The Pink Death can go away anytime now.

Yesterday, as noted, Kiri had to schlep me over to the doctor's for a state mandated office visit. That, and a few minutes spent dropping of the form at the Sixth Circle of Hell medical secretaries' office was the extent of my day out. At home, I did a few dishes.

Today, I'm completely wiped out. The aches are back, I woke up with a fever, and I'm coughing again. So I'm not doing anything today other than playing Civ IV and drinking fluids. The body hurt so bad that I had to take a vicodin.

Folks, get your flu shots. This thing sucks as bad as any medical problem I've had since pneumonia.

I'm now going to do something I really don't like to do. I'm passing the hat.

While we will get a disability payment for this time, it won't show up for several weeks. In the meantime, we're running on the ragged edge. kshandra put up a post with a PayPal link in her journal. If you can help, thanks.

My best game yet!

Civ IV geek details: Fractal map, standard size world, temperate climate, standard sea level, Chieftain difficulty. I was playing the Indian Empire under Asoka. As it turned out the map generated with two largish continents. I shared my continent with the English (Victoria), the Spanish (Isabella), and the Russians (Peter the Great). The other continent had France (Louis XIV), Greece (Alexander), and the Mongolians (Genghis Kahn).

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