So the thinkable happened. I got COVID. 2nd time. Thankfully I got the latest vaccine a month ago, so it’s not as bad as it could’ve been. Fatigue set in on Thursday, then throat-sinus inflammation that night, and then by Friday morning, full blown aches, fever, swimming vision, and testing hot. Fever broke this morning, …
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My love life is over.
Cluster Bomb
Dear Diary: I feel like I should be angrier than I am, but all I feel is mute resignation. The major hailstorm tonight found my car in good condition. It is no longer in good condition. Judging from the three holes in the tempered glass, and the four dents on the trunk lid, the hailstone …
Snoop de Whoop
In a recent blog post I bemoaned how Duolingo’s streak gaming system has become something of a death march, how it’s an unavoidable slog, and how eventually I’ll be jumping off that treadmill so I can enjoy life and enjoy learning German instead of breathlessly trying to rip out a 3 minute lesson before midnight …
Ephesus
In school, the prof teaching my “Intro to the C Language” course, Dr. H, really took the “Baptist” part of OBU to heart. The final project was that he would hand us a text file, a book from the New Testament, and we were to write a C program to generate a concordance (an index) …