DALLAS 27, WASHINGTON 0

Well I'd say it's been a pretty good day. Our troops caught Saddam. The Ravens losts to the Raiders (I like the Raiders, despise the Ravens). And the Cowboys shut out the Redskins for the first time since 1971. That was a nice way to end a two-game skid and guarantee their first winning season since I don't know when.

Now, if I can just get my family healthy.

Mrs JYB and the young un came into contact with a bug-carrying kid last weekend, and now both of them have the flu. So it's a round of Tamiflu for everyone around here. I'm even taking it to keep from getting the bug myself, and since I never really did beat that cold I had a week or so ago...well, you can probably imagine how things are in the JYB World Headquarters. The Centers for Disease Control should just put a biohazard sign in our front yard.

Note to parents: If your kid has a fever, don't take the little tike to church. Or school. Especially if the kid is fluid-rich, if you know what I mean. That's what happened to us--a kid we know had a fever, he got hauled out in public anyway, and the rest is history. We spent a good part of Friday at the doctor's office getting Mrs JYB diagnosed. We spent the weekend with her in bed fending off the bug, until our little guy came down with it in the middle of watching The Haunted Mansion. Now, it's a lousy movie but I was surprised when he fell asleep about 30 minutes in, cried half way home (until he threw up), then resumed crying until I could get the car off the road long enough to clean him up. Since then he has been in bed with a fluctuating fever and an ailing disposition. Tonight, we spent a few hours in a clinic so the doctors could tell us that he had the flu (big surprise), prescribe the children's version of Tamiflu, give me enough samples of the adult version to hopefully keep me from succumbing, and send us on our miserable way. Then I got to hang around in a 24 hour pharmacy only to find out that there is no kids' Tamiflu available in the state of Maryland until tomorrow morning. A failure at getting my kid the stuff he needs, I dragged myself home, a tired, annoyed, slightly worried dad with a very sick family.

So parents, in case you hadn't figured it out there's a flu pandemic going on right now. If your kid gets the bug, keep it all home. Please.