Dog Daze

I have heard that "dog days of summer" has to do with the star Sirius, but I don't really know what it means.

Mike is off for the weekend. So is Matt.

Leanna has been sick for two weeks but still came to work until yesterday, when she stayed in bed. Saturday she never got out of it. (Update from Sunday, she still hasn't, and plans to see her doctor on Tuesday, the earliest she could get an appointment. The idea of going to the emergency room makes her sick.)

Petrick and I are still rebuilding our strength from Origins. Today we played a game of TIDE OF IRON which is some kind of WW2 tank game I bought at Origins because it was full of toy tanks and toy soldiers. Took is about an hour to figure out that the designer has no clue how war works, treating suppressive fire and "attack" as two separate functions with entirely different methods and results. Oh well, we'll fix it for him and, hey, we actually got to PLAY A WARGAME which we don't do often enough.