So I’ve been visiting my mom back east over the holidays and starting Saturday I came down with a killer head cold. As of today I’m bedridden just trying to sleep it out (with the help of some good PM syrup stuff). I’m in the guest bedroom, which many years ago was my bedroom, which I shared with my brother, until I moved into the attic Greg Brady style. In fact, I even slept in this room when I was a year old in a crib. It’s been redecorated since then.

There’s a cool TV in here mounted on a rolling computer stand that I can actually pull over the bed. Except it doesn’t have cable, so I can’t watch the Rose Bowl unless I go downstairs. It has a digital HD antenna, though, which I’ve never seen before. There all these extra channels in between the regular channels. I’ve been watching old “Rifleman” episodes, and “Rockford Files” and “Big Valley” and “Match Game ’75” and even some crazy Vietnamese talk show. Or I play Monopoly on my iPad against three other computer AI players and I set the difficulty level to “Extra Easy” and it’s like playing against little children and they will accept any trade and I demolish them every time and it makes me feel like a big shot wheeler-dealer.

I am really high on Heavy-Duty cold medicine right now. I’d write more but MacGyver is making something cool with a broken lightbulb and I don’t want to miss it.