I’ve been gone for a few days – sick with a virus that knocked me out of commission for a full week. It all began with a sore throat on Monday, April 21. By Tuesday morning, I was really sick. I stayed in bed and forced fluids, thinking I could beat the thing by washing it out of me. Well, it didn’t work. By Friday, when I had to get upright and take my grandson to his parents’ house a couple miles away, I was even worse off.
Just how bad it was can be explained this way. I had a headache, my nose was running, my eyes itched and had bags under them that made me look like a hound dog of some kind. Oh, how my eyes hurt. When I got to Dale’s house on Friday, he looked me over and asked “what’s with the shoes…?” Looking down, I could see that I had on one black sneaker and one white one (actually a very stained white one, as it was one of my old gardening shoes). I don’t believe I’ve ever done that before. I felt rather silly, but also got a laugh out of the whole thing.
And now it’s Wednesday, May 1. I’m feeling pretty good again, with just a bit of congestion still hanging on. I think I’ll live – and am now trying to catch up for being away from the computer for a week.
And on to more exciting things. As we all know, next week is the annual National Genealogical Society Conference, this year in Richmond, Virginia. I will fly out early Tuesday morning, and should be working in the exhibit hall by noon. I have until 5 pm to get the booth set up. This year I’ve just got one booth, and will be at the conference promoting the Salt Lake Christmas Tour, GenealogyBlog.com, FamilyRootsPublishing.com, the Map Guide to German Parish Registers series, and my Genealogy Newsline newletter. I won’t be hawking books as at the past NGS conferences, but will be sending folks to the Maia’s Books booth to buy my stuff. Come see me in booth 116.
