A Short Break, Star Trek, and Space Sirens

A Short Break

I had a shorter than normal break from work during the week of April 26. In some ways, it felt more like a pit stop than a real rest. I went to the doctor to have a persistent cough checked out. With swine flu in the news, this led to some extra testing, but after a day at the doctor’s office, the diagnosis proved to be allergies as I originally suspected.

I spent the next day at the dentist. The balance of my week was spent mailing out the spring issue of Tales of the Talisman an