1) Official Day Four of cold. Coughing through the night regardless of medication and of head elevation with extra pillow. Bleah.
1a) Breakfast of champions: a bowl of scalding chickarina soup with an egg dropped in. Rich, delicious, and soothing.
2) And someone just said it's Mercury retrograde, which would certainly explain what's going on in Washington.
3) With the news kerfuffle about my airline not having enough pilots, I checked my reservations and, uh-oh, I'm actually leaving two days earlier than I thought.