Cough, cough, splutter, splutter

That pretty much sums up my long weekend. I’ve had a cold since the middle of the week (so has my daughter … who I blame for mine, and son) and over the weekend I was coughing and spluttering most of the time. Makes it hard to do much, and especially hard to sleep properly, so I’ve been getting by on 3-4 hours a night lately.

Saw “Zodiac” at the movies on Saturday though (managed not to cough too much, though it wouldn’t have mattered much because there were only 4 people apart from us there - unlike the Shrek 3 lines which were out the doors). Very interesting movie, based on a true story (which I had never heard of before) about a serial murderer in California in the late 60’s. The story is intriguing enough to motivate me to read about the case some more.

Would have liked to go to the football on Saturday night, but cough, cough, splutter, splutter, sit in nice warm lounge and watch on TV vs sit at Canberra Stadium on a cold Saturday night was a no brainer. Would have been a good game to see, the mighty Canberra Raiders beat Parramatta 38-10.

Took advantage of the cheap Monday lunches at one of the local clubs today - always good for a steak or schnitzel, usually a beer or two, but today I didn’t think that would go well with all the cough medicine and lollies I’d been drinking and sucking on.

To add to the joy of my weekend, I went to log onto my work’s network yesterday to do a few things to pass the time, and found that the configuration file that enables the connection software to connect up to work had shat itself sometime since I had last used it on Friday. So, ring the help desk, solution - have to go to the office and reinstall the software, this because I needed to be on the work network and because the connection software was what I needed to download (circular problem here). Now I hardly ever go to my office, seeing I work at home most days, so this was a hassle (I mean its a whole 20 minutes drive …I know, nothing by most standards, but this is Canberra …). I did this today to get it out of the way - and to save time tomorrow when I know things will be busy at work.

Excitement plus? Cough, cough, splutter, splutter …going to bed now to try to sleep.