Given my recent luck with all things computer-related, you might expect that this is a post about me getting a computer virus, but it is actually about me getting a regular sickness-causing virus. I’ve been sick since the Friday before last with some mystery virus that has all but knocked me on my ass. I’m way, way tired, no matter how much sleep I get, and I get these nasty headaches sporadically throughout the day. I have a swollen throat from time to time as well. I saw a doctor about it, but he was pretty confident it was just a run-of-the-mill virus that I would just have to wait out. So if you’re wondering why I’ve been unresponsive or M.I.A. lately, that’s why: I’m spending my spare moments sitting or lying down.

Complicating matters is the number of important meetings I’ve been having at work. For instance, I would have come home this afternoon, but I had two meetings with senior management and one with my manager and senior team to discuss coaching redistribution. All together, I spent four hours in meetings today. And that’s not bad—I’m actually getting a lot of important stuff accomplished in these meetings—it just makes it harder to take time off when I need it.

So I will be constructing a bot to answer general questions and give unsolicited opinions while I am away from work. This bot will be programmed with over 2,000 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard, and will be able to pick a location to go to lunch as well as decipher XML server responses. The bot will have complex artificial intelligence to detect when others are talking about fantasy sports, and will be programmed to put on headphones in those situations and listen to Sigur Rós or Explosions in the Sky.

Man oh man, I have a headache.

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