A Summer Cold is a Different Animal

... there was an ad for Contac when I was a kid which featured a huge Marty Kroft puppet microbe menacing people as they tried to flee. The jingle included the line above.

All of which is to say, I am fighting something off, and it's not being particularly cooperative. So I have declared today Lie Around Maybe Writing But Otherwise Doing Nothing Useful Day, in the hope that I can sneak up on the microbe and smash it flat. Meh.