...was about the only noise I made last week.

About a week and a half ago, I felt something NASTY coming on. Don't you just hate when you're RIGHT about those feelings?

Basically, there's some crud going around the PacNW, with very Anthrax-like symptoms (yes, I got checked, and no, I don't have it) that wiped me out. Everybody else recovered from it in a day, but lucky me, my immune system has been wiped out by a combination of lack of exercise and sleep, 40 hour work weeks, and full-time college-level class loads, in addition to almost no extracurricular activities for the past two years. Basically, it took a week-long vacation for some fun in the sun while I laid in bed and moaned about the pink zebras dancing on my forehead. Oh, and pissed chicken soup and herbal tea.

Dr. said it was just a flu.

Sorry about dropping out of sight, I'll be back on the chess games either today or tomorrow depending on how things go. I'll probably miss some of the older conversations, so if something was demanding a response from me, fire it up again.

Thanks.