Death warmed over
Say nice things and be ignored. Gore people’s oxen, and they may not like you for it, but they sure as heck respond.
Sorry, no oxen gored today. Indeed woke up feeling less than perfectly perky. (See post title.) Could probably have dragged self to work, but have sick time to burn, so why not burn it?
And you people who read computer books when you’re sick are just weird, ’k? There, that’s the best ox-goring I can do today.