Sometime in May 2010

So yesterday I was feeling a cold coming on. You know the feeling - it starts where you know that something just isn't right and then suddenly you feel weak. The soreness starts in and then you can feel your sinuses start to fill up. After texting my wife to ask her if she could bring home some vegetable soup, Cold-Eez, and some OJ (pulp free), I started my latest "I have a cold" oddysey.

I crashed sometime last night around 7:30 pm and woke up around 11:00 am this morning. That's quite a nap, to be sure. I couldn't breathe and couldn't eat. That was on top of the general malaise I was feeling. Since I really couldn't do much, I did a little bit of paperwork and then played "The Godfather" on my XBox 360. It was the first game I bought in 2006 when I got my 360, but I never finished. With there being a dearth of games that catch my eye, I decided to finish this one. I think my next game will be "Splinter Cell: Conviction", but we'll see.

I took another 4 hour nap from about 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. I didn't really enjoy sleeping my day away, but my body just seemed beat. My appetite started to return around 9:30 pm when I ate 2 English Muffins and still felt hungry (definitely a good sign). I just wish I felt sleepy now.

I don't know why I decided to start reading "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. I'm a little less than 30% through it right now. While a lot has happened so far, I'm still struggling to find a message in the book. Perhaps I need to digest the whole thing and consider the context, but it is definitely a tortuous read. Right now our 2 captains of industry are knee deep in an extra-marital affair, trying to find the engineer who seems to have designed an impossible motor, and are in the midst of a new socialist crackdown on business in the United States. I'm hoping the reading goes faster soon as there are other books I would like to get to one of these days.

Well, that's it for the first entry. I'm not promising an everyday blog here, but I will do my best to keep with timely updates. Have a good night, everyone.