There are some things I wish people wouldn't share...

[djkimmel]

Apparently, I did not keep to my usual good show habits to avoid having something shared with me... Someone gave me something during the Outdoorama that I didn't want. Ended up with a headache, fever, nose running worse than normal and now my usual cough and sore throat.

I missed a Michigan Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus breakfast meeting this morning. Didn't think anyone would appreciate me coughing on them...

I'm somewhat surprised as I've been doing a pretty good job the past few years in avoiding any show plagues! I also thought the Outdoorama show was pretty different in that I saw almost no evidence of persons walking around who were visibly ill (and probably shouldn't be there)?? Funny thing is I saw my regular doctor Tuesday morning and just had a runny nose (more than normal as I apparently have also developed allergies the last 12 months...??), was more tired than normal and slight fever. It wasn't until a couple hours after I left the doctor that it really hit me! Tuesday night and Wednesday sucked to put it frankly...

Seems to be fading away already, which is good considering the Ultimate Sport Show and the Bassmaster Classic are both next week and I have to be at both of them (not the same exact days of course, as I haven't figured out yet how to do that!). Been mostly sitting in my chair or sleeping the past 3 and a 1/2 days.

Hope no one else caught anything. I'd been hearing all winter about various illnesses going around but avoided catching any of them, thank goodness. Heck, we may be all fishing pretty soon, and who wants to be sick when it is time to start doing that?!?

[Team houston]

Are you coming to the swap meet?

[dartag]

It's this state.   9 weeks in Florida and not a sniffle.  Come home and had Sinus Plugged up for a couple days.   Bones ache and It's cold outside.

I miss wading in 74 degree water surf fishing.   Oh well only about 3 months until it warms up.

Pure Michgian. 

[djkimmel]

Well... like I said - our winter (at least for me) makes us appreciate the spring so much more than people who hardly notice a change...

And no, I'm not coming to the swap meet now. Spent the earlier part of the week in bed and started this morning with a nice 30 minute headache-causing coughing fit. I don't think people want me to share that?!? I need to fully recover as fast as possible for the Ultimate Sport Show in Grand Rapids and the Bassmaster Classic in South Carolina next week (still haven't figured out how to be in both places Friday-Sunday??). I'm thinking the people on the plane will not write me down as a favorite if I'm hacking my lungs up on the plane...