Pim van Pelt
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| Week 6, Sunday: Sinus Headache | 2024-09-08T21:55:00+02:00 |
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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]. I am blessed with an awesome family, so Quinn and Marina made dinner tonight; Quinn made really delicious garlic bread with Café de Paris. Interesting fact: Café de Paris comes from Geneva, Switzerland, invented by one Mr. Boubier in the titular resturant in 1930, which to my surprise is [still open] 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], 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
{{< gallery-category >}} {{< 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" >}} {{< /gallery-category >}}
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