Not too bad considering

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 23:53:22 GMT

I didn't get out bed till noon but since then (it's now 3:45), I have: cleaned up the dog diarrhea & vomit mess caused by my failure to get up & open the back door, fed the dogs, taken out the residual extra garbage & recycle material left over from the misunderstanding some weeks ago where Zack & I each thought the other had put the cans out for the collection day, washed the food waste & kitchen garbage cans, washed most of the algae off the front stairs, swept the kitchen, cleaned the kitchen sink & emptied the dishwasher & set it up again to run after 9 when the electrical rates drop, & cleaned my ergo touchpad, thus returning it to functionality.

I failed to get to the post office to mail Frank's ballot to him, but I have it, and a piece of mail labelled "urgent; only addressee to open" or some such, ready to mail. Ordinarily that last item I would have told him about and asked if he wanted me to open it and quote it to him over chat but I haven't heard from him or Hana in almost 3 weeks and I don't want to add yet more attempts to contact to the pile already there. For context, I usually see a comment from at least one or the other of them in family chat every day (they use family chat to talk to each other as well as to talk to me and Emma), so no chat or email or response to a text in this long is really unusual.

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Our defenses have been penetrated

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 07:32:56 GMT

So what happened is one of my daughter's coworkers came to work sick, tested positive later in the day. Now my daughter is sick & trying to isolate from her husband & child & the rest of us are doing the Schroedinger's virus shuffle. Trying to figure out what's the correct testing schedule & when I can assume that a negative test can really be trusted. How long do I have to isolate if I keep getting negative tests?

By my calculations, my first test should be tomorrow because my first possible exposure from that source would have been Monday. But I have felt ill all day so I tested today, got a negative. I honestly felt awful a few days ago and tested negative then. I didn't have any special reason to suspect exposure then but I had sixteen free tests and I figured I should test if I feel that bad. I also tested my blood pressure and blood sugar, both normal enough. No fever either. I even did an informal heart attack screen on myself, that's how bad I was feeling.

Of course, I could be somaticizing anxiety. I could. But it seems more responsible to look for physical causes that can be treated first. If I'm negative, I'll make an appointment after the testing period is over to discuss these bouts of feeling awful.

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Peeking into the rock

Not too bad considering

Our defenses have been penetrated