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title: "Week 6, Sunday: Sinus Headache"
date: 2024-09-08T21:55:00+02:00
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{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/dropstation-02.png" alt="Credit: Drop Station, YouTube" >}}

This day sucked!! I woke up at 07:00 with a _splitting_ headache. The last time I had this was a few
months ago in June, and my GP told me he couldn't find anything wrong. Something behind my left eye
is making a mess of it. However, I promised Quinn and Marina that I'd make a _brunch_ today! I take
a few pain killers and fall back asleep, to wake up again at 11:00 with the same amount of headache.
Bah.

My luck is low today: I turn on the Stromer bike to get some ingredients for my to-be brunch, but it
throws an error. It's been charging overnight but only shows 58% full, with some cryptic E210002
error, which I find other people online complaining about. Seeing as it has _just_ been to the shop,
I am worried that the problem may be bigger than antiipated. I reboot the bike a few times, but it
doesn't help. Then I pull out the battery and do a cold start, after which the bike resumes normal
operation. 

I bike to the _Coop Pronto_, it being Sunday and all, and get some avocado's, bacon strips and
handrolls. I think that it'll do. Back home, I fry the bacon and my head hates me. Marina and Quinn
come downstairs, I think they may have forgotten my promise, as they start making a lunch as per
normal. However, I'm really not in the mood for _Mimosas_ right now, and in fact, the scrambled eggs
I made are not looking very appetising to me, either.

I abort the mission, and go back to bed after taking another aspirin. I wake up at 14:00 or so, and
decide to make myself a steam-bath with Vicks vapor pellets (which contain a strong menthol syrup
which clears the sinuses). I steam it, it hurts my eyes, nose, mouth and throat (which is why I
think it works!) and my head calms down. Too bad I just wasted almost an entire day - that was NOT
an approved activity!!1

Well, eventually my headache calmed down and I moved to the basement to finish the sFlow loadtests
and learning spree I was on before this all happened. I wrote the story on the IPng website, and if
you're interested in this type of stuff, [[check it
out](https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2024/09/08/vpp-with-sflow-part-1/)]. I am blessed with an awesome
family, so Quinn and Marina made dinner tonight; Quinn made really delicious garlic bread with
_Caf&eacute; de Paris_. Interesting fact: _Caf&eacute; de Paris_ comes from Geneva, Switzerland,
invented by one Mr. Boubier in the titular resturant in 1930, which to my surprise is [[still
open](https://cafedeparis.ch/)] by the way. Marina made a green pesto from basil, garlic, pine nuts
and parmezan cheese, and I was pretty hungry by now having skipped a few meals.

After dinner we sort of all turned into potato bags and plopped ourselves onto the couch. Quinn
recommended we watch _Black Mirror_ again, and since it's been a while, we go for it. We only get to
watch the first episode though (not my favorite), as Quinn has an early day tomorrow. After he goes
upstairs, Marina and I watch a movie:
[[Interceptor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interceptor_(film))], with Elsa Pataky across bad-guy
Luke Bracey and Aaron Glenane, but with the help of good-guy Mayen Mehta. The story reminds me a bit
of the 1980s hero-movies: totally over the top, impossible action, good guy (in this case, girl),
always wins in the end, limited moral value, but some pretty cool stunts: just an easy on the mind
flic: 4.7 on IMDB :)

I want to make sure I get a good night's sleep, so I turn in after the movie ends at 22:30.

## Pictures of the Day

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  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-08/IMG_1158.JPG" caption="Stromer Drama continues: after charging to only 58%, it refused to drive with this obscure error. Bah." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-08/IMG_1159.JPG" caption="I developed a strong headache behind my left eye socket, and steaming with this Vicks pellet did help a little bit, overall: half the day lost sleeping it off." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-08/IMG_1161.JPG" caption="Quinn is making garlic bread, and wants you to see it." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-08/IMG_1162.JPG" caption="The finished product: garlic bread with cafe de paris, and pasta with green pesto." >}}
  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-08/IMG_1164.JPG" caption="The movie for tonight: Interceptor" >}}
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