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Diseased, Flying, Without a Vote in Sight
Nov. 5th, 2021 11:49 pmOn Saturday I went to bed with a sore throat that was making itself very aware and by the end of Sunday I was getting ready to punch floors.
Used Teladoc and was prescribed some antibiotics (penicillin! I might as well be hanging out with Louenhoek and Pasteur) and spent the two days afterwards drifting through sleep, working, and coughing up copious amounts of colored phlegm.
Some Good News, Bad News
Bad news: I lost my sense of smell by Tuesday.
Good news: as soon as I realized this we took a trip to a pharmacy and received the OK that it was NOT Covid. It was just an effect of a cold-like symptom because having a really bad infection beats up your immunity enough to let you get a cold.
Bad news: I live in NJ where there's a governor race
Bad news: Jack Citterelli is very obviously obnoxious. He makes me aware of it because he plays attack ads on the youtube content I run while I work.
Worse news: I had VERY OBVIOUS COLD-LIKE SYMPTOMS ON ELECTION DAY.
Good news: I applied for an absentee ballot way earlier.
Really worse news: ballot never came and I couldn't find out the status until election closed.
Good news: Jack still lost. Good bye and good riddance, and may I never see you grace my lets plays ever again and if you do I'm making sure that margin never gets that close ever again.
Back to the regular format
We're going to be flying to Los Angeles in early December to attend a wedding and because it's safer AND because she knows I hate flying, we're splurging and flying first class like fancy people on the way there. She's excited, I'm relieved I'm not knifing people in front of my with my knees and trying to pretend I can sit like that for six hours, all is well.
We'll be there for a week without a lot of obligations so it's a vacation week for the in-laws. I'll most likely also be working through most of it since I'm a contractor but requested some time away so I can meet my aunt who lives in Venice Beach and seems insanely insistent we meet and do stuff. I'll probably do some part time work anyway as I have to account for the time zone change anyway and am mostly checking for correspondence concerns so maybe I can check out some of it with them, or enjoy some California local television I guess.
Gonna be a busy weekend. I haven't exercised all week. My waist shrunk and I force-fed myself protein at times just to make sure all my muscle mass doesn't go away. I barely have time to develop my arms these days anyway. Got weighted gloves in the hopes it'll make up for the loss, maybe so they also double as a protection for my hands as I use the 15 pounder. Ate two pieces of chicken and a biscuit and felt utterly sick doing it, I think my stomach shrunk too much which explains why my belt's so loose even though my calorie burn is so low. Meals during this time were mostly broth and vegetables and a handful of jerky or a leftover meat chop I'd force down.
Work
Diwali week. I'm the only person who works in American holiday scheduling so I manned the queues myself to clear the stuff that might get problematic before they call it a day. Ended up working from 9am to 11pm while I tried to make sure my half-recovered medicine head ass didn't screw it all up, but nothing hit the deadline alarm. Whew.
D&D
D&Ders finally finished the arc. Now begins the hard part for me where I'm pushing them through high level campaign stuff where it becomes a lot more homebrew from me. Anyone familiar with Roll20? I could use some help on uploading maps.
Other Work
I got a lot of backlog for the second job. Almost finishing up one batch but took a break. After I finish this entry I'm going to finish up and go to bed. Maybe I'll do some exercise to make sleeping easier since I feel like my body is restless despite the exhaustion.
Twitter
Went viral for the first time. Holy shit. It's still going.
Weekend stuff
Need to get some salad kits since I did no real shopping last weekend.
Gonna need to fire up the tablet and draw some maps.
Got to clear up the part-time work queue.
Hell of a week (why isn't that my entry title?).
Used Teladoc and was prescribed some antibiotics (penicillin! I might as well be hanging out with Louenhoek and Pasteur) and spent the two days afterwards drifting through sleep, working, and coughing up copious amounts of colored phlegm.
Some Good News, Bad News
Bad news: I lost my sense of smell by Tuesday.
Good news: as soon as I realized this we took a trip to a pharmacy and received the OK that it was NOT Covid. It was just an effect of a cold-like symptom because having a really bad infection beats up your immunity enough to let you get a cold.
Bad news: I live in NJ where there's a governor race
Bad news: Jack Citterelli is very obviously obnoxious. He makes me aware of it because he plays attack ads on the youtube content I run while I work.
Worse news: I had VERY OBVIOUS COLD-LIKE SYMPTOMS ON ELECTION DAY.
Good news: I applied for an absentee ballot way earlier.
Really worse news: ballot never came and I couldn't find out the status until election closed.
Good news: Jack still lost. Good bye and good riddance, and may I never see you grace my lets plays ever again and if you do I'm making sure that margin never gets that close ever again.
Back to the regular format
We're going to be flying to Los Angeles in early December to attend a wedding and because it's safer AND because she knows I hate flying, we're splurging and flying first class like fancy people on the way there. She's excited, I'm relieved I'm not knifing people in front of my with my knees and trying to pretend I can sit like that for six hours, all is well.
We'll be there for a week without a lot of obligations so it's a vacation week for the in-laws. I'll most likely also be working through most of it since I'm a contractor but requested some time away so I can meet my aunt who lives in Venice Beach and seems insanely insistent we meet and do stuff. I'll probably do some part time work anyway as I have to account for the time zone change anyway and am mostly checking for correspondence concerns so maybe I can check out some of it with them, or enjoy some California local television I guess.
Gonna be a busy weekend. I haven't exercised all week. My waist shrunk and I force-fed myself protein at times just to make sure all my muscle mass doesn't go away. I barely have time to develop my arms these days anyway. Got weighted gloves in the hopes it'll make up for the loss, maybe so they also double as a protection for my hands as I use the 15 pounder. Ate two pieces of chicken and a biscuit and felt utterly sick doing it, I think my stomach shrunk too much which explains why my belt's so loose even though my calorie burn is so low. Meals during this time were mostly broth and vegetables and a handful of jerky or a leftover meat chop I'd force down.
Work
Diwali week. I'm the only person who works in American holiday scheduling so I manned the queues myself to clear the stuff that might get problematic before they call it a day. Ended up working from 9am to 11pm while I tried to make sure my half-recovered medicine head ass didn't screw it all up, but nothing hit the deadline alarm. Whew.
D&D
D&Ders finally finished the arc. Now begins the hard part for me where I'm pushing them through high level campaign stuff where it becomes a lot more homebrew from me. Anyone familiar with Roll20? I could use some help on uploading maps.
Other Work
I got a lot of backlog for the second job. Almost finishing up one batch but took a break. After I finish this entry I'm going to finish up and go to bed. Maybe I'll do some exercise to make sleeping easier since I feel like my body is restless despite the exhaustion.
Went viral for the first time. Holy shit. It's still going.
Weekend stuff
Need to get some salad kits since I did no real shopping last weekend.
Gonna need to fire up the tablet and draw some maps.
Got to clear up the part-time work queue.
Hell of a week (why isn't that my entry title?).
