I finally got over a cold and a mild case of shingles. If you're wondering what shingles is, this website states:

Shingles (herpes zoster) are an outbreak of rash or blisters on the skin that is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox - the varicella-zoster virus....When the varicella-zoster virus reactivates, the virus moves back down the long nerve fibers that extend from the sensory cell bodies to the skin and cause the characteristic blisters of shingles.

A misconception is that shingles is contagious. It's not. I understand that the virus is reactivated when your immune system is compromised. This may have been a side effect of my cold, but perhaps it was due to my bike accident. The outbreak was exactly where I bruised myself.

The entire thing was an annoyance that was just compounded by the cold. I spent a week at home and happily came back to work on Tuesday. It was a needed cure for my cabin fever. This weekend I'm planning some overdue time outdoors either hiking, biking, or hopefully both.