Penguin
06-10-2022, 07:56 AM
Well I started off with some serious sinus burning and ended up with Covid this last week. And ended up giving it to my lovely wife a couple days later. While avoiding everyone around, we ended up doing some binge watching to pass the time between sneezes, coughs, and naps. Here's my rundown of 1883 and Covid.
1883: I really did not expect to like this show. I'm a big fan of western tv and movies but a lot of it is ridiculous and I can't watch it. And I'd put Yellowstone in that category. After committing a couple dozen murders on your ranch you have to believe that the state police, attorney general, FBI or somedamnbody would sense a pattern and come have a chat. I just couldn't suspend belief enough to hang on. So we started this show figuring it to be more of the same and had low expectations.
I couldn't have been more wrong. This show was violent. Sometimes excessively so. But it was all the kind of thing that I had read about before, even if having it ALL happen to one wagon train seemed like very bad luck. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were outstanding and Isabel May (Elsa Dutton) stole the show. She and her story were magnificent. I give it two snaps up and encourage any fence sitters to watch it.
Covid: Well I don't know if I had it before though I suspect I have at least once. But this one was confirmed and a sure thing. I'm pretty positive this was Omicron because although it hit my lungs it didn't go deeply into them. Just enough to scare me a bit when it started to move southward. Everywhere it did hit was hit hard. My sinuses burned like I was sniffing gasoline, my head ached like it was being hit with a ball peen hammer, and my throat felt like it was on fire. Bloody hankys and lots of them were the order of the day. I treated with Excedrin, Delsym, and Mucinex and that kept me ticking OK.
All better now on day 9 and ready to weed the garden, cut some firewood, and write some research papers. I suppose everyone gets hit a bit differently but I have had a couple worse flu cases in my life. But it was much worse than any head cold I've experienced. Much, much worse. Bring on the summer.
Will
1883: I really did not expect to like this show. I'm a big fan of western tv and movies but a lot of it is ridiculous and I can't watch it. And I'd put Yellowstone in that category. After committing a couple dozen murders on your ranch you have to believe that the state police, attorney general, FBI or somedamnbody would sense a pattern and come have a chat. I just couldn't suspend belief enough to hang on. So we started this show figuring it to be more of the same and had low expectations.
I couldn't have been more wrong. This show was violent. Sometimes excessively so. But it was all the kind of thing that I had read about before, even if having it ALL happen to one wagon train seemed like very bad luck. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were outstanding and Isabel May (Elsa Dutton) stole the show. She and her story were magnificent. I give it two snaps up and encourage any fence sitters to watch it.
Covid: Well I don't know if I had it before though I suspect I have at least once. But this one was confirmed and a sure thing. I'm pretty positive this was Omicron because although it hit my lungs it didn't go deeply into them. Just enough to scare me a bit when it started to move southward. Everywhere it did hit was hit hard. My sinuses burned like I was sniffing gasoline, my head ached like it was being hit with a ball peen hammer, and my throat felt like it was on fire. Bloody hankys and lots of them were the order of the day. I treated with Excedrin, Delsym, and Mucinex and that kept me ticking OK.
All better now on day 9 and ready to weed the garden, cut some firewood, and write some research papers. I suppose everyone gets hit a bit differently but I have had a couple worse flu cases in my life. But it was much worse than any head cold I've experienced. Much, much worse. Bring on the summer.
Will