This week, Ruth and I didn't go the Isle of Man.

It's (approximately) our 0x10th anniversary, and, struggling to find a mutually-convenient window in our complex work schedules, we'd opted to spend a few days exploring the Isle of Man. Everything was fine, until we were aboard the anniversary, geocaching, history, health, geohashing, anniversary break 2023, published on gemini, illness

I'm off work sick today: it's just a cold, but it's had a damn good go at wrecking my lungs and I feel pretty lousy. You know how when you've got too much of a brain-fog to trust yourself with production systems but you still want to write code (or is that just me?), so this morning I threw board games, games, web, javascript, video games, maths, illness, open source

I managed to dodge infection for 922 days of the Covid pandemic, but it caught up with me eventually.

Frankly, it's surprising that it took this long. We've always been careful, in accordance with guidance at any given time, nd we all got our jabs and boosters as soon as we were able... but

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It seems that there's been an increase in alpha-gal allergies, which causes a sensitivity to meat and meat products. The increase is blamed on ticks whose range is expanding owing to climate change. Gaia hypothesis in action? (Nah. But interesting anyway.)

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