Got to cuddle nephlet, he made himself quite comfy in my arms, accepted being passed around to B1...and then turned into a big waily crybaby when it came time to feed him.

So tiny! So adorable!

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I am feeling, as the subject says, restless and unsettled.

The omicron variant has taken away much of my usual summer activities along with the people I ( Read more... )

Today, we registered 35,000 cases. And that was only from symptomatic people who managed to get PCR tests.

( lots of local issues )

I decided not to go up to visit the friend on the farm.

All my COVID rapid antigen tests come back negative (they're the 90% accuracy sort), but I'm still tired and exhausted and 'bronchial' (as I've been on and off for months), and I didn't want to be expending the effort of navigating a strange place and my health and the risk levels all at once.

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Still feeling 'bronchial', but the RapidAntigens (Tuesday, yesterday, today) come back negative. No point in trying to get a PCR until at least Monday, I think.

Then I'm due to head up to a friend's farm in the general region of antivax-Central, Australia, staying for at least a few days, possibly an entire week. Going with friends - all from ( Read more... )

Negative result.

Got a good night's sleep - around 6 hours - and am feeling less 'bronchial' than yesterday (when it felt like my bronchial tubes had their own nervous system).

Crap, just realised I should have something to eat. 'scuse me.

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Temp tomorrow is going to hit 35C in the afternoon. I'd like to beach early (ie. go when I wake which is ~5: ( Read more... )

I had my first summer social!

GOOD: It went well! People enjoyed it! (There were only 4 people and they were 'regulars' in visiting. That's fine.)

BAD: After everyone left for the evening, suddenly I felt like my chest had a hole in it.

GOOD: Panadol helped me sleep.

BAD: I think something I ate gave me issues.

GOOD: I was planning to go for a COVID ( Read more... )

The singer is the Eliza that I saw both times I've seen Hamilton (she's actually one of the understudies for all three Schuyler sisters). The second time, King George finished You'll Be Back, and then the lights didn't dim as expected, and we had a pause in the program, after which the headliner Eliza (Chloe Zuel) was replaced with Kirrah.

This filk ( Read more... )

Stay at home weekend. I think. I know, how can I not know what I did on the weekend?

You know how lockdown goes: the days seem to blend into each other and I hardly know if I'm coming or going. I know I went out for coffee on Sunday - was going to get some non-urgent things from the hardware store, but it was already queued up outside at 7am - but I ( Read more... )

( Because I typed this out and I just want to put it down somewhere )

Welp. Canberra has gone into lockdown after a number of positive cases ran through the city, and there are now in excess of 3000 close-contacts in a city of maybe 500,000 people. (2016 census said 390,000.)

Which means a lot of offices in our capital are scrambling. A few things that were going in over the weekend have been put on hold, and people ( Read more... )