Sometimes REBoot is a Good Thing
It is hard to navigate in a fog
I was pretty sick for a couple of days this past week. I don’t like to be sick and I’m fortunate it doesn’t happen very often. I came home after a long day on Thursday and in the middle of the night I woke up realizing someone had shoved a brick into my stomack while I slept.
I spent the rest of the night sitting either in a chair or else where but sitting none the less. It was after breakfast the next morning I realized this wasn’t going away after a few hours. My head hurt like they must have shoved the brick through my nose. Either that or there was a second brick that was slowly expanding in my head. Maybe that’s it.
The Brick Dissolved
That brick slowly dissolved and entered my blood stream causing massive shutdown of my muscles and joints. Drugs were used to control the pain life on the couch was about all the movement I could get out of the rest of my body.
A little white pill donated (I had no idea what was in it) put me to sleep on the couch for the second night. (We don’ t have a couch as such. It is a series of recliners joined together with a couple of cup and remote holders between a few of them.) Which makes sleeping on this concoction of chairs and humps difficult.
But at 4 am I awoke and all the bricks and particles were gone from my system. A little tired from the experience and glad it was over in 36 hours and not 4 days as I had feared.
Something happened though I hadn’t counted on. The whole 36 hour experience served as some kind of internal reboot. Like I have to do with my Blackberry. It gets to acting strange and suddenly locks up. I pull the battery while it is turned on and after about 5 minutes it resets everything and functions great after a reboot.
One of the things I enjoy doing and might even go so far as to say am passionate about is writing. But lately, there has been a glitch in the software. I was out of words or thoughts weren’t coming together in any way. I wanted to write, I needed to write, but nothing was being written.
A Glitch in My Software
There was a glitch somewhere. It appears I’ve undergone a power on reboot. The end result some thing has been reset and I’m writing again.
Maybe there is a good reason why we get sick. I always thought sickness was a bane. And we do everything we can to take drugs and keep on pushing and pushing harder to keep going. Like me trying to get one more tweet and one more email responded to with the berry when I know the smart thing to do is just pull the battery and let it reboot. But I don’t want to take the time. I have too much to do, till I have no choice and it stops working all together.
I know that it wasn’t a pleasant experience being sick, but I will never look at the experience the same way again. I’ll take it as my signal that a reboot is in process and will shut down to let it happen as quickly as possible and maybe, just maybe I’ll find there was a software upgrade that took place during the reboot or at least I’ll be functioning again.
It really feels good not to be sick.
