Yesterday I got my second covid jab. The experience was significantly
better than the first. The first time took 3 hours and was chaotic.
This time I was in and out within 25 minutes, 15 of which were the
mandatory waiting time at the end and at least 5 minutes were
wondering where I had to go. I feel a bit urrgghhhh today but that
might also involve the return to work after 3 weeks off. I deserve to
moan and groan about nothingness.
One issue with having a company phone is that I know what my week
looks like already. I do not regularly check the phone. It has been a
source of morbid curiousity to see how many e-mails there are and I
have opened only 5. Mostly because they involved a hydrogen pump
concept which is technically fascinating and programme-wise
devastating. Also, I have a habit of checking e-mails on the sunday
before I return to dampen the blow of the unexpected. I have always
preferred hitting the ground running with understanding if it is going
to be a terrible Monday or not. I never really action those e-mails
until the Monday at least.
So today has been spent with the radio and ebooks. BBC 6music have a
cracking series of programmes on a Sunday so I can leave the radio
going without worrying about hitting nonsense which jars and disrupts
the slow day. I finished reading Arthur C Clarke's Childhoods End. It
is a slightly hard to get into book but well worth the effort. I was
probably not in the right mind for reading at the start though so it
might be easier to get into than I think. I have phases where I read
voraciously and where I avoid reading anything beyond web articles.
All depends where the mind is I suppose. Slow Sundays are almost
always conducive to reading at least a chapter though. Later on will
involve a transition to Anonradio instead of 6music. Well 6music
starts a thematic listener show but it tends to be light on the
interesting, new and enlightening selections I get from Anonradio. All
nice things to savour in the last hours of my leave period.
