Tested Negative!

 Nose is still a little irritated but OUT on an errand.

Note to self: flu shot. Ask how long before I should get #COVID booster. Party!

Hold off for a week visiting RantMom. They sent emails about people testing positive but everyone is cleared and the few staff affected are clear to return to work.

Need to keep up the hydration and sleep. Fortunately past the couple days when I could sleep a REALLY long time for me.

Ordered my new free tests. Not charmed by prices on Amazon but I will cope

Day 11

RantWoman keeps meeting people getting #COVID for the first time.

Is that because at least in the crowd where RantWoman was today, NO ONE wears masks prophylactically.

Yes indeed, RantWoman put on a good mask, braved rain at start of trip, made an easy bus connection, walked 5 blocks from bus to event and WENT TO A LIVE EVENT with people she mostly has only met on Zoom.

One live event miracle is all the side conversations one can have.

Event was a celebration. RantWoman still owes the world some posts from the media kit but not tonight.

By the time RantWoman walked the 5 blocks back to the same bus, rode back to Seattle, and misguessed about the best stop to get the beloved 8 home, RantWoman was EXHAUSTED.

Nose and congestion still feel not normal. But at least the #COVID test shows negative. Go figure. 

RantWoman will be trying to add more mid day walks and runs on the exercise bike to stay better in condition. 

Day 9 with some Cyber security awareness month to distract me

Pay attention to the above advice because it was collected while brain is not quite all there.

Day 9. Yesterday's test was defective. Today's still has two stripes though the test one is lighter.

Not really spiking fevers but temp regulation is a little off, possibly just because of not enough exercise.

In person event tomorrow. Find one of the good two-layer masks with a wire over the nose.

Give self the option of staying home.

No I still have not contacted my health care provider.

Day 6: Masks and chopped celery

Covid test card

 The last few tests, the second bar appears almost as soon as the test solution hits the card. This one took awhile.

Weird because I still feel a little #COVID y

Lungs keep clearing.

A little achy but the same taste I always get with tylenol.

Finally decided to go ahead and order vegetables. I should have waited because friends offered. But chopping and freezing celery and green peppers feels like needed exercise.

Cognitively, somehow misjudged distance. Bumped a neighbor who told me to go take a nap. But definitely had brain cells for next in a series of COOL software trainings.

Topical Rant

RantWoman HATES paper masks.

RantWoman dislikes waste and feeling forced into disaster capitalism.

RantWoman finds paper masks irritating.

RantWoman hearts cloth masks

any mask is better than no mask.

Enough said.

Day 5 with a cat in Riga for company. Latvian mural features red cat named Peach

 

Cat vids! 

Probably RantWoman will actually dabble in "favorite" Youtube streams if she can get through some must do's first.

In the meantime, cat vids are what RantWoman has brains for. And since Latvia is on the list of places NOT wanting anything to do with a certain neighboring aggressor, this cat vid is in its own way effort to ward off evil.

Regarding #COVID brain fog, as with many muddled brains, RantWoman thinks she is just fine--until signing into Zoom or coping with the two-factor authentication she herself set up is too much. We also will not discuss failing to pay attention to a pot of formerly dried beans on the stove: beans are definitely done. Pot will need some scrubbing.  Hopefully, later the beans can turn the rest of the way into food.

Now focus enough to order a talking thermometer. RantWoman is definitely having fevers, but they are not super high fevers.

Between Tylenol and chest congestion seeming to clear up some, it no longer hurts to cough.

Taking the rest of the trash out will have to wait.Probably some exercycle time on the horizon though.

Finally, RantWoman is VERY glad to have evaded #COVID this long, annoyed to have it now, and counting herself VERY lucky about many recovery issues. RantWoman peculiarly is heartened to hear of others in her circle getting #COVID for the first time. Misery loves company?

PS For Future Reference,

Extended Expiration date info page

Two bars on the test, two days in a row.

RantWoman KNOWS #COVID numbers are up and RantWoman has got spoiled about going mask free. One excuse is about needing wind and sound on her cheeks to help about navigation. RantWoman is also just tired of everything to do with the topic but does fully intend to get booster vaxed.

RantWoman is also white knuckling prayers that two activities last weekend were not places RantWoman infected anyone else. RantWoman can live with the possibility that she got infected at one of her activities but definitely does NOT want to have infected anyone else.

Two days of drippy nose.

Being easily able to sleep far longer than usual.

Drippy nose seemed to be getting better about like average cold but unusual headache.

All right. All right. Do a COVID test. What is the expiration interval? Who cares? Two bars CLEARLY visible even with RantWoman's bad eyes

Call doctor? Ask for Paxlovid? Nah, not so much. But figure out needed isolation period and order chicken soup from Amazon

Need to cough. Some of the time it hurts to cough.

Coughing is productive sometimes. 

Body in general feels better with movement.

Not much mental or physical stamina, 

So, take it seriously. 

Cancel weekend travel. 

Cocoon. Do as many needed chores as tolerated. 

Ask a couple people to check one me if they don't hear anything for a couple days. Try not to overstress people already overstressed.

Treat YouTube like supermarket tabloids.

Pay attention to some writing deadlines.

Be VERY grateful because it could be worse.

 

Meet Rep. Jasmine Crockett on #project2025 with a side of broadband.

It's been a long but sunny day. RantWoman is tired from an extended in-person meeting and from insisting on walking and the comforts, at least for her, of the bus compared to car travel. Metabolically, RantWoman is somewhere between caffeine buss and sugar high.

In short, RantWoman is in the sort of mood where prudence might dictate laying off the keyboard.

With that as an intro, RantWoman still needs to go off.

RantWoman generally LOVES Rep. Jasmine Crockett. In the clip below, RantWoman loves to hear Rep. Crockett tear apart #Project2025 and the #GOP lie vortex.

RantWoman, though, does NOT love the moments at the end of the clip where there is a hapless witness trying to make what he thinks is a point about costs per customer for broadband service. For his trouble, sincere or not, reality based or not, the witness earns a lecture inviting him not to complain about #DEI. 

RantWoman can easily imagine that the witness has earned a lecture, and hopefully there is another hearing where discussions of persistent inequities in broadband deployment, probably tied to the same concerns DEI programs aim to overcome.

IN the meantime, please enjoy the firecracker effects.

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