David Gillon

Still dealing with this sinus bug, which shows no signs of going away (Day 13) , but is showing some signs of flirting with upsetting my stomach. On the positive side it's stopped affecting my inner ear. Just wish I had a little more energy.

I have actually had a Covid test, but that was pure coincidence as the ONS Covid survey turned up again on Monday - I was doing a test monthly, but hadn't heard from them since April. I initially signed up for a year and April was the end of the year so I just assumed that was that, but apparently it was some glitch and not only are they continuing but they want me to sign up for finger prick testing as well. I said yes, though ISTR I'm appallingly bad at sticking things into myself - intentionally at least. Based on prior experience it'll be at least another week before I get the result of the Covid test as the ONS tests are the lowest priority.

To go along with the wintry feeling of having a cold, temperatures also plummeted in the middle of last week, we were almost in single figures for the solstice, and it's only just climbed back up to 21C today (I'm not convinced).

My sister has also had a couple of narrow squeaks with Covid. She was asked to supervise another class at her school over lunchtime, said no, and that class promptly had an outbreak, pupil plus teacher, so are now isolating - one of the other local schools reportedly only has a single year group attending. On top of that they were due to pick up a cocker spaniel puppy from the breeder on Friday, but got a call on Tuesday to say "I've got Covid". They were offered the chance of being handed the puppy over the fence by his wife, but decided that, given they're both clinically extremely  vulnerable, several times over in my brother-in-law's case, they'll delay pickup for a week, by which time it should be clear if the puppy has caught it (though as far as I know we've only seen human to canine transmission, not vice versa).

Keyboard komplikations kontinue. Last week's Windows update took out the USB's ability to recognise keyboards again, and not even deleting the USB hub driver fixed it. Fortunately switching it from back USB to front USB did. And then I came into the room today to find that the half-drunk cup of hot apple and blackcurrant I'd left beside it last night had mysteriously upended itself into the keyboard overnight. Amazingly every key is still working - advantages of a mechanical keyboard. OTOH even after wiping them down, some of them were still rather sticky. Ick,