I got called by the hospital and they gave me an update on the lump removed from the mouth. It was thankfully nothing serious, but recommended I keep an eye on it in case it came back (there is always a risk of that)
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Twitter, TFL and Dilbert
It’s been a while so here’s a few updates in the meantime
It’s coming up to a year since I moved house and only now have the pile of construction rubbish been moved from outside my old flat. Dumping of rubbish by the neighbours in the adjoining block of flats into the garage is still happening.
Conservatives lost control of the area to Labour but I’m seeing absolutely no change
We went through a period of very cold weather (-6degC) and this was costing us £10-£15 per day in gas usage.
Moving onto other updates. As posted previously, I went into hospital to remove a lump from my mouth. I’ll soon get a follow up call from the doctor to check how I’m doing. Stitches took about 10 days to dissolve. I just have a small white patch there now where the lump was removed and the doctor cauterised the wound.
Twitter has descended into a real s**thole since Elon took over. First killing all third-party clients and then indicating it may start charging for API usage.
The third-party client purge I can tolerate — it was originally started during the Jack era, but charging for API usage, or even limiting tweets per day is not something many people will accept.
I started working on stripping out twitter functionality from my TFL updates bot and that’s near enough done now. It now tweets (or should that be toots) into a Mastodon account at https://mastodon.xyz/users/updatesbf
RSS feed functionality should still work, but it is not enabled yet, until I can get Keda to work.
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Operation Update
So it’s been a couple of days since the operation. The pain has now died down enough to be tolerable without painkillers – or at least as frequently.
I’m able to eat semi-solid food now stuff like soups, porridge and congee (look that up if you don’t know what that is). I have been able to drink hot drinks without too much pain now, like tea, although I still need to mix in a bit of cold water to cool it down first.
Brushing my teeth has been easier now and I’ve started using salt water rinses as instructed — although the side effect of that seems to be that it dries the hell out of my lips (well, that’s what salt does, after all).
I’ll be heading back into the office next week, but only for one day since I’m training for three days and the fifth day is taken up by another freaking train strike.
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Flu
Ran my LFT and it came up negative. The family also ran LFTs and they were all clear. Guess it confirms my suspicion that whatever I have is just the flu, even though it feels horrible…. :-(
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Flu
I think I’m coming down with something. Fairly certain it’s not covid, but just in case, going to LFT myself.
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A long busy day at the office and we wet, windy, and miserable evening, so no running, but I did head out for a walk. I know from experience that slugs emerge after a wet spell, and I’ve on more than one occasion squished one unknowingly during a run, leaving a slimy mess when I made it back to the house.
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No running today, but I did head out for a walk to get my dad some Valentines Day stuff (he was feeling under the weather but still want to get something for my mum)
Now it’s just a matter of trying to sneak it into the house with my my mum knowing :-P
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Running #4
Day 2 on the C25K app and today’s setup was the same as yesterday:
- 5 minutes walking warmup
- 60 seconds running
- 90 seconds walking
- repeat walk/run for 20 minutes (8 intervals)
GPS tracking was better since I allowed background tracking.
Leg was still slightly aching from yesterday, but I pushed through.
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Running #3
Decided to reinstall an old C25K app I used to use, and the first run was:
- 5 minutes walking warmup
- 60 seconds running
- 90 seconds walking
- repeat walk/run for 20 minutes (8 intervals)
GPS tracking was bad because I hadn’t set it to allow background tracking. Will change that for the next run.
But now my leg is aching again. My lower back part of my right leg is hurting like it’s about to spasm (it has done that before)
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Went running again, and still having trouble lasting any reasonable distance. I might just revert doing a C25K plan again.
Blender Fox 
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