# Personal Weaknesses // 18-10-4

Since some days, I'm again somewhat sick with a cold, but that's
not the right word. In German, it's "Schnupfen" which describes the
noises you're making when trying to cope with a running nose.  The
reason in my current case is an inflammation of the sinuses(?) and
a resulting cough which every now and then becomes heavy.
Apparently it's a weak spot of my body, actually the whole respiratory
tract -- although I never smoked...

So I was working from home during two days, albeit at half power.
And yesterday I even went to the physician, to have my lungs checked,
as last year I suffered from a (fortunately not that heavy) pneumonia.
Fortunately, it's only a viral infection, so going slowly and being
patient is the only thing that helps. Today, I was back at the lab.

The real reason for the current issue however is sleep deprivation.
Whenever I get too little sleep, the probability of catching
flu/cold/whatever strongly raises, which happened again some weeks ago.
It seems the older I get, the stronger this effect becomes.

Which means I should finish this and go to sleep!
(And for the first time use my new C.S gopher-git setup for a *real* post.)

.:.