Bleah.

Started feeling icky yesterday. Chills, digestive tract issues. Last night, I woke up at 0230 feeling completely awful and never really got back to sleep. At 0600 I called in sick.

I foresee several hot showers today.

But in better news

Pitchers and Catchers Report!!!

GIANTS With roster firmly set, goal is to stay healthy

Scottsdale , Ariz. -- The Giants' pitchers and catchers who report to spring training today will discover a remodeled Scottsdale Stadium, a new weight room, new on-site practice fields and a manager who wants his team to start clicking now.

As usual, the only real jobs up for grabs with the Giants are for peanut vendors and beer hawkers at 24 Willie Mays Plaza. The 25 gents in baseball uniforms are pretty well set, and the best a youngster can hope for is to make a grand impression, as reliever Scott Munter did last spring, and wait for a call later.

Manager Felipe Alou's main interest is seeing his core players prepare in the Valley of the Sun without the discordant sound of hamstrings popping and a sea of MRI exams floating about the building.

"I don't believe this is a spring to see other guys," Alou said. "This is serious business. I'm speaking for myself, but I feel I'm speaking for a lot of other people. We are two seasons since making the playoffs. We had a bad season last year. Any way you look at it, we were a long ways from being a good team."

There are some pluses for the Giants this spring, starting with Barry Bonds, who presumably will make his annual grand entrance to camp without the aid of crutches. Also, the team is not integrating three new starting position players as it did last year.

Baseball is back. Yayyyyyyy!!!!!!!

GO GIANTS!!!!

Well, this explains why I'm home sick.

( Human Virus Scanner )

Bad science!

Got the first disk of Season 1 for Battlestar Galactica today. And the second episode hangs its entire plot on Bad Astronomy.

The episode is entitled Water. The main plot concerns the hunt for a water source after planted bombs rupture half the Galactica's water tanks. Along with this we get more paranoia and Valerii acting more Cylon-like with each passing moment.

The problem? Space is filled with water! Our solar system has mountains of the stuff, thousands if not millions of them, wandering around out past the main belt. Looking into deep space we see that hydrogen and oxygen are common, so it makes sense that in any system you'll find at least a few Kuiper Belt Objects large enough to supply the entire fleet for years.

Grumble.

Of course, if i was a Cyclon agent looking to cripple the fleet and set humanity up for the final blow, I'd set bombs on the Galactica's FTL drive.