{"id":1909,"date":"2009-10-23T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/23\/2009-10-23-maybe-we-should-just-bow-html\/"},"modified":"2009-10-23T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T03:32:00","slug":"2009-10-23-maybe-we-should-just-bow-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/2009-10-23-maybe-we-should-just-bow-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe We Should Just Bow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friends,<\/p>\n

Assorted live versions of influenza virii still inhabit the \u201cspray\u201d emitted from the pie holes of passers-by here at work, so at the moment of this writing, I’m hiding in my office. I can’t begin to tell you how thrilled I am about this, so I’ll start somewhere around the middle: since my asthma diagnosis prevented me from enjoying the inhaled version of the swine flu vaccine, I get to wait for the injectable version to arrive in a week or two. We have also not received the vaccine against the seasonal flu, putting me in a position uglier than an inside-out monkey**.<\/p>\n

I’ve always said that the I.T. tomfoolery I undertake daily is 90% customer relations, with only a tiny sliver of my time performing actual technical work, which is true enough. The customer service part is getting harder and harder though, as I spend more of my time asking people not to breathe on me. Or touch me. Or inquire about the last time a sanitizer was let loose upon their desk, keyboard, and the armrests on their chair.<\/p>\n

If you need any evidence of how poor a patient I can be, just look back to last weekend. I had injured my back last week and spent the entire weekend laying down on the couch complaining to the puppy dog about how much my back hurt. I also complained to my imaginary friends on Facebook, callers on the phone and the checker at the market. As unsufferability goes, I may have won a prize as the unsufferablist with what seems now as a mild sprain. Should I contract the flu – THE FLU! – I will surely turn into a sniveling, hacking monster. An incapacitated baby-man who will be useless, save for the temptation of the puppy dog to forcibly remove my face for lack of kibble in her bowl at regular intervals.<\/p>\n

So I thank you all in advance, or at least I should, for not getting your stuff on me. Also, I appreciate that you’ve received your swine flu vaccination and are doing your part to protect me. Your generosity and sacrifice has not gone unnoticed. Just please keep the mask on for a couple more days, would you?<\/p>\n

– bob<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

** Apologies to Jeremy Clarkson<\/a> who is not even a right-side-out monkey, but sure can turn a phrase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friends, Assorted live versions of influenza virii still inhabit the \u201cspray\u201d emitted from the pie holes of passers-by here at work, so at the moment of this writing, I’m hiding in my office. I can’t begin to tell you how thrilled I am about this, so I’ll start somewhere around the middle: since my asthma … <\/p>\n

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