Frequent readers may have noticed the lack of new posts in the past couple of weeks. The Lady has been ill. Near death in fact.  In plain text; I’ve had a cold. A quite stubborn one as well. At first I was just stuffed up, but after a night out with a few colleagues, the most interesting sideeffect occured; I went mute. No volume from vocal chords whatsoever.

Naturally this posed a bit of an issue at work, since my job is mostly answering the phone and helping people with computer problems. But thanks to an understanding boss, I’ve been answering emails instead for a week, so I wouldn’t have to go see a doctor for sick leave. And communicating with colleagues by Windows Live Messenger and post-it notes. The guy on the desk next to mine, now has a post-it with “Gesundheit!” on his monitor, so I’ll just have to point at it when he sneezes.

After a week of this, via the whiskey-and-smokes sound, my voice has gradually returned to normal and I am no longer vocally challenged:D

I prefer to believe it was the Jägermeister that fixed me.