I don't make a habit of disappearing for the better part of a business week, but I've been pretty horrendously sick thanks to a sudden ear and respiratory infection. I'll get a couple of things up today and then get back to bed so as to sleep the rest of this away. Sleep has helped the most, but running a close second is a pair of Steven Seagal DTV movies. Life could be worse: I could be living one of those realities.