Everyone other than myself in my immediate family has been struck with a mysterious 12 hour stomach flu that was intense and quite, well, productive in it’s efforts. That was until this morning when I took my turn on the roller coaster of microbial love.

As it turns out, I received the most personal email in a single day today than I think I ever had, and as a consequence of what’s surely an uncaring and impolite virus, I probably will be quite slow in responding to any of them.