This week in review

This past week has been very interesting, and not in a good way either.

First, last Monday I was out of commission with the flu. I still feel sick, but well enough to work, so I’m at work typing this out on my lunch break. I’ll post it tonight after I get home. This was one of the worst bouts of flu I’ve had. Seems like I get it worse each year. I was out of work from Monday to Thursday. I went in on Friday, but in retrospect I probably should have stayed home.

Second, a co-worker and his wife were brutally murdered last week while I was out sick. I heard about it when someone from work called to let me know. He was one of the nicest people I’ve had the pleasure of meeting, and I’m still sad and angry about it. He and his wife were last seen alive on Sunday, and a neighbor found them Tuesday evening after a relative couldn’t get them on the phone and asked the neighbor to check on them.

Third, Morgan got my flu on Friday evening and was out of commission for the weekend. Ash was a trooper and went to Wal-Mart for the grocieries by herself. We usually go together because she doesn’t like going on her own and doesn’t trust me to go on my own (I always get the wrong brands).

I am back, though, and able to write again. I’m still sick to my stomach, but that is a good thing because I’m eating less.

Fourth, I became addicted to an online roleplaying game called Neverwinter Nights. I like it and I don’t think it’s as bad as Ash says, but I’m not really an objective party here, so I’ll trust her judgement.

Finally, one of the good things that happened this week. I found out my uncle from England is coming to the US for a visit. He’ll be visiting my mother early next month, and I’ll have a chance to go down and see him for the month that he is in town. That should be nice. I only hope I actually have a chance to go. I haven’t see him for years, since I was last in England in high school.