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Happy New Year, everybody!
I'm finally feeling well enough to crawl back to a keyboard after being sick for several days. It seems whatever bug was going around finally caught up with me. Everyone here at KSL has been dropping like flies with some malady or another. Flu, colds, you name it, we've got it. This place is one big petri-dish.
I've been trying everything to keep myself healthy. NyQuil, DayQuil, Alka Seltzer, echinacea, green tea, but nothing seems to work fast enough. Finally, after more than a week, I've got my appetite back.
Interestingly enough, I recently interviewed some elementary school teachers who have developed immunities to most germs that kids bring to school. They were laughing that the first few years of teaching, they'd catch everything. Then, as the years go by, they develop resistance to the germs kids bring in. Definitely something to think about...
