7 Sep 2008 - Squirrel Warming (T-144d / 44d!)

I don't know what I got into but it sure put me out of commission! I started to feel a bit "sneezey" around Wednesday night. Thursday morning I awoke to full blown runny nose and a sore throat. I held it all at bay for a while with the trusty nose washing thingy. (Yeah, I know to much info, but it works and I still recommend it.) I spent the day finishing up my torments of Robbie and his folks at work. (We did a "practice" inspection on them. You know, it's a lot like doing a "practice" proctology exam. LOL) I was sure it was just some allergies that had a hold of me but just in case I tried to stay away from most folks at work. They were all leaving for a long flight to Japan and if I got them sick they'd lynch me for sure. A lynching is probably what is in store for me. Thursday night, after work, I started to run a pretty high fever and I was down for the count. All that CO2 the squirrel puts out finally built up... 103 and rising baby! I was delirious. Connie dragged me to the bathtub at one point to pour cold water over me. I slept fitfully the rest of the night but come morning, I was unable to shed my addiction to fossil fuels and my temperature remained above 101. Connie called in sick for me, I barely remember it, and I remember calls from my superintendent, but the rest is a fog. I finally recovered, having exhausted my fuel stores, and emerged from my virus infected covers around 2 pm. Connie regaled me with tales of my delirium. Apparently I blamed it not on the natural warming of a sick squirrel, but instead, was insisting that the fault lie in silly putty. Seems I repeatedly clamed my silly putty had gotten too stretched and it had broken, and therefore it was the cause of my sickness. Wow, what a ride that was. By 7 pm I was tired again and I went down for the night. Nothing like a good 20 total hours of sleep to put a squirrel right. My tail is fluffy and my eyes are bright again.

I sure hope my co-workers aren't causing the flight attendants angst by claiming they have silly putty issues at 38,000 feet over the Pacific! If so, my bad. Problem solved in 44d!