esrosedotblog

COLDER

I awoke with a sniffy nose yesterday morning and by last night it was a full-bore snotter.

It is moving fast. So far, it seems to be mostly on one side; the left.

By this morning, the drips are slowing and the next phase seems to be starting up; the blocked half dry nose and fuzzy throat.

I don't get a lot of colds. This may be the first in a year. But, I forget the bad stuff and so it could be less time.

All those miles of travel introduced me to most of the 170 plus or minus viri that cause head colds. Now, I have the anti-bodies.

Every once in a while, a new little virus shows up that I have not met yet. Here it is.

Hello. Nice to see you. Thanks for the anti-bodies. Now move on please.

I will be OK. I am an activist. I take echinacea and I don't slow down a lot but I do sleep extra time.

I keep taking my Allegra™ which is really for allergies but works. I can feel it clutching in now. Any other antihistamine gives me peeing problems.

I try to stay away from others so I don't get any help with some other altered form of the same animal and so that I don't give it away to the next guy.

I keep a folded Bounty™ (an old client) paper towel in my pocket and just let the virus do what it needs to do; get through with its job here and move on.

I don't go through a lot of 'oh no, it is the holidays' angst.

Almost any day in my life has stuff I would rather not miss so I just go ahead and do most of it. Same thing now. A holiday is not necessarily a better time for me.

Often the contrary. There is no mail and my routine gets fucked up.

So a cold is not much of a disruption.

It might even be a convenient out to some things I would rather not do. But, the less said about that the better.

I don't want to lay my plans out too specifically. That dodge is already known and so it is better to use it sparingly.