i thought i evaded the flu by suffering for the last week with merely a cold -- which was done and gone just today.  think again.  apparently i have an array of ailments queued and eager to express themselves in multi-textural, technicolor ways; a low procession of symptoms passing none too soon.  pass, pass...  please. 

i was feeling fine at noon, and by five i was starving.  so i cooked up <gag> a bunch of greasy sausage <retch> and eggs.  two bites and i was closely inspecting the condition of my toilet seat.  oohhhhuuukchffft, (wipes mouth).  sorry.  you know how that taste... oh, never mind. 

anyway, the turmoil seems to be, ...um, ...passing, so to speak (or at least on its way there).  you know, it is amazing how certain urgencies can make us gladly put our fair faces in certain places where, once having seen it up close, we then think twice about putting our fair asses there. 

if the rapid progress of this storm through my alimentary canal is any guage of its duration, then i can predict i will be through this -- or it through me -- by morning.  and already i am tolerating a little cherry garcia.  i would faint if not for ben & jerry; this weak-trembling-ness sucks, and i think i'll be in bed by eleven. : that's at least six hours earlier than my usual bedtime, for about the last month anyway.  so maybe this is a good thing, to get me back on track.  (yeah, right.  like curing jet-lag with a crash.)

also, thanks to whoever returned via 'permalink'.  you alerted me to my sloppy url-coding.  for the first time, i'm using non-relative, (i.e.: "../../img/me_and_marcus_schenkenberg_in_bed.jpg") non-absolute (i.e.: "http://burgwinkel.com/img/me_and_marcus_schenkenberg_under_the_bed.jpg") url's in my image links, like this: "/img/me_and_the_bed_on_marcus_schenkenberg.jpg" -- no dots and no domain name -- soze i can move pages down to the blogchive directory without losing images.  and i have no eff'n idea why i'm explaining all this.  it would have been interesting to me once.  i guess that's why. 

or maybe i'm delerious...