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                               Back from the Dead
                                        
Hi.

I'm back among the land of the living, having finally kicked the cold,
although it wasn't a plesant experience, let me tell you. Once I felt the
cold settling in my lungs, I knew that if I didn't do something, the term
“antibiotics” would soon be bandied about, along with “emergency room,”
“deductable” and “bend over, this won't hurt at all.”

Yes, it was cough syrup time [1].

My hand written notes during Saturday (or was it Friday night?) are a bit
tough to make out, but let's see …

> “If you drink without rythm, you won't attract the worm.”
> 
> I feel like a cross between Hunter S. Thompson and Christopher Walken.
> 

And it devolves from there, amid a margin filled with bizarre doodles. I'm
thinking the bit about the worm was related to this video [2]. At least, I
hope it was related to that video because the very idea of a mashup between
Dune [3], Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [4] and Brainstorm [5] is too
frightening to consider.

After I admitted to Spring [6] that I felt like Carlos Castaneda [7] she
suggested I seriously cut back on the cough syrup.

By late Sunday I was feeling much better.

But my blogging software [8] wasn't [9] …

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/11/28.1
[2] http://youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs
[3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182/
[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120669/
[5] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/
[6] http://www.springdew.com/
[7] http://peyote.com/carlos-castaneda/
[8] https://boston.conman.org/about/
[9] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/08/27.2

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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