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nosrednaydujHere, have a blort. I've been thinking I've been boring, but my boring is actually pretty interesting. There's been a bunch of waterskiing; we tried to get up on the knee board at a separate time, but it seemed like I'm missing some body part involving core strength to succeed in that, so I didn't try for very long, not wanting to break some unrelated body part.
Our summer house guest will be leaving on Sunday at oh dark thirty. I decided that I would rather spend money than get up early, and so I made him get Uber on his phone and we have reserved one and paid for it with my credit card. It's been entertaining being fed wild mushrooms – he is a big mushroom hunter – but I don't think I'm going to continue with that plan after he leaves. Also, he's a vegetarian, and I'm a little bit missing meat. I'm not a big meat eater, but there are a couple of dishes that I make with meat that I haven't had in a while.
We are getting ready to go to Germany. (They will feed us meat there.) Ken has a conference, and he is going with Valerie for the weekend before, and then I will join him for the weekend after, and we will go (not making this up) to a square dance convention. We will also randomly take the train to places and be tourists. I have selected the towns of Lorsch where there is an abbey which has at least one brick that still remains from the year 746 (and other tourist trap things) and the other town is Aschaffenburg where there is Johannisburg Palace. It seems like there's kind of a castle desert around Frankfurt, so there weren't that many that were train accessible and moderately close. Probably it will be cool, even though it is of a kind of blocky square design rather than Cinderella kind of castle design, because there will be nifty things inside. Anyway, we will pay our 9 euros and like it!
We think we've figured out how to buy tickets on the train. Ken and Valerie are leaving at oh dark thirty on Thursday for a flight to London, where they will stay overnight, and then make their way to Frankfurt the next day. They have some plan about all day boat ride down the Rhine. Not wanting to be left out, I have a plan about a one-hour boat ride on the Main. I will be leaving the following Thursday, but I'm having an overnight flight, which I mostly hate, but decided not to spend the extra time and many hundreds of dollars going through London. So instead I have arranged that I will be able to check into my hotel in the morning when I arrive and hopefully get some sleep, and then I will mainline penguin caffeine mints when I get up so that I will be perky for square dancing. Ken will join me after the conference ends. The conference is in the town of Mainz, which is an hour away; the square dance is in Frankfurt itself.
Ken and Valerie will be taking a car to the airport, and I'm going to go get it on the train, and then come back via Perry's college, where he is having his last class of summer semester. He has one final, which he will commute to on the train; everything else is projects. So I will pick up him and all of his junk. In the fall he is supposed to have a co-op job; he applied for many but regular jobs were not calling him back.
However, there is apparently some professor at the university who has some projects that kids can work on for their co-op time if they fail to get a job job.
On top of all this, I seem to be sick. I had some very mild upper G.I. symptoms yesterday afternoon and evening, and then I slept really well, and then in the morning I was slightly off but mostly fine, but by 2 PM I was really feeling bad with lower G.I. symptoms. So I took my temperature and I had a fever. Which I thought was weird. I haven't been anywhere. I went to the bank on Saturday morning where I spoke to a teller for a few minutes, and I wore a mask the entire time. Other than that, I have been riding my bicycle places and working from home. So I just have no idea how I could be sick, unless it's something I ate, but nobody else is having issues. And usually you don't have a fever with bad food.
Hopefully I will feel better in the morning. And really hopefully I will feel better by Thursday when I have to go do this airport plan. Also, there's a meeting with the customer tomorrow at 11 AM, so I hope I'm able to take that call.
Our summer house guest will be leaving on Sunday at oh dark thirty. I decided that I would rather spend money than get up early, and so I made him get Uber on his phone and we have reserved one and paid for it with my credit card. It's been entertaining being fed wild mushrooms – he is a big mushroom hunter – but I don't think I'm going to continue with that plan after he leaves. Also, he's a vegetarian, and I'm a little bit missing meat. I'm not a big meat eater, but there are a couple of dishes that I make with meat that I haven't had in a while.
We are getting ready to go to Germany. (They will feed us meat there.) Ken has a conference, and he is going with Valerie for the weekend before, and then I will join him for the weekend after, and we will go (not making this up) to a square dance convention. We will also randomly take the train to places and be tourists. I have selected the towns of Lorsch where there is an abbey which has at least one brick that still remains from the year 746 (and other tourist trap things) and the other town is Aschaffenburg where there is Johannisburg Palace. It seems like there's kind of a castle desert around Frankfurt, so there weren't that many that were train accessible and moderately close. Probably it will be cool, even though it is of a kind of blocky square design rather than Cinderella kind of castle design, because there will be nifty things inside. Anyway, we will pay our 9 euros and like it!
We think we've figured out how to buy tickets on the train. Ken and Valerie are leaving at oh dark thirty on Thursday for a flight to London, where they will stay overnight, and then make their way to Frankfurt the next day. They have some plan about all day boat ride down the Rhine. Not wanting to be left out, I have a plan about a one-hour boat ride on the Main. I will be leaving the following Thursday, but I'm having an overnight flight, which I mostly hate, but decided not to spend the extra time and many hundreds of dollars going through London. So instead I have arranged that I will be able to check into my hotel in the morning when I arrive and hopefully get some sleep, and then I will mainline penguin caffeine mints when I get up so that I will be perky for square dancing. Ken will join me after the conference ends. The conference is in the town of Mainz, which is an hour away; the square dance is in Frankfurt itself.
Ken and Valerie will be taking a car to the airport, and I'm going to go get it on the train, and then come back via Perry's college, where he is having his last class of summer semester. He has one final, which he will commute to on the train; everything else is projects. So I will pick up him and all of his junk. In the fall he is supposed to have a co-op job; he applied for many but regular jobs were not calling him back.
However, there is apparently some professor at the university who has some projects that kids can work on for their co-op time if they fail to get a job job.
On top of all this, I seem to be sick. I had some very mild upper G.I. symptoms yesterday afternoon and evening, and then I slept really well, and then in the morning I was slightly off but mostly fine, but by 2 PM I was really feeling bad with lower G.I. symptoms. So I took my temperature and I had a fever. Which I thought was weird. I haven't been anywhere. I went to the bank on Saturday morning where I spoke to a teller for a few minutes, and I wore a mask the entire time. Other than that, I have been riding my bicycle places and working from home. So I just have no idea how I could be sick, unless it's something I ate, but nobody else is having issues. And usually you don't have a fever with bad food.
Hopefully I will feel better in the morning. And really hopefully I will feel better by Thursday when I have to go do this airport plan. Also, there's a meeting with the customer tomorrow at 11 AM, so I hope I'm able to take that call.
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Date: 2023-08-08 05:38 pm (UTC)The positive test incidence of influenza this summer in the US is about 1%, so the people who are convinced that they have flu and not Covid are generally incorrect.
Safe travels.
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Date: 2023-08-08 11:07 pm (UTC)