At home, sick. Turns out there is a 24-hour stomach bug going around and I seem to have caught it. Good news: I don't seem to be as sick as my co-workers who had it. Bad news: I lost the whole afternoon huddled under blankets (severe chills are one of the symptoms). It's really bad when I'm feeling too awful to knit or even read. Dozed through a re-run of "Murder She Wrote", tried unsuccessfully to write a soils exam. I'm feeling a bit better now, thanks to a glass of ginger ale (Vernor's, the best ginger ale in the world - unfortunately not available west of the Mississippi. I get my folks to bring me some every time they visit) and a cinnamon Pop-Tart (unhealthy, I know, buy you try getting an upset stomach to accept a salad)

Catching up on e-mail. So many people sent me nice birthday greetings. I can't thank all of them individually. I did find a neat new e-cards site (since Bluemountain has gone to mostly subscription). It's Prairie Frontier, which has nice wildflower greeting cards.