1.  I’m not gonna lie, this may be a tough 40 things post to pull out.

2.  I’m having the hardest time shaking off this jet lag.

3.  We’ve been home almost a week now and I’m still dropping off to sleep while sitting straight up.

4.  It’s madness, man. Sheer madness.

5.  So I’m trying to hedge my bets and knock a couple of these out on Wednesday night.

6.  Why? Partly because I’m zombie-tired but mostly because I’m getting the updated covid vaccine in the morning.

7.  Those of you who’ve followed me for a while know how that usually works out.

8.  A covid vaccine and flu shot have the same sort of effect on me.

9.  Do I want to feel gross for three days?

10.  No, definitely not.

11.  But do I want to significantly decrease my odds of catching the actual flu or a complicated case of covid?

12.  Yes. Definitely yes.

13.  Which means Thursday morning I’ll get a bit of science injected into my arm and by the afternoon I’ll feel icky.

14.  Definitely puny.

15.  Perhaps even a bit miserable.

16.  Not something to look forward to but I’m certain staying up to date on my boosters is what made it possible to manage at home when I did catch covid out in the wild.

17.  I suppose the up side to doing this while staggeringly jet lagged is tagging out and embracing the couch.

18.  We just gonna lie down and sleep it off.

19.  I surely hope I sleep it off…

20.  The other possibility is awake and miserable but we’re gonna will ourselves right past that and into a nap.

21.  Cue Thursday evening and yes, reader, I do indeed feel puny.

22.  Sluggish…but with heightened nerve endings.

23.  Think sloth with blockhead syndrome mid-electrocution.

24.  That might capture it for now until these symptoms will morph again.

25.  And no, the napping part didn’t go great.

26.  Circumstances conspired against me, dammit.

27.  Seven managed to sneak a nap by my knees though.

28.  Little bit ‘o fading going on, let’s see if we can knock out the rest of these.

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32.  And that’s all I’ve got there.

33.  What else, what else…

34.  I made friends with Mark from IT after wandering wildly off course in a medical facility.

35.  You know it’s a time when the kindness of strangers escorts you through back channels to locate a check in desk.

36.  I mean, BLESS IT ALL.

37.  The tissues are calling.

38.  Or maybe the gatorade.

39.  Water? Ginger ale? I dunno, man, I just need to hydrate.

40.  This one was rough, thanks if you stuck with me to this point. Happy Friday!