26 April 2026 Sunday

well, i've been in bed in a fugue state since friday night. 
i've been fighting a whale of a cold. i spent most of the 
past fourty-eight hours sleeping. it's 10 pm on sunday now,
and i'm just starting to feel up to writing here. i started
to 'come to' around 3 pm today...as in, having any sense of
cognitive energy. E has been out of town since friday after-
noon, so i've been on my own. i can't remember the last time
i was so sick i slept for days. but i know i always seem to 
get sick on the weekends, which grinds my gears because 
frankly i'd rather call off during the week than spend my 
precious free time unconscious. i guess i certainly rested.

in between bouts of sleeping, since 3 pm today, i practiced
for the amateur radio technician license test, with the 
hamstudy.org app. i've gotten to 60% aptitude, and today i
passed two practice tests, the first at 28 out of 35, the
second at 30 out of 35. i'm feeling optiimistic about being
ready to take an in-person test at a nearby amateur radio 
club in june. 

i also worked on freecodecamp's responsive web development
certification. i completed an earlier iteration of it, but
they expanded it to the current version not long after. it's
nice that my earlier progress has been fitted into the new
pathway, so i don't have to totally start from scratch. but
i'm reviewing some areas anyway where i figure i need it. 

i decided to do this because i was listening to a podcast
interview of a woman who does 'bad website club,' which is
an intitiative to help folks get through the certification
en masse with live sessions etc. i didn't realize until i
went back that i really don't have that much more to do. i
think originally i was discouraged because it took me quite
a while to finish the first certification. but really it's 
a boon that they've expanded it, as i think the additional
areas will help solidify a lot of this working knowledge 
for me. 

anyway, i guess it's back to work tomorrow. hard to imagine
driving, the way i still feel (weak, shaky, headache that
stabs with certain movements, raspy chest, half-plugged 
nose, coughing up, intermittently shivery and sweaty). i
will write notes from home in the morning, and if i feel 
up to it by afternoon, will drag myself to the office to
justify not doing any visits. otherwise will take a day.
i was going to originally, anyway, because i planned to 
go on the trip with e.

he's called me a few times. he did the recording of the 
'transit music' video today. he dj'd, and had some 
friends on the bus in the background. he put a good
deal of effort into making extra telephone masks (masks
made of actual vintage telephone bases) for friends to
wear, but i guess only one person wore one, and he 
already had one (the one he wears at times), so he said
he might as well have not bothered. all in all, a super
cool opportunity. wish i could have gone but so glad i
didn't, given how sick i ended up being.