Oct. 4, 22: Routine, Tough Night, Beginning Recovery, Teaching, TV...

Dammit! Another seriously rough night tonight. Got a pretty solid three hours between eight and midnight, but got up from the snoring and wicked back pain. I guess it’s what they call “flank” pain…like my kidneys were screaming or something. Hurt like hell and I couldn’t find a comfortable position sitting, standing, or lying down. 😢

Was more or less up, suffering, until four or so. In the interim I took a shower and the hot water helped a little with the muscle cramping higher up, but only a little. I watched some YouTube videos and eventually fell back to sleep for maybe an hour or so.

I’m not sure if it was my kidneys from all the painkillers or just my tummy being upset from not eating and being sick, dunno, but my tummy was/is definitely messed up now…and I’m getting weird effects like blurry vision and cramps in my legs.

Still, I only took one painkiller at around three in the morning and that was it for the whole day. My temperature is still running a bit high, but the fever is gone and now it’s mostly just the fatigue…body’s been working hard the last few days!

I did finally realize why, in my half-sleep, I felt like there were layers of pain and when I got past one layer there was another…my sinuses were burning like hell and painful and then my skin was hurting and sensitive from the fever. Took me a while to figure out what that sensation was…pain on top of pain.

Anyway, it was seriously nasty, but I’m starting to come out of it officially. Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Zinc, and Ibuprofen…up yours Big Pharma! 🖕

I’ve started to recover my taste a little bit as well. That was an odd experience. I could taste sour and bitter and burn (like salsa) but not sweet really at all and flavors were more just a vague hint…pretty much ruined my coffee, that more or less tasted like dirty hot water. 😢

My appetite is starting to return as well and I had a bowl of cereal and a ham sandwich today. Not great, but I only sort of had to force it down.

I was a bit worried about teaching today (not for safety - it’s remote, so no issue there) that I may not have the energy and if I did it would drain me out. It did take a little toll, but not that bad.

Spent some of the afternoon getting ready for class and then met at the usual time. We’re getting seriously behind schedule, though, which is another worry, but I don’t want to just blast through the material for the sake of covering it at the expense of their understanding where these things are coming from and what they mean…I could focus more on the mechanics and less on the theory (and they’d be able to solve the problems/do the math) but they wouldn’t have any clue why or what’s actually going on (which makes the skills basically impossible to apply to a new situation).

We looked at the differential again and I showed them both a geometric and an algebraic derivation and then we looked at multi variable chain rules. Finished up a couple minutes early and then basically just got ready for bed. Watched some Golden Girls until falling asleep around ten or so.

I had high hopes of actually getting my steps in for today with teaching in the evening, but it wasn’t quite enough. I don’t have a streak on the line or anything, so I just left it, figured it’s best not to push it too hard right away.

Well, dShitty has continued to get shittier as far as income. We’re now down to three stated and nineteen actual without any additional shitinations. I was amazed, though, that they paid out WEED today, so I suppose that’s something.

So far so good as far as my Ego goes on Rising Star. It’s still at zero and no drunk fans for once, so missions it is. How many more years until I unlock the next mission (the leveling system is poorly designed and leads to ever decreasing returns on investment…it also fails to fulfill the one main goal of any game: seratonin bump, let alone earning much of anything)?!

I’m pretty sure the seeds are dead now on HashKings. Left it too long. 🎶 I don’t want to wait in vain for your BUDS 🎶…too late. 😛

The idea of playing Splinterlands didn’t even cross my mind today. Looks like I got excluded from a second brawl in a row as well, not sure why, but I guess I’m not even obligated to play that much, so fine…oh, wait, no this is only the next one, never mind.

Decided to keep my SPS interest (which is about the extent of my interest in this at the current juncture) liquid for the day. I still haven’t swapped what I moved out the other day, but I’ve staked the last couple days, so time to start saving up again.

Just letting the vouchers build up again. Been a while since I checked them, actually, might be time to move some more out.

Got my stats for last week and I have to say I was really surprised they weren’t worse than they are! I guess I was able to get a solid walk in on Saturday before the plague struck me. I did, also, for the first time ever I think, get a sleep average of eight hours!! 😯 Did a lot more sleeping in the meantime, so we’ll see what happens next week…as far as activity, it’s going to be one of the lowest weeks yet. 😢