Yup. I was fine on Saturday, woke up dizzy and feverish on Sunday, then less mental fog on Monday but still with the heat. Fever symptoms broke on Monday night.
How was the second shot for your wife?
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She had a fever by the time she got home from work (she got here at work around 10am). Was basically immobile for all of Saturday. Sunday was fog but functional. She suffers from migraines, so that lingered into Tuesday.
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I just got my second Pfizer. Before my heart surgery I was very prone to migraines. 
that they don’t make a return appearance.
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Good luck!
I get Pfizer #2 Sunday!
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I got the Janssen vaccine from my university before they paused it. I only had light soreness for a couple days and then I was all good. One and done!
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I got a yoga buddy 
Both of us started the year saying we’re were going to do yoga frequently, both of us failed. We have now joined forces and agreed a time 3 times a week.
Session 3 this evening.
I really need to remember that when I’m helping someone or I have someone to do a thing with, I’m much more likely to do it.
So yay yoga buddy!
On another note it turns out karma has come for me.
We suspect my partner has low blood pressure, but he has a somewhat meh attitude to health and seeing the dr. Got a friend to bring round his blood pressure machine so we could semi bully my partner with some results that prove the suspicion. Playing around with it he gets slightly high but okish results, mine… I might be off the chart 
NHS website doesn’t even bother giving me a rating and says call the Dr facepalm
So we’ve ordered our own machine and I’m going to spend the next week recording my blood pressure to present to the Dr
Fingers crossed it’s just a 1 off result, unfortunately having had a couple high blood pressure symptoms paraded in front of me, I suspect it’s not 
Oh well, at least I’m looking forward to yoga this evening.
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Thankfully, we’ve finally reached a mostly-consistent warm temperature, and I’m trying to take 2 walks a day now. I’m also trying to get back into an additional strength-building regimen via darebee. I’ve tried getting into the darebee workouts before, but found that my day-to-day schedule wasn’t always consistent and trying to do a strictly 30-day challenge wasn’t feasible because missing a day left me really discouraged and I’d end up letting it slip altogether. So I’ve given myself some new, more forgiving, guidelines.
- If I have to go to my lab on campus (a completely walking commute), that checks the day off completely
- If I have my zoom dance rehearsal, I try to take a lunchtime walk as well
- If don’t have dance and I’m not going to campus, I try to do a lunch walk and a dinner walk, with the strength exercise after the lunch walk
- Weekends I give myself a lot more flexibility. I try to take one walk a day, but I don’t really put any pressure on doing the strength exercises - the only place in my home that really has enough space for it is the living room/my office off the living room that doesn’t have any doors and I don’t feel comfortable doing my routine where my roommate would see me.
I’ve also been making some good progress in addressing some really awful sleep problems that cropped up last summer and were really bad through the end of 2020. I do an hour of blue light a day, right after I wake up (sitting outside in the real sunlight if possible, but most weekdays I can’t convince myself to take that hour away from some sort of work task so I have a lamp that I use at my desk). I’ve also gotten a weighted blanket, which has been really nice. The one I wanted (and ended up getting) was really expensive, so I let it sit in my budget for almost a year before buying it, but I love it so so so much.
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Time to resurrect another topic! 
My work (my main work) announced a walking challenge that has teams going around the US to a bunch of spooky places from the 4th through Halloween.
It also said that participants don’t have to be affiliated with them.
I was thinking about making a Mountie team, if anyone might be interested? (Leaning toward something along the lines of SH Ghost Crabs, or Spirits Stony Harbor, something like that)
Any takers?
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I’m down! I walk a lot every day anyway so it’s a great way to put my commute to work.
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Excellent!
And reading through the rules, looks like teams want to be at least four people, so halfway there!
Oh, what about AGP Nightmare Buddies?
Edit: just made the AGP Nightmare Buddies team, so it’s selectable if anyone else hops in. 
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Team isn’t currently showing up. I’ll check back tomorrow.
I’m game to join but it does want a campus… Any suggestions as to which one I should select?
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I think it has an “other” option? If that doesn’t work, Gainesville should be fine since that’s where the invite’s coming from.
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I’d totally join but this would finish before I start the job that requires me to walk a lot, lol. Wouldn’t be much help I’m afraid.
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I poked around a bit to see what sort of step count there was for this, and it looks like 8k steps/day for the whole team (which I apparently covered and then some during my shift earlier today 
).
I have no doubt that we’d get to see all the spooky sights.
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Yeah I did 7k yesterday, we’ve got this covered.
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Definitely going to give it a look…I’m back to walking more now that I have my office back and I’m going to campus!
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On an average week day I manage about 1500, but I’m trying to improve that.
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I’ll look back at this later maybe (here’s incentive to remind me) because I really feel the need to walk more and also I’m probably getting into a position where I’ll walk much more in a couple of weeks
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Today in top tips for improving your step count.
Do a late night(12pm) dive to town to get milk from the mechanical cow. (Doesn’t sound like a top tip but there’s more!)
On the way home, have your brake caliper make a bid for freedom and attempt to machine through your wheel, leaving you broken down at the side of a national limit twisty unmarked road with no phone signal.
Walk up and down the road hunting that 1 square inch of signal to call breakdown. Check on the car then go hunt that mythical signal spot again, which has now vanished, so go further down the road to find another.
Home safe car limped to a safe layby awaiting recovery whenever the local recovery guys have time. Luckily they organised us a taxi home.
But yay 3283 steps recorded at a time when I’d normally be in bed.
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