I don't like to moan, but...
…but I’m lying. Of course I like. It doesn’t make for good reading though, but anyway.
So today was the first day back at work for a couple weeks, and it wasn’t great. My head wasn’t in it at all. It was partly the weather: we’ve come home to what appears to be the only part of the country where the sun refuses to shine. At least we don’t have to worry about watering the tomatoes.
But it was also probably something to do with the after-effects of what was either noro- or rota-virus, whatever strain of stomach-flu that’s been ravaging the South Island this summer. There’s really no point describing what went on, except it struck both Rosa and I two days apart, enough to make sure that our last week of holiday as a family has been pretty quiet. Or as you might imagine, almost quiet.
So driving back from down south on Saturday would have been a lot better in different circumstances. We were in the car by 4:30am, the stars out in force for a clear day. Becky had found some handy pills (more scientific, and probably more effective, than a cork) so I was able to do most of my share of the driving. By 5:00pm we were at Picton, only to find that the ferry was delayed by an hour. But home we reached, in the end.
Yesterday was a wipeout.
And today. Well, despite having to work I suppose it was better. I actually ate three decent meals for the first time in a week. That’s a small victory.
Patrick
8 January 2008, 01:41 #
I’m back to work today as well, after 4 weeks out of the office (1 week in the Singapore office, 2 in Auckland, 1 off back here in London), and there’s no way I’m going any serious work done.
Some how I seem to have had half a dozen sysadmin tasks to do though… sigh. I can has more holidays please?
(Oh yeah… what happened to the stats?)
Alan
8 January 2008, 06:50 #
If by stats you mean the statutory holidays, then it depends where you were, as always. Some places were nice, I hear, and others were blah.
I really don’t like this “Wellington shrouded in low cloud” business while other places have sunshine and 30 degrees C though. That’s just not right. I mean it’s all too correct, it’s just Not Right.
Kowhai
8 January 2008, 21:46 #
I just like the fact you have an archive section called bygones ;-)
Stephen
9 January 2008, 08:33 #
There’s something about stomach pain that’s peculiarly debilitating, isn’t there? I’ve had what I consider severe pain in various places and borne it stoically, but stomach cramps and nausea make me feel like I’m going to die.
Alan
10 January 2008, 13:25 #
Luckily I wasn’t in pain (I’ve never had really bad pain ever, so I’ve not had to face that particular test), just very uncertain over controlling some basic bodily functions…
Mary
12 January 2008, 14:41 #
We were in the South Island over Christmas too.
Need I say more…….?