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bunnyhugger tested negative today, as we'd expected. We're both more than five days from the onset of symptoms and took our Paxlovid as prescribed. The only lingering symptom we have yet is coughing. I expect this is going to last a while; when I get a cold, I have a cough from it that lingers for about five years, so this should be fun.
But it's an ill wind: because I am still coughing my boss said to work from home this week as well as last. I'm happy to work from home as long as I possibly can and have not told my boss about how I reasonably expect to be coughing from this through to 2028. Still, this is very convenient since it means bunnyhugger won't have to drive me in to work tomorrow just to have a car free for her dental appointment. (Her car is still in the shop.)
In other health news: I have a scheduled colonoscopy appointment, and the time off for it. The preparatory material warns that I shouldn't go back to work afterwards, and while that's probably meant for people who do physical labor I imagine I might not be in a productive state of affairs anyway. I plan to stay on the couch and be a potato. Also, since the appointment needs me in their office at 9:30, this means I have to take off by 9 am at the latest. I asked, then, to take off from 9 am through 4:30 pm and my boss was a bit unclear why I wanted to bother with one hour at work. Well, it's a work-from-home day, so I might as well spend it with my laptop open as not. Also, yes, I'm trying to underscore that I do like this job and want to keep doing it. We'll see if that sticks.
And meanwhile: I also got approval for time off, the first week of July, for our big roller coaster trip of the year! So I've got a bunch of undersized paychecks coming up ahead but that's all right, I feel okay about my savings. Other than that I have to buy a new laptop as mine is getting way too kernel-panicky. But even with that, I'm feeling better about things overall.
Now let's get back to pictures of Pinball At The Zoo, admittedly not our cheeriest moment as we were long done competing while other people were not:
Prizes and merchandise of uncertain purpose left on one of the tables by the tournament area. I assume at least some of this was stuff people were giving away --- there's flyers for The Godfather pinball machine, for example, and the Stern hat and stuff inside looks like prizes --- but I can't explain the Led Zeppelin playfield there.
Rush showing that bunnyhugger could play a very good game on it now and then, possibly because of an understanding with the bunny in the backglass. (Lower right corner, peeking out of the top hat. I assume it's a Rush album cover thing.)
Trophies headed for the people playing at the highest levels that day.
The game banks! To balance things out players couldn't just pick any old game in finals; they had to pick one of these sets of three, ensuring that whoever won had to play across a variety of games and also that not every group was lined up to play the same tables.
Explanation of where the funds raised go, as well as a house rule about what happens if you are AJG and have a supernatural ability to discover bonkers combinations of shots that you alone know how to make and that give you MAXINT points. AJG did not play.
Folks sitting off out of the play area, watching the streamers themselves watching play.
Trivia: Daniel Defoe is known to have published under at least 198 pseudonyms, among them Count Kidney Face, Obadiah Blue Hat, and the Man In The Moon. Source: Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar, Duncan Steel. (Also, for that matter, 'Daniel Defoe'; his birth name was 'Daniel Foe'.)
Currently Reading: Cool Comfort: America's Romance with Air-Conditioning, Marsha E Ackermann.
