www.Straydog.org UPDATE posted WEDNESDAY 11/12/03 at ~9:47 p.m. CT

Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog Log

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12 2003

I thought I was almost better, but I'm not

     Last night was the first night since last Wednesday (when I first came down with this ultra-unpleasant disease--the flu) that I was able to sleep (somewhat) in a lying-down position. The only sleep I've been getting has been sitting up in a chair leaning forward with my head on a pillow on my desk, and that would give me only short spurts of 20 or 30 minutes at a time before a coughing spell would wake me. (Cough medicines did nothing for me.)

Feverish dreams tell me I have to rescue 75 more dogs in order to sleep

     Also my feverish dreams almost made me afraid to sleep at all: In order to get even a short period of sleep my dream would tell me that I had to rescue 75 more dogs. Once coming back from the bathroom in the middle of the night, I was dreading even trying to go back to sleep, because I knew I'd have to rescue yet another 75 dogs. Even though my rational brain told me this couldn't be true or there'd be hundreds of new dogs already crowded in my room, it was still as if I'd have to rescue another 75 if I wanted to go back to sleep.

     Early this morning I was finally able to go to sleep lying flat in bed (and luckily my feverish brain made no dog rescue stipulations on sleeping in bed).

Technical problems updating homepage

     Today I felt pretty good, and my fever was just a little above normal, so this afternoon I told Erin I would do the update tonight. I had Erin shoot several photos of Michael and the crew putting dog door fronts on the shelters, and (unbelievably) that floppy disk full of photos turned out to be corrupt, so no pictures tonight. Then as I'm reworking the homepage file, getting it ready for tonight's update, somehow the entire contents of the homepage disappeared (which has happened once before recently), so I had to bring yesterday's homepage back over from the website and start all over on it.

     It's after 9:30 p.m. now, and this is all the further I've gotten, but I can do no more tonight. I think I'm going to be able to sleep, thank God!