Wasting
I missed a lot of school as a little third-grade person. I don’t remember being sick, or really enjoying being home… but I know I didn’t enjoy doing the make up work.
I missed a lot of school as a little third-grade person. I don’t remember being sick, or really enjoying being home… but I know I didn’t enjoy doing the make up work.
It was kindergarten for me. I got both the measles and the chicken pox that year. I was lucky, though; maybe a couple dozen sores each time, and only a mild fever. I was sick and contagious, but it was still pretty nice, staying at home. (And no homework in Kindergarten!) I then skated through grades 1-8, picking up fewer than 10 total sick days.
Now when my heart got hit with a nasty virus about ten years ago and I ended up with two hospital visits and an ICD in my chest for the rest of my life… THAT was a bummer.
Wow, glad to be back. Such a timely comic.
Saturday morning the laptop would not shut off. I tried powering it off and on and got a “blue screen error” where the computer then tried to fix itself. So scary to see the laptop run through a long list of files it is not happy with and is deleting when all you can do is watch. So it restarts itself and promptly goes into “black screen error” mode where it says that its config-sys file is either corrupted or missing and that is that. The hp went to pc people Saturday for resurrection and came back Monday afternoon. Works great now, thanks Wells Fargo credit card, only Monday night a transformer blew in the neighborhood and everything went black. Oh and speaking of blackness (does misery come in threes?) the shower stall got clogged Friday. Drain cleaners (mine and a helping neighbor’s) and furious plunging made for a huge pool of black, muddy, sudsy, foamy water with noxious fumes that brought tears to your eyes. I rented a rotor-rooter snake from Home Depot. Even went up on the roof with it to clean out the pipes from the roof vent. Had no luck. It was also fixed Monday. Yikes, plumbers not only charge $99 an hour for labor, but also $99 an hour for travel time to your place…c’mon! Oh and use of their snakes counts as parts costs…jeez.
As for Randie… She’s creative and ought to take a mental holiday. Fiji?
Pete…whoa! Measles AND Chicken Pox?!!! Dang… that was some hard-core down time! I didn’t get Chicken Pox until I was 15… It was ugly. But I think it was more fun to loaf around at 15 than it would be as a Kinder-person. I could be wrong.
stick… severe condolences… and yes, these things come in threes… so the good news is… you’re done. But that is an impressive list of bummers. I sympathize with the computer issues… I know what it’s like to have a flat-lined ‘outer… especially when you count on it heavily! Hopefully all is well in your camp for now on… until the next set of threes hits. Keep smiling.
It’s a lot like having “days off” as a freelancer: you waste your free time worried about the fact that you have no work.
I was brought up with the belief that a cold was insufficient reason for missing school or work, so I had to go to school feeling miserable and grossing everyone out. Now that I’m an adult and have a job whose benefits include vacation, when I get a cold, I do take a day off when it’s reaching its apex. Course now that I’m older, I get colds less frequently (maybe I’ve had most of them!) and they knock me for more of a loop.
Huh, I had chickenpox at 10 and thought that was late. Quoting Klinger from M*A*S*H: “If you get ’em as a kid, you don’t get ’em as an adult, but if you get ’em as an adult, you don’t get kids.”
Dada… FREE lancer… ya work for free.
uwg… yah… I was pretty horrible lookin’… I had to go see the doc and I was appalled at how good-looking he was and how awful I looked.
I had chicken pox twice! The second time I was 25! How embarrassing!! If I catch a cold, I have learned to take two days off from work. If I only take one, I am guaranteed a relapse. Tell Randie to relax and get well.
@Stick: *ugh* Those are days that are best forgotten. Sorry about the difficulties.