I'm sitting at a small round table at a Starbucks at the corner of Crosby and Spring Streets, and I feel icky and look like hell but I don't care because I'm not feeling quite as sick and submerged as I have since Saturday night, which was when a Paris virus invaded my blood. Constant fatigue, nausea, fever, aching muscles, weakness, sweat-sleeping ...awful.

After a second night of ache and torment at my brother's place last night (i.e., Sunday), the damn virus seems to be losing steam. I tried plugging in this morning at 4 ayem (I'm on Paris time, naturally) but the new AC adapter I bought in Paris suddenly wasn't working, so I shlepped back to Manhattan on the 7:23 out of Norwalk and found an electronics store on Fifth Ave. and 39th. A pale-faced, yarmulke-wearing salesman took a look at my Paris-bought adapter (which cost me 80 Euros) and determined that only half of it wasn't working, and he sold me a plug-in that fixed everything for only $10. On a plane back to LA at 4:45 today...

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 5, 2006 at 9:22 AM

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Brad says ...

Yamaka? I think you mean yarmulke. Might want to invest in a better version of Spell-check.

Posted by Brad at June 5, 2006 9:58 AM

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Stephanie says ...

Maybe it's just fatigue from all the traveling. Congrats to your son, by the way.

Posted by Stephanie at June 5, 2006 10:02 AM

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delbomber says ...

Yeah, maybe it's just fatigure from travelling. Rowing across the Atlantic certainly will take its toll on the body. Couldn't you have hitched a ride with your boy Al?...I heard his plane endlessly circumnavigates the earth emitting CO2 and is open to anyone who will spread his message.

Fun, fun. Congrats to your son...may he cherish this exciting period in his life...

Posted by delbomber at June 5, 2006 10:42 AM

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Mike Schaefer says ...

Jeffrey, as an ex-NYer who has been in SF for 15 years, I adore your NY pics -- they make me want to move back east. SOHO in the summer -- ah, the memories!

Posted by Mike Schaefer at June 5, 2006 10:53 AM

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