I get to play with two electronic devices today (other than this laptop and either of my phones... sheesh, I have a lot of communication devices). The first is my digital thermometer, which told me a few minutes ago that my temperature is 100.3F. Since I usually run 98.0F, this is enough to give me hope that the buggies are being killed by my body heating up.

The second toy just arrived from Hong Kong. A smuggled bride? No, a USB 2.0 to IDE cable! This thing lets you plug in a 2.5" hard drive (the kind you find in laptops) and power it straight off the USB port. It also has a normal IDE port on the opposite side of the dongle, so that I can plug in a normal desktop hard drive, CD-ROM drive, burner, DVD-ROM... you get the picture. You have to plug in an external power supply, but that came with the kit as well. Dude! This rocks -- I can get a drive set up for an older machine without having to shut off the bigger machine that will set it up. I can test drives for defenestration in seconds rather than minutes.

Okay, too much excitement. Back to sleep for me. The geek stirred but the energy wasn't there.

-klonk, Dante