My Beloved was going to whisk me away for fun times and shopping and so on. BUT MeMum needs fuel for her mower, so offski I poddle on that mission. We might even get to clear the air on some issues between us.
[I didn't want to do that alone but... circumstances are beyond my control]
With luck and good fortune and a LOT of patience -most likely on my part- we might get back to amiable circumstances.
Sigh.
Onwards to story, then to don clothes and poddle off.
Wish me luck.
Remember Beloved's crook tum? Turns out she's been throwing up what looks like blood for three days.
FUN.
We tried calling 13SICK, no medics available. Tried booking at the local quack - two appointments immediately, and the plague protocols meant we'd have to ring in. By which time the two remaining appointments would be GONE.
...hi ho hi ho, off to the hospital we had to go...
The hospital is currently under rennos. So first we had to locate the dang carpark.
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...at least some numbers are going down.
Vax news:
Thanks to Clive
Read more »Plague news: Thirteen new cases, all local transmission. One hundred and forty-four total cases [that's a gross for the numerically uninitiated], seventy are in hospital and one's in the ICU.
Plague brain's got me taking writing lightly and that's okay. Most of my energy is going towards worrying about the firkin deadly disease going around everywhere and WHY are people STILL being dickheads about firkin basic safety precautions?
Sigh.
If Covid was a firkin serial killer you can bet everyone would be
Read more »Plague news: TWENTY new cases. One local, nineteen imports. I breathe a little easier knowing these numbers. All the same. Yikes time.
There are Aussie expats so desperate to get back on these sunny shores that they are considering becoming boat people. Have fun in out Dang Foreigner Concentration Camps Detention Facilities, folks.
I have the usual array of words to write and stuff, but I have been lagging behind when it comes to tagging the fics in the app. So. Today,
Read more »Plague news: Five new cases, all imports. Twenty-six total cases, nineteen in hospital and one in the ICU.
Tomorrow, I talk to the local quack about getting the Jab. The stuff for my age bracket versus my asthma, maybe also versus Beloved's diabetes. And the best time bracket to get the kids' jabs too.
I'm thinking start of school hols for Miss Chaos so we can all keep an eye on her. Dunno about Mayhem. Possibly ASAP, knowing the way of things.
Read more »Plague news: one new case, an import. Thirty-one total cases, twenty seven in hospital, two in the ICU.
I now have a replacement for the marble run that we broke on Miss Chaos though incompetence and mishandling. The trick now is to find enough time to make it in one sitting. Possibly on my own. I deserve the thumb pain for ruining Miss Chaos' chosen prize.
I still have to call the local quack about getting my Plague Jab. Today's the day
Read more »Plague news: One local transmission, zero imports. Twenty-seven total cases and twenty-six of those are in hospital.
...yaaaayyy...
I need to poddle along to a Chemists and get myself some saline for the nebuliser because I am almost out of the dang stuff.
The F-key on my keyboard keeps popping off and I may have to get a new keyboard at some point. Depends on how annoying this gets in my future.
Today: house unfuckening, 500 words, and the daily instant. If
Read more »Three new cases, all imports. Twenty total cases, seventeen of them in hospital and -given the precedent- three about to go in. Miss Chaos is coming home this afternoon and I am hoping that there's no trouble. I may even be vulnerable to telescammers because I am on call just in case the camping people want to know a thing about Chaos and her needs.
I've got The Bikkie on, and am about to arrange some moolah for myself from my accumulated
Read more »All seventeen active cases are in hospital, and Miss Chaos is off to camp despite an illness that had her home during yesterday. Antihistamines helped, and so did some steam during the night.
Considering that I'm a "cotton wool" parental, it is a measure of my internal strength that I am not a ball of nerves as a direct result. Time will tell.
In the news:
Three new cases, one domestic and two imported. Seventy-four active, all of them are in hospital, and two of them are in the ICU. This now reveals that my math has been off about everything this entire time. Yay.
Ugh. At least I've learned that those in ICU are a subset of those in hospital.
Still not looking at the news. The lockdown and global shenanigans combined to make me sleep a lot because anxiety and depression can synergise like that. I
Read more »Brisbane, and perhaps the greater portion of Southeast Queensland, has been locked down for three days. I got this news in the afternoon of yesterday. Ten new cases this morning, four of them local. Seventy-three total active cases, sixty-three in hospital, and two in the ICU. That means eight people are stuck in a well-furnished box and bingeing Netflix or whatever.
I... am trying my hardest not to spiral into my previous lockdown mood, which was huddling in the bedroom and seeking
Read more »According to the government, there's seven new cases and the news is a new local transmission. I heard ten cases yesterday afternoon, but I have to trust the official sources.
Sixty-nine total cases [not nice], sixty-two in hospital, two in the ICU... and five remaining in captivity. It's hard to not panic.
Case 0 is in Stafford and has been communicable for a week. The alert is out for the Brisbane and Moreton City areas, so not in my or MeMum's neck
Read more »Only one new case today, and the active cases have dropped to thirty-six. A little bit of relief, but definitely not enough. The new case could be one for the history books, but that's awaiting tests to be certain. So here I stay, under my firkin rock.
My phone's newsfeed has been going off about how Hollywood has decided to come to Sunny Queensland and other Aussie destinations so they can do plague-free filming. I can only hope that every single one
Read more »Two new cases from overseas, taking the total to twenty-six. We're approaching critical mass for the One Arsehole Theory. There's also a potential for a Karen from across the waters to find a way to bypass security and bring an even more virulent strain into our sunburned land.
Last I heard about things, Queensland -and then the rest of Australia- is reducing the number of people from overseas allowed to come in.
I am enacting some PLNs to get back into arts
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