No, in fact, I am not dead

No, I have not died or fallen off the Earth, nor has WoW eaten me (for those of you who I know were thinking that). It has just been a crazy few weeks and it’s not looking like it’s going to settle down for at least another week or so.

To kick things off as only I can, I got the respiratory infection from hell about three weeks ago and it really kicked my ass. It started out as a scratchy throat and some nasal congestion, then quickly progressed to hacking up great green gobs of God only knows what in the morning. I let it go for about a week thinking it might be allergies (the pollen count in my part of the world was like 400% higher than it usually is at that time of year), but when it only became worse I got me so antibiotical love.

I didn’t start to feel relief from the antibiotic until about two days before my run was over, then I was just exhausted. I missed fencing for a week and a half during this whole period (and that’s not counting the nights I went to fencing sicker than a dog and just coached and didn’t play). I did finally recover, though (I fenced last Friday and had a great night, considering I’d not fenced for over two weeks), just in time to go on-call at work.

On-call wasn’t so bad, just busy: focusing on learning all the routines, lots of conference calls, watching systems, watching the helpdesk, and running for my Blackberry every time it went off. I learned a great deal this first time on-call, and I feel like I’m ready to do when it comes up again next week (yes, right back on-call … I switched with one of the other guys so he could make a wedding and I could hopefully make a trip to Orlando, Florida in the middle of the month - more on that later). Thankfully, after next week, I won’t be on-call again for a little over a month and going forward it will be every four weeks. Still, it was more stuff that kept me busy and off the radar.

Having the time off from posting here (unintentional as it may have been) has given me some time to think about this space. I am reassessing what I want to do here. I have a lot of interests and I’m trying to decide if they all belong here or if they need their own voices; should I have a ‘journal‘ and then a places for each of my hobbies, or just do it all in one place? I don’t have a lot of free time, as mentioned above, so I don’t have a lot of time to devote to thinking about it. I need to figure something out, though, because the quandary is making me loathe to write at all. Rest assured, though (for those few who care), the posts will continue. They just may be slow for the next few.

Now, stop sending my mom flowers. It freaks her out.