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Lessons I Learned While Sick

I recently had a pretty bad upper respiratory infection that knocked me out of normal commission for a few days. Here are some things I learned:

  1. There's a lot of junk online.
  2. There's a lot of good stuff online.
  3. It's easy to become one of those people on Facebook who hog your screen with  47 updates.
  4. It is true that you can have 120 channels and on demand and a dvr and still have nothing to watch on tv. Especially true for daytime television
  5. Coffee tastes horrible when you feel like crap but you better drink it anyway or you'll add a caffeine withdrawal headache to your woes.
  6. Sleep is underrated.
  7. When you feel like watermelons are growing in your throat it's hard to swallow.
  8. If you're prepared you will have non-expired medicines on hand and know where the thermometer is.
  9. You can make this sick thing your hobby but it would probably annoy the crap out of your friends and family.
  10. The work piles up when you don't work.
So here's to good health.  I'm finally there and I can get back to being human again and doing productive things. But I'm going to miss this online addiction.
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