The morning catch-up meeting at work today, virtually attended, thankfully, was 100% comprised of people complaining about how sick they were over the holidays, how bad "the cold" and "the flu" is this year for them and their families, how miserable it was being sick on holidays instead of celebrating, and how they're all too sick to get much work done today with just a couple of people chiming in that they were healthy enough to cover for other people today. After 90 minutes of this one of the organizers just pulled the plug and closed the Zoom room rather than trying to get any actual work business done.

Happy 2024 to all! It's off to a great start.