Wow.  I’ve been really sick.  I spent the better part of this week in bed listening to Venom's "Cast in Stone" and playing the original PS2 version of Smackdown vs. Raw.  Actually, all of us have been sick over the course of the last few weeks with some kind of awful stomach bug that seems to have been going around.  Is it possible to catch stuff from other folks through the blogosphere?  It seems as though our pals Claki and Corey have experienced the same agony in recent weeks as well.  The really weird thing is that we had the same kind of unpleasantness at our house at almost the same exact time last year.  Ugh!

Over dinner tonight, Baby Z.’s Nona shared a classic bit of Greek "folk wisdom" with us.  She told us that her dad used to tell her,  "Whenever you sneeze, it means that somebody doesn’t like you."  So how about when you’re in the throes of a major gastrointestinal sickness?  Man, I bet somebody out there really hates me! Who needs medical science when you can rely on Greek superstition, eh?