The term I remember about things like sinus infections is “self-limiting” which means they either get better or you die, and then you won’t care if you have a sinus infection. But really, my nose is fairly clear, my snot isn’t green or bloody, and most of my problems are from the neck down (not including the nuttiness that’s housed in my skull, of course.) I still have a cough and yesterday I had a sore throat. How’s that a sinus infection?

I got up this morning feeling pretty tired and it wasn’t getting better as the morning progressed. I decided to call it another sick day and thought I’d take a quick nap. 7AM – 12AM isn’t what I’d call a quick nap. After I got up I had some more time to install stuff on my sister’s computer. I think I found out the original problem was her programs were too old. Weird, huh? Things change in the OS level and Microsoft made some incompatible change in their latest update. Nice of them. We didn’t have to spend the $55 and two days to do all the stuff we did, but whatever.

So tomorrow it’s back to work. A couple of days ago I was helping one of the project leads, a guy with a Masters degree in Computer Science, with a programming problem he had. As an ex-lab-tutor, I know the sorts of problems they get in 100-level (i.e. college freshman) programming courses and this guy had no clue what he was doing. He couldn’t even do simple binary math. And I can’t get a programming job. There’s something seriously wrong with this picture.