Today, Monday, is my first day back to work in a week. I missed all last week due to illness, either mine or someone else's. For the first couple days of the week, Beth was too sick to take care of the kids so I stayed home, then I got it and felt lousy myself for a few days. During the weekend Alex caught it. He woke up crying a couple nights with a high fever, to the point he felt like he was just burning up. Beth almost panicked one night after she took his temperature and it said 104.5. I made her take it again real quick and it said 103, better but still one sick kid. We cooled him off as best we could with a cool washcloth, which seemed to help a lot. Altogether this family has been in to see the doctor a lot lately.
The other day I bought a "new" laptop computer on ebay. An old Compaq, might have been state of the art in 1995. Including shipping, I paid $201 for it. It's about the same size and speed as the old desktop, so the plan is to transfer the software and get the big honkin desktop out of the kitchen.