The rebel forces refuse to surrender

I've had a lingering cold for the last week.  I caught it from my roommate, but it wasn't really her fault.  It was stupid of me to pull an all-nighter and leave my defenses in a weakened condition with all those hostile germs lying in wait.  It probably didn't help that since I caught it I haven't gotten more than a few hours sleep per night, up until yestersday.  And now in my frustration, I've started downing whatever random cold pills I can find in the medicine cabinet (not in unsafe doses of course).  Yesterday I finished off some Dayquill and today I found some assorted decongestants.  In practice I'm not much aof a fan of taking medicine for something as mundane as a mild cold, but I'm sick of being sick now and my sinuses are crazy messed up.  C'mon immune system, hurry up and crush the rebel forces!

Hmm... Could viruses really be called rebels?  They're more like invaders, but once they get into your system they start reblicating using your own cells as incubators.  I think.  It's been a long time since my last biology class.  Eh, invading rebels, insurgeants maybe.

Clearly the cold pills are working their magic.  Whether said magic is actually being utilized to do more than play checkers with my brain chemistry remains to be seen.  That's right, you heard me.  Checkers.

On that note, I'd like to take a moment to talk about gay robots.  Not sex toys, but fully artificial and sentient robots that are also gay.  The idea was brought up in the sweetly existential webcomic, Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life.  (http://www.bohemiandrive.com/comics/npwil.htm) Itjust touched on it briefly as two female robots were forced to break it to the two male robot main characters.  But it threw me a total loop as soon as I read it.  Wait a second, these are totally upgradeable reprogrammable robots we're talking about here.  Couldn't they just switch out for a different model?  Or upgrade?  I've mentioned before that I'm totally fine with homosexuality but I found myself thinking, well of course there's no more wrong with gay robots than with gay people, but since they have the option wouldn't they prefer to have parts that... er... fit together?

For them it's more than just an accident of programming: they are lady robots who love other lady robots and also like to love them as the lady robots they are.  It's more than lilkely true that there are a lot of homosecuals out there who would leap at the chance to change their physical selves, and just as many unfortunate people who simply can't accept their sexual proclivity and would love to do a little reprogramming.  But most of them are just fine with being a guy who's into other guys or a girl who's into other girls.  Wait, I'm still just talking about robots, aren't I?