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    Finding comfort in sickness

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    For the past two weeks, I have been fighting a nasty creeping crud.  It started out as a horrible cough, raging headache, and sinuses that drained so frequently I wanted to remove my nose.  It mutated into bronchitis, sinus infection and ear infection.  In short, I felt like shit.  I don’t like being sick (who does right?) and until recently I had always been blessed with a very resilient immune system.  When I got sick in the past, typically a couple of days and I was back on track.  This time though, it just kept hanging on.  I recently left my job of 14 years and as fate would have it, I was sick the last week of my old job and the first week of my new.  I actually missed two days of work during my last week at the former employer.  I’ve been to the doctor twice in the past two weeks with two scripts for antibiotics that increase in strength each visit.  What I’m trying to say here is that I had one nasty bug and it held on for a long time.

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    This season, celebrate reason

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    I recently read an article about a billboard that atheist.org had put up in New Jersey and the resulting firestorm of opinions surrounding it.  In case you’ve missed it, here’s what they erected:

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