Everyone in my household is just dragging, trying to deal with this cold/flu/sinus infection/whatever it is. We’re congested, coughing, exhausted but can’t sleep, fever, headache… in short, we all feel like crap. So on the advice of a friend, we went to Whole Foods to get some echinacea and vitamin C.

I found it hilarious that the store chock full of vegan, “cruelty-free,”  organic products and more than a few Birkenstock and BDS tee shirt clad shoppers had a completely empty bike rack and a parking lot full of new SUVs and oversized sedans.  But the absolute best part was when Ms. All-Natural left the store with her toddler and a cart full of health food.  She immediately released the toddler into a busy parking lot so she’d have both hands free to light up her cigarette.

You know you should have stayed home from work when you accidentally delete a client’s website from the server.  Luckily it’s was a relatively easy fix – the site was “flat,” (html/css) not database driven, and the one email account on the site was forwarded to the client’s home email.  So all I had to do was recreate the account and upload it again.  But that could have been catastrophic if it had been a client with a more complex site.

The problem is I can’t “stay home” from work – I work from a home office and no matter how sick I am I tend to just wander in here to do “just one thing” and end up staying half the day when I should be in bed.  I have a bad cold or the flu, and a fever.  So having recovered from this monumental screwup, I’m going to quit while I’m ahead.  It’s as good a time as any to thank God for capitalism and the freedom to work as I please, and go curl up under several blankets with a very battered copy of Atlas Shrugged.