Pork Has Taken Its Quarter or Things Are Looking Up

I'm back. Not at full speed yet, but I'm not lying on the sofa or sitting in the chair cursing the day light whilst tossing back the Tylenol gel caps anymore (so grateful for the gel caps really). Sorry for the long lapse, I was really hit hard by the H1N1. Thank you to those who emailed or expressed concern in the comments section. Sorry to make you worry, I just couldn't handle the interwebs. I couldn't take in any information of any kind. So ill was I that I stopped reading. Yes. I stopped reading. That is very ill indeed for me. I also stopped eating - another sure sign that things are very wrong for me.

But since everyone in the fam was sick and we set up sick bay in the family room, a lot of television was watched or I slept through quite a bit of television. I would, however, wake up every once in awhile and watch a few episodes of Mythbusters. Apparently it takes something stronger than swine flu to diminish my keen interest and absolute delight in watching things explode. I never tire of watching things explode. I also stayed up late one night and watched Dan in Real Life (On TBS no less. I mean do they hold you hostage with all the commercials or what?) and got all weepy and sentimental and I certainly did not do that the first time I watched that movie. So famine and fever had definitely taken a toll.

Anyway, I'm back and thinking about end of the year things like writing about my favorite performances and shows. Not sure if I'll get around to those posts before or during January, but that's one of the topics occupying my mind. Of course, I have to write about DFW again. One thing I did read before I got the flu was Broom of the System. I can only say this about Broom - it was easier to read IJ twice than it was to read Broom once. I ended up liking it, but it wouldn't be at the top of my list of favorite things written by big Dave.