I was already headachy and sinus-clogged, but put in the requisite phone calls and sent and received the requisite e-mails. I had to reboot the system at least once because I pulled up Outlook and half the letters were gone. It was the craziest thing; bits of the screen were just gone. All the other applications looked fine!

This was apparently a sign that something was going wrong because, since the system logs you off after fifteen minutes of activity, I logged off at lunch time. Instead of eating I took three ibuprofin and crawled under a fleece blanket for the duration, then awoke to the nagging of the alarm clock. I tried to log back in.

In fact I tried every five minutes for the next 90 minutes. When I finally did get in, there was an e-mail saying the intranet had been down. No kidding! :-) We usually lose the mail server at the office four to five times a day for several minutes at the time, but this has been the longest crash in a while.

At 4:30, just as I was sending an e-mail attachment to a potential vendor, my internet connection kicked me off. So I remained working until six instead of 5:30 to make up for the interruption.

So I'm feeling rather cheated out of the time I had to work—and the ibuprofin is wearing off with a vengeance. Dammit, I was so happy that I hadn't had a cold since we moved and then Tuesday afternoon this thing moved in. If I end up with an infection, what the heck is Kaiser going to prescribe for me? I've had reactions to the last three medicines they've prescribed for my "lower respiratory infection."

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