I'm home, and I'm sick. Ugh.

I hate being sick. Oh, I loved it when I was young. You got to stay home, all bundled up, watch television all morning and just have fun. And it never felt as bad as it should have.

You make up for it when you're an adult. This feels horrid, thank you, and I'm thinking mostly about stuff I could be doing at work. I don't want to be thinking about work. I'd much rather be at work, thinking about stuff I could be doing at home.

In the meantime, what's happened to television in this country. I mean... this is the time of day that Cartoon Network goes straight to Hell. The best thing on 110 channels is a crappy old Saturday Night Live episode. Blurg.

I need to leave and go somewhere by 2, as housekeeping comes today. You know, I pay for this, and they don't even put a tasty mint on my pillow. I think the least they could do is put a tasty mint on my pillow.

I clearly need another cup of tea and some juice. I'm losing my painful little mind. It's going far far away. Illness has done this to me. Please, take my sad life as an example and be careful... won't you?

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I started work on the Review last night. It's going well -- I'm the sort of person who enjoys putting his opinions on digital paper, so this should be fun. At the same time, the online 'zine I'm hosting on my machine's kicking into high. I think in part because someone else wants our name, dang it. We don' like their kind, comin' in here with their sad sad ways.

Really, it's because they came in threatening legal action because of trademark infringement. As though declaring an intent to someday (but not yet) publish a magazine called "Insanity" constituted common law trademark. That's not the way it works, folks. Insanity's at 80% as it is. If there were an established publication or even something as far along as this one was, it would be something to work out. If "Skippy" at the alternate publication had sent along an e-mail saying "hey -- I've been working on a magazine too, what can we do to work this out," then something there could help too. But to threaten legal action on the first pass is pretty old stupid. All it does is make the people you're trying to convince angry.

There's this girl? Em? She's in charge of the magazine?

Don't get Em angry. Trust me on this. You simply aren't in her league, whoever you are.

In any case, I'm the guy with the server, not the magazine. But I don't intend to toss out the domain name I paid for (my contribution to the effort), so I'm all for getting issue one out and the trademark registered officially. Rude behavior and threats of litigation (then retracted when you show you've got legal advice as well, and more accurate advice at that) deserve to be spanked.

Or that could be the fever talking.