Drunken Owls and Other Delights

As it happens, many things in the neighborhood and nearby park must be blooming this week, as my allergies have kicked in and laid me out the last few days. They don't hit me all that often, at least not to this degree...sometimes I'll just get a migraine, but sometimes I'll just be one big head full of snot and chapped lips for a few days. I rarely call out from work, so when I do it's for valid reasons, and there was no way I'd be able to do an eight hour retail shift without needing to dose up on Airborne and Alavert. [It seems there were three other employees that also called out today, so perhaps I dodged a bullet because otherwise I'd most likely have had to do triple the work to fill their gaps.] Hopefully I will be up and running, or at least not as laid out, come Friday and Saturday when I have my weekend bookkeeping shifts.