Gestern:
Kein Alkohol.
Viel Input durch Gespräche.
Länger wach gewesen, als üblich.
Zu viel Zucker.
Nur eine recht kurze Lärmbelastung durch Feuerwerk.

Heute:
Kopfschmerzen
Müdigkeit
#Fatique
Brain fog
Antriebslosigkeit
Als hätte ich die ganze Nacht durchgesoffen und gefeiert. 😵😵‍💫

#LongCovid #PostCovid

Good morning. 🐶☕💻

14 October 2025

I’m back on my big machine, which makes it easier to pump out a proper morning greeting. Charlie is home—yay! I bailed him out yesterday afternoon. While waiting in the holding area, I sat reading on my phone, half-lost in the scroll. Then I looked up and saw Charlie dashing toward me, dragging a young lady behind him. Well… there would have been dashing and dragging if the floor hadn’t been so smooth. As it was, his legs were dashing, but his momentum was being politely restrained by the young lady at the other end of the leash.

Once we got home and unloaded the car, I took the rest of the day off. I was wiped out after being hustled from one place to another during our visit. The food was good—expensive, too. I learned that other people don’t operate on my timeline. Dinner was always in the later part of the evening and always about an hour away from wherever we happened to be. The name of the game: higher-end restaurants.

My wife did more hustling than I did. The International Quilt Show was in Houston, so she and her sisters had to go. And after the quilt show came shopping—hurray 😢.

I still don’t understand the whole wandering-around-and-shopping thing. I tend to shop like a sniper—quick, precise, in and out. My wife shops like a cartographer, mapping every rack for signs of treasure. I admire the stamina, even if I don’t share the calling.

“Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.” — Erma Bombeck

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott

“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing—it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.” — Fulton J. Sheen

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