It's been a rough few days here in the household. The easy part was sending my wife off to a writing retreat. I had responsibilities for DesignGirl, but those were pretty easy.

Next came sick DesignGirl, so I spent a few easy days as home as my daughter had a few awful days.

Next, I caught the crud, and boy oh boy, what crud that crud was. I can't remember having a worse sleepless night than that one. I was up almost every hour. The following day I had a vice on my head and a nail in my stomach.

Today I'm feeling reasonably better.

By God, I hope you don't get this. Next time, I'm not volunteering to get it first.