To be honest.. I’m writing this from the comfortable distance of 4 days.  By Monday evening I was feeling pretty sick. After nearly 3 years of thinking about Covid… I finally got to experience it.. and it wasn’t fun. I would say I had a moderate case… I had high fever, chills, sore throat and cough…and  I completely loss my sense of taste. If it wasn’t so yucky.. i’d say it was pretty interesting. I was kinda zoned out most of the day.. but Diane, Gabe a  (and nova and sequoia)  took really good care of me. Sam was still sick.. but feeling a little better today ..   

Thanks to help from my friends back in VT I was able to get a script for  the antiviral paxlovid , I dont know if it helped.. but it was sure fun reading the small novel it came with regarding precautions. 

I spent the day pretty pleasantly spacing out.. .. looking at all the stuff I could see from the bed or the couch. Loved these two pics. .. 

To be honest.. I kinda like being zoned out for a little while

… bt only for a little while

 

note all, note sam

-me

By the end of the evening last night.. I wasn’t feeling that great.. in hind sight I noticed my food was tasting kinda weird. I woke this morning with a sore throat… and pretty much knew what was up. I took a covid test.. 

I finally had covid.. after not getting it for the last 2 and a half years it sort of felt like a relief to have it (almost) behind me. 

I felt a little creepy.. but not so bad  I couldn’t hike. We took a really nice and muddy walk at the 1000 acre dog park.   Gabe used it as a chance to collect some icky water samples to look at under the microscope

 

Only bummer of having covid is that I cant go visit my mom and sister tomorrow as planned. We’re going to stay here a few more days then travel straight back to Burlington.  I’ll have to reschedule my trip to go see them soon

OK.. time for bed.. 

nite all. nite sam

-me

Not Chocolate Lab.. but Chocolate.. then Lab.. we all went out to a place that had supposedly the best drinking chocolate in Portland. It was wonderful. The roast the beans then mix the chocolate.. we also had flights of both dark and mil chocolate to sample. what a treat !

 

In the afternoon, Gabe and I went to his lab because he had some tests to do.. it was SO cool seeing all the stuff he works with.. engineered plasmids, retroviruses, automated synthesis and sequencing.. its like sci-fi !. 

We headed home and started to set up the microscope… We made a workstation for it in the basement.. we got the optics all reinstalled, switched on the illuminator and started looking at stuff.. so amazing !

 

We went out for middle eastern at night..

Sam didn’t go because she wasn’t feeling well. during dinner she called to tell us she’d tested positive for covid…. .. uh-oh ! We took her some food Hope she’s feeling better soon !
nite all. nite sam

 

-me

Nice slow day here.. We did some stuff around gabe house..including fixing some plumbing and the lights in the basement. Was nice to feel useful 🙂 . Tonight we drove down to meet gabe at work… then walked up to see the Portland Light festival. its a spread out festival of cool interactive light up art. Just my speed !  There was some really nice stuff there.. including some nice fire pieces

 

We picked up great Thai food on the way home.. Yum…

nite all, nite sam

-me