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Lingering cough

I have had a cough for several days straight.  I'm pretty sure that I got this cold a few days before the Winter Retreat.  I had the cough in full effect as I chaperoned the "Selgae's dance" at Eden Prairie High School.  And I hacked throughout my Wednesday night talk last night at Crave Wednesday.  Ironically, I talked about God's mercy.  Trust me, I know that God is merciful, I deserve for more than a pesty cough!

Other than the cough and a little congestion I am feeling fine.  I don't have a sore throat, head-ache, fever or some crazy rash.  I just have an annoying cough that has to come out and make sure everyone knows that it is there every 90-120 seconds.  I have tried all kinds of day and night cough syrups, cough drops, drinking water...  At one time I thought that my body was just addicted to coughing so I tried to make myself not cough like you would fight a sneeze when it's not an appropriate time to sneeze.  After realizing that was doing more harm than good I have concluded that I'm just going to have to wait this thing out and let it do its work on me.

I dislike fax machines

The only thing fax machines are good for.

I consider myself to be pretty tech savvy.  I enjoy using technology to get work done easier and maximize the work that I am doing.  Sometimes I like it too much.  One piece of technology that I have never liked is fax machines.  Fax machines have never been a technology that I could trust.  I understand the need for them (or I did 15 years ago).  I know that it is helpful when someone needs a document with a signature on it.  I remember the days in college when I would send a fax to my mom through my 28.8 modem to see if she would read through one of my term papers before the days of attaching files to emails.  My biggest issue is the fact that I don't trust that the fax went through until I talk to the person and hear from them that they did in fact receive every page of my fax.  Too many things can go wrong with a fax, the connection could never be established, toner could be out, paper jammed or out, wrong number etc...

This past week we had some families try to register their students for our Senior High Winter Retreat by sending us a fax.  It seemed to go through on their end but our fax machine was down and we didn't receive it.  Typically, this wouldn't be a problem except that we had sold out our retreat and this person would've had their registration in prior to our sellout.  We were able to squeeze her in but it added another chip in my mistrust of fax machines.