Still sick

but hopefully it's almost over. Sometime late Wed or early Thurs, my nose quit imitating a faucet. And the fever peaked sometime around then too (101.9 was the highest reading I got)

Apparently it wasn't the flu as my stomach and the other end of my digestive tract have been well behaved. So it's just "the cold from hell" that I get occasionally.

Last night was the onset (and thankfully, a few hours later, the end) of the "try to cough large amounts of crud out of the lungs" stage. I'm very happy that's over with, especially as many times that stage has lasted for days.

Still a bit stuffed up in the head and achy in places, but I'm probably mostly ok now. We'll see.

Next bit is to be able to stay upright for extended periods. Well, I *can*, but I think my spending most of the time horizontal helped a lot. In the past, this soprt of thing has dragged on for more than a week. Guess I'm acquiring some wisdom with the gray hairs.

Parents? Folks with friends with kids?

I've got an idea for a scene in a story. But I'm uncertain about how to make it work.

Basic idea is that a semi-passable crossdresser is out for the evening near a "tranny" bar/club. She sees a friend's kid on the sidewalk and asks where her mother is. Then she goes to lead the kid to mom. Bigots see the "guy in a dress" leading off a kid and jump to the conclusion that it's a child-molester trying to kidnap a kid.

What I'm having trouble with is figuring out how exactly the kid (say 5-7) got away from a mom who is at all responsible long enough to be out on the sidewalk and at least several doors (shops/businesses) away.

Any suggestions? I know kids can move like lightning, especially at that age.

Best I've come up with so far was kid slipping away during a bathroom run.