I have a meeting in less than an hour where I have to present stuff so I panicked and decided to post this instead. hbu?

edit: meeting got delayed but should start in 5-10 mins. Also, I’m no longer in my underwear.

  • SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today
    14·
    7 days ago

    Also, I’m no longer in my underwear.

    I was nervous about the phone interview (no video) for my first job, so I took a shower before it started. But I didn’t realize we were in different time zones, so the call came an hour sooner than I expected. I did the interview with a towel wrapped around me. I got the job.

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
    11·
    7 days ago

    Absolutely nothing. Long Covid has me confined to my bed for the rest of my life and I’m “free” to do whatever is not too taxing.

      • Björn@swg-empire.de
        5·
        7 days ago

        Awfully. At first I just didn’t get well again after the initial infection. But at least I could still walk about and do little stuff, like loading the dishwasher, going on short walks, playing D&D online.

        Bad mistakes. Every time I did a little too much I got even worse and could do less and less. My incompetent GP who didn’t believe in Long Covid didn’t help either.

        About four years later and I can only leave the bed to go number 2. No idea how long that will last. We already bought a bed pan. But using that looks even harder rhan going myself. We’ll see.

        Now that I know more I’m positive that I actually had Myalgic Encephalomyelitis even before the infection. Just not that bad. But I shan’t tell that anyone because all the science is now done on Long Covid. Even though ME has been known for about half a century and Long Covid is just an umbrella term for everything that can persist after a Covid infection.

        Even after we’ve got millions of more cases ME patients are just gaslit or at best ignored.

    • forkDestroyer@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      Don’t answer if this is too much, but: how are you taken care of? I’d be scared of not making rent if I lost my job. Is there a program or something for people that are essentially bed bound? I don’t know a lot about that system.

      • Björn@swg-empire.de
        7·
        7 days ago

        I’m in Germany, so I have a pretty good safety net. But I was also lucky to have my wife to fill out all the paperwork and my parents to support us financially (and also with the paperwork) until it was all sorted out.

        I get an early pension. The only bad part about that is that I have to reapply every three years or so. My wife gets paid to take care of me and we have an additional pool we can pay to external helpers.

        On top of that I have disability insurance. I kind of was about to change it to a higher tier a year or so before Corona. But I didn’t feel like doing that paperwork. Now I wish I did.

        Still, with everything together we can kind of keep living like we did before. I’m just missing around the house for chores and repairs and stuff.

  • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    I’m sitting in front if a machine worth about 30k I’m supposed to be using to take photos

    So yeah that

  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
    9·
    7 days ago

    getting ready to play bass in a cover band, we have an hour long set at a retirement home this afternoon. my first ever paid gig! definitely a tad nervous but it should be a good time

      • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        It did! Not technically perfect, but none of us expected it to be, and we had fun and got nothing but positive feedback!

        definitely feeling the importance of the bass player keeping the rhythm, especially when our drummer also does backup vocals (which still blows my mind that anyone can do that many things at once!)

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    7 days ago

    Supposed to be working.

    But if I don’t split it up with some scrolling I start losing my shit. I’m also going to be doing this until I die most likely so it’s very much a marathon, not a sprint. I’m also tired of stressing myself out for other people.

    So I cut corners where I can.

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
    6·
    6 days ago

    Noyhing. Had an extremely productive day followed by about an hour of great sex.

    Just reading the news before going to sleep. Scrolling Lemmy is part of my routine before sleep.

  • SadSadSatellite @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    8·
    7 days ago

    Nothing hugely important. I don’t usually have Tuesday off, so I’d like ti get to the habitat restore, and a local antique mall has a guy who sells antique chisels and hand planes who is only there on Tuesdays.

    Otherwise, i need to fix permissions on my suddenly broken nas, rebuild my proxmox server I broke when transferring parts, install the last five panels of privacy fence in my backyard, run service cable through a buried conduit to my garage, finish stitching my chisel roll, pick up some gate hardware for the fence, move a pallet of vintage specialized bricks out of my neighbors yard to use on my porch, renew my car insurance, check on my current 3d prints, design some drawers to hold lens blanks at my offices, and sharpen all my planes, chisels, spokeshaves and striking knives.

    Quality of life upgrades, nothing particularly pressing. Gotta finish my coffee and consider eating something first.