Anti-Virus Needed

As an information technology security professional, I take viruses very seriously. I use the latest Anti-virus products, I keep my virus fingerprints up-to-date, and, of course, I use Firefox in order to prevent websites from sending me malicious content unbeknownst to me. So, you can imagine how frustrated I was when I got a virus on Sunday or Monday. At first, I thought I was just dehydrated after a night out at Lake Tahoe following a day of skiing, but from what I've read, it sounds like I was experiencing the first symptons of the virus. Headache, neckache, sore joints, light-headed, cough, sore-throat etc. I'm sure that my red-eye flight home on Sunday night didn't help things, and neither did sitting in an air-conditioned data center all day Monday. Things started going downhill on Monday night, when I came home and had the chills, unable to get myself warm, despite hot-boxing my tiny bathroom with steam from a super-hot shower.

Tuesday morning, I woke up with a throat that was on fire. I took a shower and nearly passed out, so I crawled back into bed and sent out the emails saying I wasn't going to make it into work today. This was even after getting 14 hours of sleep that night! So, for the first time in my career, I took a sick day. I went to the doctor, who said he thinks it's just a virus and I have to just wait it out. Great. Today I woke up with the same symptons, so I'm gonna go ahead and holler sick for this one as well.

I'm powering down vitamin C pills, multi-vitamin pills, water, and throat tea. Hopefully this will help clean my body and restore my self-respect for my skills as a security specialist....

J. Riley, cough-cough.

P.S. Congrats to my brother and sister-in-law for their pregnancy!! (unofficially)