I'm sick

I'm not quite sure when the spider disappeared from my desk, because I'm not noticing much. I have a summer cold, and my days revolve around sleeping, popping ibuprofen and running for tissues.

The spousal unit made me good kale soup yesterday. It's a traditional Portuguese-American dish, and you can get it all over Cape Cod. It's usually a mixture of kale, chourisco, beans and potatoes and is absolutely fantastic.

And, when it's made with this much garlic, it not only works on colds, it may also revive the dead.