Winter has finally come in Michigan, bringing snow, ice and some kind of virus that's making my joints ache and my lymph nodes swell.

Lots of water, OJ and time in bed reading should do the trick, and I'm feeling better now than when I woke up.

What does it say about a person if they take a general argument as a personal attack? I was talking with an old friend last night about how I'm not going to be going out as much, among other things for the next 2-3 months, because just last week I had to spend 3k getting the entire front end of my car rebuilt. This led to a general lament of modern consumerism, and the disposability that seems to run rampant through Western culture. The impulse that makes people buy a new phone/car/computer just because it's new, not because its actually better than what they had before, or that there was something wrong with the old gadget. My friend took this as a personal attack, telling me later, by text that I 'left a sour taste in his mouth.' I'll admit to that, the problems I was discussing are bitter pills, but I'm not the one that made them that way. I'm used to feeling like I'm not doing enough, like things are generally fucked. I forget sometimes that other people worry about only those problems right in front of them, and will be contented when those immediate issues are resolved. I forget sometimes that I'm crazy.