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Wrongplanet apparently dead in terms of posting activity at 02:23 on 15/06/2022.

I want to build a Syrian folding chair but without the arm and back rests....to use as a stand when I play the Qanun I'm building

It may or may not be raining outside.

Heat alert in my city.

So hot outside

I am glad it is not as hot here as it is in Texas.

The heat wave continues

Coming back from the river is so weird. Going from 2-4 miles per hour and then getting on the highway and going 70+ mph. On the on ramp, driving, looking at the cars zipping by and realizing I, quite literally, have to get up to speed. Boggles my mind. Had to hang out in the right lane for a while until I got the hang of driving again.

Heat wave continues. It stormed yesterday but it did not help with the heat.

Omicron isn't all that bad. Quite a bit less severe than H1N1 or H3N2. Sorta an odd illness, really. At least for someone around 40 (not young; not old), relatively healthy and fit. For me: mostly a head-cold like illness, slight warmth, slight nausea on and off, slight headache, some fogginess of the mind (it's usually there anyway), and some fatigue (that's also there anyway). Tinnitus seems louder, though. Oh, I can't smell.

Sorta the same for my mother in her early 60s, who's not young, but not real old. She's also got severe autoimmune neurological and peripheral nerve disorders. Which apparently aren't as bad right now, and that makes complete sense if the immune system is mobilized against a foreign invader over attacking the host. She has similar. The louder tinnitus too. Her eyes are red, though.

It seems like if your immune system is functional, it stops it from getting to your lungs to an appreciable amount, which is generally the key to stopping a respiratory infection from going bad.

No vaccinations for either of us. Totally immune naive.

Busy store yet again.

My back and shoulders are definitely stronger. Abdominal muscles too. Belly rolls more fluid. Paddling six hours a day will do that.

I needed to find out if I could actually do the trip I’m planning, and it appears I can. No trouble to portage the canoe; with portage yoke it weighs 45-1/2 pounds. Had a more difficult time with the pack. At 31 pounds it felt heavier than the canoe. I suspect it has to do with weight distribution and balance. I’ll be working on adjusting loading and straps to improve.

Several gear adjustments need to be made. Leave in four weeks. Not much time to complete all.

It will be three trip portages, though, with 3 weeks of gear/food. I was fantasizing getting it down to two trips.

Dill, are you saying you both have omicron? Holding both in the Light.

Yeah, but it's fine, thanks. Just an odd cold for both of us in the end, and my mother, even if feeling somewhat ill (just the illness on top of everything else), is doing well 5 days after symptom onset. No cough, which is what you look for, meaning there'll be no chance of the downward spiral around day 7-8 (that needs appreciable lung infiltration). I'm kinda hoping it may induce immune amnesia for her (there's a theory about such and SARS-CoV-2), which may "cure" some of her autoimmune conditions; I know of one person it happened to.

Which is a good thing for most humans in the end. Even if endemic and with us forever, it looks like Omicron is fairly innocuous if your immune system is functional, and treatments are getting better for those who will be susceptible to severe disease. Outside of Long Covid stuff, but both of us have marked fatigue anyway, so lol.

Thank you. I hope you both continue to do well. It would be wonderful if the infection reversed some of the autoimmune issues. Still holding in the Light. Take care.

Thanks, blazingstar. Hoping all is well for you. Light always helps us find our way, no matter how bright or dim.

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Sorta funny that my mother is less symptomatic than everyone she knows. I guess irony tends to do things like that. Guess she's got good genes, there was some bats with similar coronaviruses in Wales thousands of years ago or something.

Haven't really done any hiking the past week, sadly. I guess next week. Mostly just walking up and down the road (council did their own breaking up of fallen branches, albeit chainsaws; they left behind a traffic cone that's still there weeks later), which to be fair, is still at a somewhat steep incline. I like walking up to the top of the mountain that way and looking at the city way off in the distance. Something like 50 kilometers as the crow flies. With good eyesight you can pick out the skyscrapers, but it's a haze to me, so I just use the zoom on the camera.

Much cooler today