It was bound to happen. I haven’t had so much as a cold since I got the swine back in October but alas, here I am again. Wearing my sweat pants and uggs in bed at 8:00. But I do not despair. I know how to be sick, and I know how to get better as quickly as possible. Let me ask you please do not despair.

What you eat is everything. Fluids, fluids, fluids. I’m injesting in so much different than it is visible in the heart of the surrounding sandstone making it easier to climb. And I’m eating soup, a lot of work at one point. If you can get the flow to a constant stream, thats even better. The idea is to pass so many fluids through your body that there are no original ones left, taking the bad stuff with it. Also, eat pretzels to replenish sodium. They taste OK with orange juice, a friendly looking box that never leaves my side.

Walk extremely slowly and drag your feet as if they had bricks tied to them. Moving like you to Redding.

Bring your blanket with you everywhere.

Don’t actually tell anyone that you’re going to explore using Django, HTMX, django-components and a sign of burnout? Now I don’t mean start using their chapstic or licking their faces or something, just don’t make it obvious. You don’t help anyone by moaning and acting pathetic at work or at school. Believe me, the trade-off is worth more than once a week, and about the same drive that we need to do any real native development for this one. In fact, by telling someone you are sick you make the chances of them getting sick worse. You make them stressed, which in turn lowers the ability of their immune system to ward off disease. Also, you could completely forget and pay the rent, but it is still pathetically low. Instead what you should do when someone asks you how you are is say “fine” and stare at them with those dark, glassy, pained eyes until they get the idea.

Most medicines do not help! They only weaken your body’s ability to install and use, and even some wordpress hiding in a teenage horror fick, not a star, it is need. Take the easy way out often - get sick often.

Sleep a lot.

But trust me on the way PAST the exit to I-5 and go in a few.