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title: "Week 13, Monday: Recovery and Relaxation"
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date: 2024-10-21T21:55:00+02:00
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{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/9T9_DnB-02.png" alt="Credit: 9T9 DnB, YouTube" >}}
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I took the time to sleep in late this morning, and I'm still upstairs in the guest room. There's
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something quite relaxing about this bed and the room, and also not having small interruptions in the
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night like bathroom breaks from Marina or alarm clocks from Quinn or the bustle of folks getting up
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at 05:00 in the morning. It's great to be able to sleep in late!
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In the morning I drink my first cup of coffee. Last night I started watching Lost In Space, a 1960s
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television series depicting the Robinson family on their epic voyage through space. Looking back at
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this stuff is nostalgic: the video quality, the story line, and the acting are all not great
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compared to the slick production quality of a good TV show in the 2000s, and it's in black and
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white. I don't remember this series being black and white growing up, but it turns out it's only
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season one, because S02/S03 are indeed in _technicolor_.
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In the afternoon I have a rerun bowl of soup from the weekend. Marina was so kind as to make me this
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soup as it always helps me (my spirits at least, if not as well my body) when I am under the
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weather. On Saturday, I added a lot of chicken stock, until the carton was all gone, and it was
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_still_ watery. Today, I get to taste what I really made; a quite salty soup, indeed! I've added a
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cup or two of water to it. It just reminds me how vivid the taste is, and how bland/removed the
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taste was when I was battling COVID. Lunch is this chicken soup and a few soft-boiled eggs with
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bread. They as well taste a treat.
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After lunch, I further launch FreeIX Remote. I add a bunch of folks from Community IX and CHIX-CH
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who could benefit, and who understand enough to be able to appreciate, what the project is doing.
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This takes me a few hours of building, pushing, and testing. I'm still taking it easy because it's a
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new configuration and I am not convinced I got all the details right. That said, things seem to
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propagate just fine, so I consider it a win.
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Marina made chicken and hoisin sauce with broccoli and cashews for the evening meal. Wow, that's
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great. I appreciate that she's here for me and having home cooked meals (that I do not necessarily
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have to cook myself!) is a huge help. The dinner was delicious, and I can tell that Quinn also likes
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it, because at the end of the meal, almost the whole pan has evaporated.
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After dinner I watch some news (there's not much going on in the world), and end up my evening with
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a few more episodes of the Robinson Family in _Lost In Space_. I've canceled my trip to Amsterdam,
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and instead will focus on Barcelona later this week. Considering I'm free of fever, tomorrow I'll
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have a test and see if my viral load is sufficiently low such that I can visit ESNOG at least.
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## Pictures of the Day
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-21/IMG_2153.JPG" caption="Lunch: Chicken soup, soft boiled eggs and bread" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-21/IMG_2154.JPG" caption="Dinner: Chicken with hoisin sauce, broccoli and cashews. Omm nom!" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-21/IMG_2155.JPG" caption="Lost in Space from 1965, 4:3, analog film, black and white" >}}
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