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Here we are, another Tuesday with not much to catch you up on. The washing machine continues to "air out," although I have very little trust that it's making any difference. Shobhit suggested attempting a test small cycle after he gets home this evening, when it will have been two full days it had to dry out any moisture that he thinks (with no concrete evidence whatsoever) may have gotten on electrical wires in the motor. I'm still hoping for a miracle and that it actually starts spinning again, of course, but I will be truly shocked if it actually goes that way.
As for last night, I drove to the office to exchange receiving paperwork. I completely forgot to grab tea packets from the kitchen to bring home as planned, and so when I went to make my requisite tea this morning and found the drawer empty of my beloved Earl Grey, I was most annoyed. But then I was like, whatever, I'll just make myself chai. I thought I would have two cups since I usually refill my regular tea with hot water all morning, but Shobhit chose this one day not to make his coffee in the morning like normal, and he took the other cup. Oh well. Less calories for me, I guess.
We made our own dinners last night. He made himself a cabbage and potato dish, well after I made myself a veggie hot dog. We watched episodes two and three of the HBO Max series
Peacemaker, which is pretty entertaining. I've actually got several shows, mostly on HBO Max but one on Netflix, earmarked to watch in the coming weeks, in addition to
Peacemaker: the new Bridget Everett show
Somebody Somewhere, premiered on HBO Max last Sunday but I still need to check it out;
Ozark season four comes to Netflix this Friday; and a new HBO Max show that looks right up my alley called
The Guilded Age is premiering on Monday next week. I bet we'll burn through all of
Ozark this weekend, but that will leave three shows for me to watch weekly through most of February.
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On the Covid and Omicron front, although Washington State official data remains frustratingly absent from daily tallies since January 13, according to
this KUOW article, the past week's new cases are down 20% from the previous week, at least in King County specifically. That seems promising, and
this projection model that I check frequently also indicates Omicron has peaked and we are now on the other side of it, with case counts on the decline.
At this rate, I may consider returning to the office at the start of February. We'll see how I'm feeling in a couple of weeks. I may yet to decide to work from home still through February just for good measure, but we'll see. I miss working at the office but remain comforted by the expectation that I will be able to return soon. Granted, we all believed we'd be at home a far shorter period of time when this all started in March 2020 than we realized, but the fact remains we are in a far better position now than we were then, Omicron notwithstanding.
If we can soon get to a position where we can get our hands on home rapid tests a lot more easily and in greater number, that may also affect my decision. I know we're supposed to be able to start ordering them from a government website tomorrow.
I feel increasingly lucky that I still haven't caught it, at least to my knowledge. My tests from two weeks ago came back negative, after not one but two family gatherings over the holidays, when plenty of other people got infected doing exactly the same thing. I've has three exposure notifications from my phone, all of which are now well past the time it would have taken for me to get sick had I gotten it. Shobhit got tested on Sunday and, although his PCR result has not yet come through, his rapid results came back negative. Ivan still gets tested at his job twice a week. So, not quite knowing how realistic it is, I remain hopeful that I can get through this wave unscathed. So far, so good.
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