Friday

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-title: "Week 12, Friday:"
+title: "Week 12, Friday: COVID :("
 date: 2024-10-18T21:55:00+02:00
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-{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}}
+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/kushsessions-08.png" alt="Credit: Kush Sessions, YouTube" >}}
+
+In hindsight, I could've (should've?) seen this one coming. On Wednesday after coming home from
+Geneva, I went to bed early and I wrote:
+
+> _I'm feeling a bit tired so I turn in early for the night._
+
+And on Thursday after partying with my DJ Roomba, I tried to write a little bit of code for my
+FreeIX Remote project, but got stuck in a piece of BGP propagation logic that should not have been
+all that difficult, and I wrote:
+
+> _I mess around, and eventually abort the mission because I'm not feeling too great..._
+
+So I woke up this morning with a headache and a soar throat. Also, shivering. Wruh, wroh. I took a
+COVID test and wouldn't you know it: positive. Crap. Although both Quinn and Marina have picked up
+the corona virus before, I have not once tested positive for it. Much to my surprise, I tested
+positive today, first timer.  Marina asks if she can do anything for me, and I suggest to make
+chicken soup. It always cheers me up when I'm sick.
+
+I took my temperature it started off as 38.5C (101.3F) so I go back to sleep. I woke up at around
+14:00 or so, and took some of that chicken and vegetable soup. It tastes like water for some reason,
+so I add some more chicken stock, and some more, and then some. Still nothing - my taste is gone,
+but I've eaten something, so I go back to sleep.
+
+I woke up at 16:30 with my entire day gone, and I'm bored of bed, so I go downstairs to couch-surf a
+little bit, watching Rick and Morty episodes. I dose off, to be woken up just before dinnertime by
+Marina, who had made a fabulous chicken and black bean casserole. I ate a little bit of it, but I am
+now certain of it: either this casserole is very bitter, or I have no taste at all. Considering
+Quinn and Marina are chomping away at it without comment, I'm going to decide my sense of taste has
+simply taken the day off. I wonder how salty I made that soup in the end?
+
+After dinner, I am instructed by Marina to isolate, which I think is a good idea. Later in the
+evening, my temperature rose to 39.5C (103.1F) and time simply stood still for me, so I went back to
+sleep.
+
+Friday: poof, gone.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
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+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-18/IMG_2145.JPG" caption="Fever: check." >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
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