I enjoyed my trip to San Francisco. Not as much as I’d hoped I would, because during my last days there (the days I’d hope to get some sightseeing in) I started to come down with a bit of a cold. Mercifully, I had plenty of friends around who were also worn out from the MacWorld Expo to hang out with, so I wasn’t just stuck hanging around the hotel.

However the cold flared up into a lovely cough and fever just in time for the flight home. I apologize to all on board the flight from SF to Chicago, and the Chicago to Portland, ME flight for any illnesses contracted by being in a confined space with me that day. The next week was rough as this illness kept me down to just collapsing at home when I wasn’t at work.

I’m still trying to get over one lingering symptom, a bit of congestion in my chest. I have innovated a good therapy that helps clear things up: singing at the top of my lungs. However, it has resulted in some of the worst music ever. The congestion creates the interesting side effect of my being unable to hold a note. I end up wandering higher and lower in a range of plus or minus a half an octave uncontrollably.

Now, no one has heard this except myself and my cats, I’m glad no one is recording it, but I have received some stern warnings from the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

And in looking at the Your Mac Life forums, it seems that a lot of people who went to the Macworld Expo got sick afterwards. Looks like Mac users are susceptible to viruses after all!