I’m in good spirits despite probably having Covid, as does my whole family. I was exposed a couple weeks ago, but thought I had dodged a bullet despite having some minor cold symptoms. I tested negative three days in a row via home tests, then on day five after exposure got a negative PCR test. All clear, right? You would think. But a few days later Kia came down with symptoms, including a fever, and tested positive for Covid. Our kid is sick too, though she has yet to test positive.
We’re all vaccinated and Kia and our daughter are already feeling somewhat better. My symptoms are 90% gone. Of course it’s possible that I actually just had a cold and am about to get Covid, but that seems unlikely. My suspicion is that Omicron can spread even if a person is testing negative. But if I do/did have Covid, I’ve had colds that were much worse.
I’m sad that we have to quarantine and won’t be able to celebrate Christmas with the grandparents, but we’ll doing something in January to make up for it.
Treatment plan has been C, zinc, bromelain, black seed, and lots of garlic.
This and That
- Finally started The Witcher on Netflix. How did I overlook this show? It’s so good (at least for a D&D/high-fantasy fan such as myself). Might have to read the books and play the videogames as well.
- I have a new music release out today, a single from the forthcoming Momu album Moons of Jupiter. Momu – Io (Remixes) opened at #16 on the Beatport Breakbeat releases chart and the Jondi & Spesh Remix is featured at #3 on Beatport’s new Hype releases. The other remix is from Nosk, one of my favorite breakbeat production teams.
- I’m freelance consulting more than I have in a long time, doing Salesforce config and project management, and well as maintaining Access and SQL Server projects. That’s only leaving me a couple hours each morning for writing, but making good progress nonetheless on some new short fiction. The project management work is harder to batch than I’m used to, but I’m building up the skills and discipline to silo the consulting work into blocks and protect my deep work/creative time.
- As always, a reminder that my new novel The Last Crucible published by Flame Tree Press is available for sale. And a huge thank you to everyone that has read and/or reviewed any of the books in the series, or mentioned one to a friend.
I hope you are having a great winter holiday. And if you celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Susan Johnson
sorry to hear your news. wishing you stay as well as you seem to feel. But thanks for sharing your experience. We’ve been socializing with family.., working to stick with visits that involve just 2 households at a time…, and everyone doing quick tests beforehand. Masking if not eating… but we are in VT, so outside options are fewer. We had just started to question the idea that quick tests assured us that we were not ”shedding”. Add to that, our 14 yo granddtr had a friend she was close to test positive a year ago.., that friend’s whole family was sick. Our kids and grandtr isolated/quarantined at home. They had separate bathrooms, and were very conscientious about distance and masks. It took over 10 days for the parents to show symptoms. They had a heavy flu like experience.., recovered well.., and the grnd dtr never had symptoms. But they were just about to go back ‘out’ into the public., they had satisfied the number of days.., when they came down with it. This is an ongoing learning experience!
Happy New Year and all best wishes for merriment and joy!