So had a quick bout of Covid last Thursday. 100% no doubt about it unlike a couple "maybes" before -- driving in I thought the coffee was weak, then I stopped for lottery tickets since it was over a week since I was last at the office and craved some salty but the Cheetos were a bad batch or something. Got to work, took a bit from my bagel which tasted like cardboard...oh @#$^!@$@.
Had about 36 hours of symtpoms -- got a mild fever, muscle aches, and the congestion in my lungs wasn't bad but much thicker than I've ever felt before; I can see how people can go downhill fast, it was far "thicker" than my asthma/bronchitis in the past. I did manage to still work from home, it was mild enough.
The week before I went to the office, and whether a manager one row over hacking up a lung or not was the cause, I definitely felt a respiratory infection so I had worked Tu-Friday from home, WFH Monday so I could bring mom and Ed to doctor's appointment and other errands, figured since they were just over it I probably was exposed spending 3+ hours in the car so stayed home Tu & We to see if symptoms developed and you've heard about Thursday!
So was going to take Thursday & Friday off...and ended up working late into the night Tuesday, then Wednesday, then the 5:30 wake up call from work Thursday that I ended up having go into the office since 80% of the attempts by people to get remote access were failing (and we assumed it was 100%)...so worked half a day there.
Even after the time off this week I have 11 more "use or lose" days still to take this year, with no trips planned since I'm just finally getting to work on the Jeep.
TVs are so cheap today and the little 24" monitor I had out there died. 50" from Walmart!
Had to order and adapter to fit it to the arm I already have, it arrived Friday around noon but I will have to wait till Eric is down next time to hang it back up. Just to awkard to handle alone.
Still have some daylillies, about the only one unharrased by deer, blooming :)
I have a clean work area!
Clearly the perimeter still needs a lot of work.
The Jeep battery wasn't great last year. Bit the bullet an ordered a nice replacemnt today (20% off sale at NAPA!!!) but this one was so dead my little jump pack just said, "Sorry battery is in too poor of shape!" I did get it going with a 20 minute jump start, and while I desperately need to make a dump run I don't really trust the battery now if I stall it.
Well...huh. I guess the lesson is don't rush to leave for a trip next time this is at least the second fuck up from last fall I've found.
I'm guessing in both cases I forgot to come back and tightend things up.
Oh well, I can start on a bunch of the work this weekend and if the weather looks decent I'll take another four day weekend next week.
Ah, sitting in the garage at the end of the day watching Andrew Camarata on Youtube; this guys someone stumbled into what best I can figure is ASMR for men. It's mostly him operating heavy equipment and similar work with very little commentary. He's probably making six figures a year just off these videos -- 1.5 million subscribers and like 750,000 views per video.
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