Shortly after writing my last blog post, I came down with something. I thought it was food poisoning. I skipped lunch so that I could wrap up all my work. I wanted to finish ASAP so I could take off the rest of the week for my grandfather’s funeral and Christmas.

While in the break room to get a coffee refill, I see a tray of cheese cubes left over from an earlier meeting. Hungry, I put a few in a paper cup and headed back to my office.

Ten minutes later, I felt sick to my stomach. I left work early to go home and passed out on my couch. My grandfather’s wake was late in the evening, and it didn’t look as though I was going to feel well enough to make it.

Of course, this flu bug or whatever it was didn’t know who it was messing with. There was no way I was going to miss this wake.

So, in short, instead of being sick I decided to be awesome instead.

True story.