It happened - I finally got Covid. Aches, shakes, brain fog, coughing and spluttering. By all accounts it was a very mild case. I see how it wrecked the more unlucky people. Two days of flu-like symptoms, a further seven days of congestion. Back at work now, it passed quickly once the peak was hit - but the brain fog remains. As well as the running out of energy immediately. Weightlifting 4-5 times a week? Oh no no, now you struggle to get the rubbish bins in. It's coming right though. Plus side, my employer has Covid leave baked into the system, everyone is allowed up to 10 days a year before dipping into your sick or annual leave. It's certainly nice to have it up my sleeve. It's two weeks out from the NZ election and this year has been one of the more tiresome campaigns. Lots of shit people lying to everyone. I'm gonna cast my vote as progressively as I can and hope enough people feel the same. I suspect we will have a shift in government though, from 'left' to 'right'. It won't impact me directly, not a huge amount, but the people that I'm trying to protect with my vote will be all the more vulnerable.
Sympathies from across the Tasman, both in regard to the brain fog and the abysmal political discourse - that latter of which we are dealing with over here, as well.
second shift of Job tomorrow; first one went alright i think antidepressants haven't been pulling their weight so i think i need to get them switched out again ai ya yai
Happy hardest puzzle-a-day day to all who celebrate. mike Still going on the app with three solutions every day since December 1.
Is it worth it to pay for Duolingo? I started using it to learn Spanish for no reason than to have something mildly productive to do with my phone.
I believe you can still activate Duolingo for schools ('make classroom' or something like that) and get the benefits for free. By benefits I mean: no ads, unlimited re-tries, and no cost to final tests ('legendary' just sounds stupid). That said, Duolingo is better at supplementing learning than teaching. It explains next to no grammar, so it's worth to look-up lessons on duome (already found you Spanish) or other sites. Personally, after finishing a couple languages there, I went from being a huge fan to seeing it as jumped-up flash cards. Also, there are many, many stupid sentences inserted there solely because they're easily meme-able and act as free advertising. For instance, their Latin course consists mostly of sentences about drunken parrots. In day-to-day living language situations, Duo is more useful than "angry drunken parrot stole urbane young man's cookie" is to studying classics, but I wouldn't want to imply or suggest it's more usefull than taking an actual class.