Every once in a while, I want to post something not to Micro.blog but to both twitter and mastodon. The usual method was posting to either or, and copy and paste to the other. I know this can be done through drafts, but for whatever reason I never managed to set up the action correctly.

Then in hit me, I have had the perfect app for this all along, but I have never considered using it.

Linky

I do use this app almost if not every single day. I use it to share universal links for music, for example, but it usually ends up on my blog. Or to share links about a movie or tv show I am currently watching and including an image and everything.

But it never occurred to me to use it to compose a tweet/toot.

Devil That You Know / Lazy Eyes - Single by NHC

Red (Taylor’s Version) (+ A Message From Taylor) by Taylor Swift

HEIGHTS by WALK THE MOON

De Vuelta a Casa by Pj Sin Suela

An Evening With Silk Sonic by Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic

The Walls Are Way Too Thin - EP by Holly Humberstone

Valentine by Snail Mail

YAK: A Collection Of Truck Songs by Angel Du$t

Paraíso Lunar by Siddhartha

Se Menea - Single by Don Omar & Nio García

Puerto Rico Vive by Los Pleneros de la Cresta

Today, I’ve got this feeling of nothingness, or at least that’s how I’ve decided to call it. I prefer not to do anything, anything at all. I don’t want to work, I don’t want to watch tv, I don’t want to play video games, workout, nothing!

If anything, I’d like to spend some time inside of one of those water tanks and just hover.

I have been having a sore throat for a few days now, along with some nasal congestion. I, blame my two girls for it, especially Marley. As per protocol, I let my manager know, I had to stay home and wait for the soreness to resolve before coming back on-site. Although Marley is all well and kicking now and cleared to go back to school, per her pediatrician, this morning I woke up with soreness. And once again, I reached out to my manager and the HSE person. I was advised to go see my physician since there has been a lot of cases of strep throat lately and see what the physician advised, then, go from there. 

I called my local Primary Health, they advised me to come by, and call from the parking lot. I drive to the place, get greeted by two army guys, they asked some screening questions, let me pass, and called the reception. I got more questions and they told me someone would be calling me to let me know it was okay to walk in.

So much protocol that it was weird, but I get it, so I am not annoyed.

they let me in, they did more questions, and got swabbed for strep. It was negative. Lady doctor advised it was probably a cold and that it continued, probably a sinus infection. 

And yet, she asked me if I wanted to get the COVID test since I was already there and to for sure rule that out. I said, 

sure! 

It didn't hurt, at least.

Now I am waiting to hear back.

This whole pandemic and all these new norms and protocols have placed, in some ways, the fear of God in me. I am so scared of getting a cold, to sneeze or coughing at work. If my kids get sick, I am supposed to report it and stay home until further instructions. Although I have the ability to work from home, there is an on-site project I was supposed to start yesterday, but until I am cleared to come back on-site, there's nothing it can be done. I doubt that I will hear back from my test today, which means I won't be starting this project until next week. 

What's worse, in a way, if I would have withheld the information that I got tested and just said, 

Doctor said is just a cold

and tomorrow I would wake up 'fine', I could go to work like usual, most likely. And even though I am sure I don't have COVID (like 99% sure)  I have both the sense of responsibility of protecting myself and others, hence why I agreed to get tested, but also the guilty of missing days on-site.