Abandonment

My time for blogging here on Blogger has come to a sudden end. This is by choice and not because I dislike Blogger. I've launched my own web site and am able to host my own blog and have complete control over it.

The new site is called Stand Like a Man (www.standlikeaman.com) and it's hosted with plenty of room to upload photos, files, and what-have-you. Right now it's just a lame entry page with one picture on it, but we'll eventually have a fun site.

I've created an area for both Quinn and myself to host our own sub-sites (including blogs). So far I've gotten as far as importing the contents of this blog (minus this post) to my own blog space and tweak the theme/widgets/plugins. Quinn will have to decide what he wants to do with his piece of the site.

Anyhow, my blog can now be found at:

http://www.standlikeaman.com/gabe

Pretty simple, eh? Be sure to update your bookmarks/favorites/RSS feeds!

This entry is moving on to stranger things!

I've got the fever...

... okay, more like I've got A fever.

I ended up leaving work early yesterday because I was starting to feel feverish and achy; the typical signs of a flu. I went straight home and started resting.

This morning I woke up feeling hotter -- the thermometer verified this to be true -- so I called in sick and decided to sweat it out. This is a tactic I've used to fight fever since I was a teenager: If my fever is 101° or lower, I'll try bundling up in multiple blankets and sweating it out. If it's higher, I'll try Tylenol or Advil (or their generic equivalent) and/or a cold shower to bring it down, then try to sweat it out. I've never put much thought into it, since I only continue to do it because it has worked so well in the past.

Christine gave me a call to check on how I was feeling and I told her about my methods. It struck me as odd that I had never really investigated the reasons for a fever and why the body does what it does, so I decided to look it up. I now share this knowledge with you:

Fever - Wikipedia
A kid's guide to fever
Fever - How Stuff Works

Seems as though the reasoning and logic behind my fever-fighting methods are pretty good!

This entry is feeling much better now.