Ugggh

See, there's this problem when I wait to update my blog: invariably I come down with the flu and then can't. This is the third time in the last 12 months, right after a blog hiatus (and travelling to the states), so I now have to conclude that this extends beyond Murphy's Law and karma to actual cause-and-effect.

Specifically: I just flew back this morning from a couple of weeks in Chicago. My job seems secure despite the restructuring. This freed me to look for a place to live in the US, and I have found it (I believe). News as it happens. Soon I will need to make an offer on the place to accommodate my July return to the US, whose time is now relatively well fixed. Of course there will be a successor Illinois blog, highlighting the silliness and depraved humor for which the Midwest should be famous, but (happily for them) isn't. For a sample, just check out the archives from APRIL 2003 and MAY 2003, when I spent 5 weeks in Illinois on my way from Florida to the Netherlands.

In the Netherlands though, and coming up on this very blog: lots of cycling and photos to do in the next three months--including a couple of marathon rides along the North Sea and one in from Maastricht.

But today I can't even get off the sofa. Totally wasted. Dehydrated and nauseous. Blacking out from jet lag. Two days of beard and a week of laundry.

Jet setting is SO glamorous.