I am lowering the cone of silence this morning due to a bug of a indelicate nature. Red Sox management will just have to get along without me for a while.
Update: Oh - and one more thing. Please vote for both A Good Beer Blog and this here Gen X at 40 at the Canadian Blog awards. I think both are up for best blog - which risks splitting the vote and letting the mighty Flea sneak through. The beery set is up for best group blog and best culture blog and the Tantrama City posts are up for best series. This is a two round competition with the top five in each going on.
Noon Update: So sick...need...votes...to feel...better.

Comments
John of Argghhh! - November 24, 2005 12:22 PM
Happy 'Murican Thanksgiving, sicko...
Hmmm. Vote for da Flea... or Genx... or the Beer Blog.
Heh. Not as hard a choice as it sounds... but wouldn't you like to know where it will go!
Alan - November 24, 2005 12:33 PM
Hmmm...something that makes you itchy, a bunch of slackers or the beverage the Lord gave humans...a tough choice indeed.
Cyn - November 24, 2005 2:04 PM
BTW Alan, "A Good Beer Blog" was used as an example as a specific-type blog in an internal CBC paper on Blogs. So even if you don't win, at least the good folks at CBC have enough sense to know a good blog when they see one.
Alan - November 24, 2005 2:37 PM
[<i>...head lifts briefly from pillow, fingers move perhaps in acknowledgement, then entire frame collapses back into over-the-counter induced sleep...</i>]
Cyn - November 24, 2005 5:14 PM
You poor sap.
Cool Girl - November 24, 2005 7:04 PM
I just tried to vote for you dude, but they rejected me.
They said I had already voted once today.
Which I did. For myself. Alas.
Tomorrow is yours, baby!
GR - November 24, 2005 7:16 PM
I tried to vote twice but was rejected too. I have to ask my dog to try....
Alan - November 24, 2005 7:21 PM
One vote a day each, people, one vote a day each. Unless you go to another computer on a separate internet account, that is.<p>[<i>...cough...cough...</i>]
Cool Girl - November 24, 2005 7:32 PM
Yes. Been door-bashing all through Charlottetown today myself.
"Ahem. Hello. I am with the Jehovah's Witnesses. Would you mind perusing this phamphlet whilst I check your computer for evil spirits? Thank-you."
Arthur - November 24, 2005 7:37 PM
Which nominee are you?
Cool Girl - November 24, 2005 8:12 PM
The most boring one. The least deserving one. Yet, still, I demand your vote!
Alan - November 24, 2005 9:09 PM
Hmm...you appear to be begging for votes on a sick man's blog who is in the same competition. Are there no limits to the ethical vacuum called the internet?<p>
[<i>...blows nose...</i>]
Cool Girl - November 24, 2005 9:13 PM
I said you are tomorrow, baby!!!!
And if you keep crying, maybe even Saturday too.
Cool Girl - November 24, 2005 9:17 PM
And really, how sick are you? Sicker than me? I think not.
Alan - November 24, 2005 9:22 PM
I am clearly sicker as I have intersperced my comments with bracketed sickie sounds. <p>
[<i>...sneeze...</i>] <p>
Like that. And I did sneeze. I really did.
Cool Girl - November 24, 2005 9:39 PM
Right. You win.
Cool Girl - November 24, 2005 9:39 PM
Can I be your campaign manager, then?
Alan - November 24, 2005 10:36 PM
Definitely! You have the only characteristic that matters, don't you? The drive for empty award supremacy over my bloggy nemesis, that pesky yet persistant Glorious Flea. He is the web-slinger to my J. Jonah Jameson.
Cool Girl - November 25, 2005 8:37 AM
I have taken the opportunity to visit that bastard.
Anyone who campaigns so openly, begging for votes, must be pitied. Not hated. Pitied.
We will crush him. Because people will VOTE FOR US! Especially me. But you as well.
Alan - November 25, 2005 9:14 AM
Shhh!!! Being rude will only incite his sherry-fueled powers.
Flea - November 25, 2005 1:14 PM
Hey, Mr. Jameson. I can probably get some action photos of the Flea. A scoop for page one! Or possibly Page 3 considering how hot he is.
GR - November 25, 2005 6:40 PM
I feel like I should stay away from Alan's blog, I don't want a cold!!!!
My dog says he is voting for CoolGirl. I don't know, rumors that she is passing out Liver snaps or something. I'll see if the cat can be convinced to vote for Alan...as for me, I am wondering, ahem, what's IN IT FOR ME if I vote early and often for both blogs. If my dog gets treats, maybe Alan is offering FREE BEER.
Alan - November 27, 2005 6:45 PM
You go to Ithaca for a couple of night and the dastardly mixmaster Dr. Flea has scoped the place out and is trolling for loyalistas! Kramdangledat! And he is promoting a lifestyle, too.
Cool Girl - November 28, 2005 2:57 PM
I tell you put those paws on the computer, doggie! All doggies vote now, and vote often!
I also have a heady supply of catnip.
GR - November 28, 2005 9:26 PM
The cats will do anything for some Tender Vittles, which apparently coolgirl is also offering. So Alan is outta luck, no extra votes from this household. However, my own vote(s) are soon going to coolgirl, because of the 'nip, man. Unless Alan ponies up with some FREE BEER.
Cool Girl - November 28, 2005 9:54 PM
Tender Vittles for every kitty in Canada I say!
Add that to my list of promises.
Alan - November 28, 2005 10:26 PM
Two Big A IPAs sitting in the stash, Gary. Zalimsayin.
GR - November 29, 2005 7:38 AM
Nice. Good start. After all, Flea has had some interesting content lately......
Alan - November 29, 2005 8:02 AM
Errr...and a Brooklyn Chocolate Stout as well?
GR - November 29, 2005 12:31 PM
Toss in some doritos and salsa and my wife says she will vote at work!
Maybe we could all vote Flea as best religious blog, coolgirl as best conservative blog?
Alan - November 29, 2005 12:40 PM
I have faith in the Flea. Ithaca was rocking by the way. Cornell has pretty good hockey.