Hythia

So finally getting over a bout of strep throat. Some of the bastards I work with knew they were sick, but came to a meeting and coughed all over the rest of us at it and infected us all with their lousy germs.

Bit behind on work because of it, slept for pretty much all of the last few days. Not that I wouldn’t have been behind even if I had been healthy… Thinking I may have overbooked myself a little bit this quarter for work.

Birthday tomorrow. Approaching it with dread. 365 days after that until I turn thirty. I remember when I was a kid (well, more of a kid then I am now) that I had all these plans of things I wanted to do, places to see, etc. that I wanted to do before I turned thirty and had to start acting like an “adult”.

Still, turning 29 means I am several years older than quite a few people expected me to ever be. I think among my circle of friends from the olden-days the general consensus had been that sometime before I turned 25 I’d get mouthy to someone who would take offense enough at it to end me or hire someone else to end me. I was a bit more of a jack-ass back then.

Getting morbid now, thinking about how many of those friends I’ve already out-lived. Will likely become maudlin and drunk later as I try to figure out just what the hell I actually accomplished in this last year.

Tomorrow really is my third least favorite day of the year.

Blegh. Looks like it is going to be sunny too. Think I’ll spend the day in a nickel arcade I know, forty bucks should keep me pretty busy playing Gauntlet or something similar until the day is pretty well and over.