January 14, 2024

Life: covid recovery, arctic front, earthquake (MLK Jr holiday weekend 2024)

 I had covid in mid-late December and was in bed for 12 days. It was incredibly exhausting experience.


My body kicked the virus in 12 days. But afterwards, I was still sleeping 8-12 hours straight at night, probably still fixing something. I'd say it was damage recovery time that was needed for additional 2 weeks.


Last weekend I was out for Tango, then the next day for Salsa/party Latins. I was cautious and going easy on myself, as it was after some bed-ridden time and break

For Tango, I needed to check on my balance, but was fine for social dancing. My body was moving well for Salsa, which was a nice surprise.


This weekend, I was again out for dancing. I felt I recovered. 

I don't know how much these senolytics and mitochondrial function supplements helped, but results were what I can be thankful for.


Incidentally, an arctic front is visiting here. Outside is currently 5F (-15C). Tonight would be 2F (-16C). This near record-cold weather would last for next 2-3 days.

Need to watch out for frozen pipes. Reminding me of why I was not searching for a job in cold places.


Also incidentally, we had noticeable earthquakes 2 days earlier, biggest one was M4.4. 

Had the earthquakes been bigger, enough to cause house and building breakdowns (similar to what we saw recently in Noto peninsula in Japan), this arctic weather would have been a true disaster.

Assuming another earthquake is not coming, we were lucky.


This MLK Jr holiday weekend is going to be cold, "stay at home" weekend.