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Day 2 of being an icky sicky bear

Yesterday was rough but last night and this morning are worse. Sore throat, achy joints, coughing, fatigue,  and it feels like gravity is turned up to 2.5g or so. 

Spending about 95% of my time in bed on a heating pad, eating soup and wanting comfort from the Pyewacket and Newton. 

Best part is fever dreams, and just sleeping in general. 

Too weak to even play video games. That’s pretty dang sick. 

With historic tiebreaker from Pence, DeVos confirmed as education secretary – The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/senate-to-vote-today-on-confirmation-of-betsy-devos/2017/02/06/fd4b7e9c-ec85-11e6-9662-6eedf1627882_story.html?utm_term=.de011c32fe61

Well, hell. 

The entire Democratic caucus of 48 senators voted against DeVos, as did two Republicans, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, who said they did not think that DeVos was qualified for the job. The remaining 50 Republicans voted for DeVos, setting up a 50-50 tie that Pence broke with his vote at about 12:30 p.m.

It marked the first time that a vice president’s tiebreaking vote was needed to confirm a Cabinet secretary, according to Daniel Holt, an assistant historian in the Senate Historical Office.

Too close for comfort. 

“I thought I understood his kind: the petty bureaucrats of tyranny, men who relish the carefully measured meed of power permitted to them, who need to walk in the aura of manufactured fear, to know that the fear precedes them as they enter a room and will linger like a smell after they have left, but who have neither the sadism nor the courage for the ultimate cruelty. But they need their part of the action. It isn’t sufficient for them, as it is for most of us, to stand a little way off to watch the crosses on the hill.” 

― P.D. JamesThe Children of Men