Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

I stayed home from work with an annoying cold Thursday (and went through about a box and a half of tissues). Yesterday I was feeling better through about mid-afternoon, and then the sneezing, runny nose, and eye watering started again.

I had been planning to go to tnh and pnh's today, for general hanging out and a chance to get out of my shell a bit. However, I may still be contagious, and they're planning to be singing at GAFilk next weekend, so even if I was up to enjoying the party (after the subway trip), it would be unkind to inflict myself on them. Or, for that matter, on anyone else who might be likely to catch cold.

I'm not making resolutions—they just make me grumpy—but Patrick's invitation reminded me that I really do want to see more people in person than I have been. Last weekend's Newtonmass party in Cambridge was good in that direction, but I want to catch up with people here in New York, and more people I already know (that party included a few people I knew somewhat, one or two I'd played boardgames with before, and a bunch I'd never met, though one of the latter apologized for not remembering my name from a context I knew nothing about).