Nice way to usher in the New Year with a pesky cough and stuffy nose. This pesky cough has been lingering since the 27th. I’m so clogged up my head feels like it’s ready to explode, my ears ache, my skin’s dry and my nose is sore from constantly blowing it. It seems like when I lie down, my cough gets worse too.

So there goes my plan to go to the gym for at least another week until I’m better. I hate winter in Ohio and it’s not even the coldest part of the year yet — 33F today. J and family had Pork & Sauerkraut on New Years day as a tradition, supposedly it brings good luck and a prosperous year. Not really a Pork & Sauerkraut guy (can’t stand the smell!), so I cooked myself Garlic Spaghetti and a side of Stir-fried peppers instead — hope that brings me a good year.

My beloved [1] Cleveland Cavaliers started off the year well with 2 wins out of 2, lets get the confidence and momentum going again. [2] Ohio State Buckeyes plays their BCS Championship game in a couple of days. Wishing them good luck and hope they win! Love to see another championship again (since 2003) after losing it last year.

Registered for my penultimate Masters course this week. I am down to my last two courses for my MBA. Woohoo! It has been a long time coming but I’m finally near the end.

Had a bad case of browser problems this week too. It seemed that my Firefox 2 and IE7 browser had problems displaying javascript. After a few days of messing around, uninstalling, reinstalling the browsers without success — it magically worked when I reset IE7 and reinstalled the Java Runtime update 3 plugin. My suspicion is that it has something to do with Microsoft’s patch updates, every time it updates my WinXP operating system, something gets broken on my computer. I’ve since set it to manually update instead.

Now that I have got all my the rants and ramblings out of my system, I feel better now. However, the grumpiness still remains. Sorry J, bear with me till my cough and stuffy nose clears up.