Light blogging today -- am stuck at home with the same creeping crud everybody seems to be getting around here. What's more, all three kids are sick, and so is Julie. Happily, though, the misery didn't strike until yesterday morning, after we'd disposed of all the wine and beef from the birthday dinner.
Heard a funny line from my DC friend who came in for the dinner. He was talking about how he is looking at buying a small place out in or near the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. "Everybody knows DC's gonna be dirty-bombed," he said. "So it'd be smart to have a place to go." I don't think he was joking.
My pal, who works in television, also introduced me to a new word: "trend-humping," a term used to describe the unthinking and instinctive frenzy to exploit a rising social trend in one's coverage. Well, the trend around the Dreher house today is: mucus, and lots of it. Send Theraflu, won't you?
It's all about the crud
Monday February 12, 2007
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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He wasn't kidding. In fact, Winchester, VA is using its location "outside the blastzone" to attract real estate development. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/25/AR2006122500637.html
If it IS the flu (requires nasal swab test), they can prescribe Tamaflu. This stuff seems to work quite well. I write this from my work -- I didn't expect to recover well enough for a couple of more days! So, if you have significant fever, go get a test and prescription. If not, it's the crud.
That's great in DC or out west where there's outlying places to develop, but what about New York and Boston where everything is tight in? Of course, then there's Dallas where it's so spread out everything is out of the blast zone. k.
Get well soon. And next year, consider getting the shots.
I'll glady trade you the flu for my toothache. It's nice living in a place like Wisconsin where nothing is worth wasting a bomb on.
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