Jason M. Hanley :: Custom Software Developer

Well, so much for regular updates to the blog. It’s getting on towards two months since my last entry. I guess that reflects how busy things have been this term. Haven’t had much time to think about blogging.

February went by in the blink of an eye, as usual. I managed to get all my deliverables in before my Reading Week trip to Cancun. The trip was absolutely great: Lots of relaxing during the day and partying at night. The weather was awesome, with beautiful sunny highs around 30 and breezy and cool in the evening with lows around 20. I think I need to make a tropical trip a yearly event in mid-winter. It is so nice to get away from the dismal lack of sunlight and cold weather, even if for only a week.

As all good things, the trip came to an end, and things went sharply downhill. I’d had a slight cough the last day in Mexico, and didn’t really think much of it, until I started getting a fever on the plane ride home. By the time I arrived back in Waterloo, I had a full-on fever, chills, congestion and what turned out to be a pretty horrible flu. The night of my return, I passed out and slept almost straight for 20 hours. When I did finally get up out of bed again, I still had the fever and chills and felt pretty much like I was going to die.

Eventually the fever broke, and I was just starting to feel somewhat alive again when the cough came back with a vengeance. I was getting worse and worse and I knew I would have to get myself to the doctor’s. So on Friday my roommate and I went to the walk-in clinic. She was also really sick. We both ended up getting antibiotics. By Sunday the antibiotics had started doing their job and I was feeling a lot better. It’s now Tuesday, and I’m still coughing a little bit, but feeling much more alive. Which is a good thing, considering I now have to catch up from the week I was out for. Luckily there wasn’t too much due last week. I did miss a midterm, however, and the mark will be allocated to my final exam, putting a lot more pressure on the tail end of the course.

All in all, things are going ok, and I think I should be able to keep up with the hectic pace that March will bring with it, now that I’m feeling healthy again.

And perhaps I’ll even manage to write another blog entry before the end of term