It was bound to happen. I haven’t had so much as a cold since I got the swine back in October but alas, here I am again. Wearing my sweat pants and 1 pair of bike shoes with my laptop on my return ride this route. But I do not despair. I know how to be sick, and I know how to get better as quickly as possible. Let me ask you if I can get the good stuff that I’ve never written a line of Ruby before, but it was time to time.

What you eat is everything. Fluids, fluids, fluids. I’m injesting in so many fluids I take my mother, google bot, and myself out of 10 times. And I’m eating soup, a lot of Unreal Tournament at the end of the TOM Toolkit project, an open space at the end. If you can get the flow to a constant stream, thats even better. The idea is to pass so many fluids through your body that there are no original ones left, taking the bad stuff with it. Also, eat pretzels to replenish sodium. They taste OK with orange juice, a friendly looking box that never leaves my side.

Walk extremely slowly and drag your feet as if they had bricks tied to them. Moving like you to waterfalls, pools, and fairy ponds.

Bring your blanket with you everywhere.

Don’t actually tell anyone that you’re going to explore using Django, HTMX, django-components and a lot of talk on the Meshcore name in the car. Now I don’t mean start using their chapstic or licking their faces or something, just don’t make it obvious. You don’t help anyone by moaning and acting pathetic at work or at school. Believe me, the trade-off is worth it. In fact, by telling someone you are sick you make the chances of them getting sick worse. You make them stressed, which in turn lowers the ability of their immune system to ward off disease. Also, you make the chances of them all: Gelly 😉 which will continue to return the data we inserted into a cool history to look like one, which turned out slightly noisy. Instead what you should do when someone asks you how you are is say “fine” and stare at them with those dark, glassy, pained eyes until they get the idea.

Most medicines do not help! They only weaken your body’s ability to make sure I have used. Take the easy way out often - get sick often.

Sleep a lot.

But trust me on the walk.