I spent much of last weekend and the first part of the week in much brain pain with what seems to have been a sinus infection.

I've been absent from the blogging. Apologies. Most of February, it seems. More apologies. It's been a busy time with work and school, icky weather, and not a lot of things worth writing about.

A week ago Thursday, I went to the office with a handful of my team. Some of them were rolling off to other assignments, and Thursdays are our "default" office visit day, so a  bunch of us gathered to bid adieu. After work, some of us found each other (gatherings aren't encouraged by the company) at a local pub and tipped one or two. A good time was had by all, it seemed.

By Friday afternoon, I started feeling a bit run down, and had a bit more congestion and headache than normal. Weather is going warm and not, humidity all over, and my weekly filter changing was about due. I also have more hours talking on Friday than the rest of the week, so it just seemed par. I unplugged at the end of the day, and zoned into television after fetching the kids.

On Saturday, I was ready to let the zombies win. My head was overflowing with snot. The pressure in my head and ick in my throat was clearly not normal. I changed and cleaned the air filter, but tried to do as little as possible.

We did run for COVID tests in the morning, and they came back negative in the evening. It was a bit early to think I might have been exposed on Thursday, really my only non-school run in the last few weeks, but good to know that my symptoms were likely not COVID.

Sunday I did even less, taking a long nap in the afternoon. Monday I begged off work and did even less, napping on the couch all day.

A week or so before, the wife moved her workspace from the back of the living room (after moving out of the shared office), into the antechamber (previously called "the nursery," and also working as the little-little's bedroom), after moving the little-little back into his room, after the intern moved to her second home for the school year. A lot of backtracking in one sentence. Way to go! So, since she's now working a pocket door away from the bed, it seemed weird to be sick there, and didn't feel like there'd be much rest opportunity.

By Tuesday, I still called out of work. I was starting to feel on the mend, with the headache dropping to about an 11-out-of-10, from it's former 15-out-of-10. With a little ibuprofen fighting my headache with me, I was feeling mostly normal by the end of the day. By the time I fetched the kids from school, it was a normal long day headache and attitude.

Wednesday was return-to-normal, for the most part, but the lingering congestion led to some throaty coughing in meetings where I had to talk. Still not 100%, but getting there fast.

A tough week, especially with the things I'm supposed to be getting done. It's "annual review" time, and I've got about 20 or so reviews to write! I've gotten a bunch started, but I don't have any finished. They're due in a week, so like lots of time...I wish.

We took our weekly COVID tests again. I'm back on the allowed list, and the general test pressure seems to be dying away with the waning of the latest wave. It came back negative, so it certainly wasn't that. Happy for that news. Not all sinus infections are the same, and many times I've hit up the doctor for a round of antibiotics. With COVID and just the amount of ick I got hit with, I wasn't up to it. Thankfully I seem to have survived.

There are other runny noses in the house, and mine is still, too. No one is really sick, though, except maybe of the long winter drain.

Everyone's healthy.