Pottering About Again

I'm back on my feet. Unsteady, slightly weak, but feeling much better.

A really bad week ended yesterday with my going down with my second heavy cold of the year. At what point does a cold become flu? Gabby says her cold became flu the moment I caught it. Is it really that simple? Do women really catch colds and men get flu?

I spent the day in bed, sniffling, sneezing, aching and sweating, and in my more lucid moments, trying to figure out how to restore a dead computer. (If anybody knows an easy was of installing Windows XP onto a machine with SATA drives, I'd be so grateful)...

Today, I'm going to continue to recuperate by reading a book. It might well be something by Nabokov or Greene. Or it might just be the new Harry Potter. And I'm not ashamed to admit it.