A week long head cold

It started Monday night. The wife decided that at midnight she wanted to make some barbacoa. So that meant searing some steak on the cast iron and making a lot of smoke. Left the windows open all night and the temp ended up dropping to just above freezing. Woke up with my sinuses swollen and my mouth dry. Its a weird feeling rolling side to side feeling one side of your head close up and then the other.

I rarely ever get sick. Not that I'm a germaphobe but I'm pretty good at staying away from sick people, washing my hands all the time, wearing a mask everywhere (now due the pandemic). If I get something like this it usually gone in 24 hours, just long enough to be annoying. But for some reason I just can't kick this one. No other symptoms, just my sinuses feeling like crap.

Now that its technically Saturday, I've got another week of the new job under my belt. I've been making a point of always being a few minutes early to every meeting so that I can introduce myself to whoever is running the show, getting my name out there. With this fully remote work environment we are currently in, its still very strange to not have any direct interaction with coworkers. My last job started the summer of the start of the pandemic. The place I had worked at went under as we were directly tied to major companies doing advertising business and that basically dried up when everyone was on lock down. So I worked from the summer of 2020 until a month ago, only once meeting my boss in person and my coworkers on my last day as I dropped off my equipment. I know some people do the completely remote thing before the pandemic, I just never thought I'd be one of them. I've always been a pretty social person so interacting strictly in Teams, Zoom and Slack is still something I am getting used to.

$ published: 2022-10-01 00:50 $

--- CC-BY-4.0 jecxjo 2022-10-01

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