October really hasn't been my month so far. Food poisoning, mouth infection, and cold almost back to back. It'll be a few more days before I feel OK.

It was a tough act to follow the quality conclusion of September, but this is something else. It was already an expensive month to boot and I'm still processing a major life-scale realization (read: neurodiversity, not ready to talk about it yet). As a reward, I get to be the adult in the room for some people trying to play office politics. Yay. 😅

Despite everything, I'm in good spirits. Last month, I got to finally make sense of how I process things, got to spend quality time with my family & extended family, and more good thing. Between these current poor health dominated couple of weeks, and dealing with office toxicity, I still am 👍🏾.

I want a number of things to change. But I'm in good spirits because @asuralinux has been my coping mechanism. Which is why I'm also a little sad I still didn't get to finish the next technical blogpost.

@gaveen Sorry to hear about the health issues — sometimes, it feels as if you are a besieged castle and when the walls are weakened, all the barbarian hordes come in at once …

Sorry to hear about the office politics too. I’ve never liked that since I don’t know how to deal with that kind of thing. I want things to be cut-and-dried and unfortunately, people are anything but 😞

But I’m glad you are in good spirits and hope all of this passes soon.

Saw a doctor today, because my painful sore throat and coughing weren't getting any better and weren't responding to usual remedies either. Additional issues also started to pop up by yesterday and I barely got any sleep. I'm on antibiotics now, plus nasal and eye drops, and a gargle--the whole nine yards. I'm hopeful this will do the trick.

The only public place I've stopped wearing masks was work. Guess I'll go back to wearing a mask at work too.

@gaveen I wish you a speedy recovery, Gaveen. Hope that the next half of the month will be better.

But it is indeed a delight to hear about @asuralinux ! Reading the first blog post right now.... I look forward to read and hear more. Jaya wewa! :)

Btw, good to know that you too are among those who haven't given up on masks. I go by looking at the size and the numbers of the gathering, ventilation and how close everyone is going to be; public, work or private. Last week I went to a birthday party wearing a KN95 mask :)

@lohang thanks Lohan. Still a way to go for recovery, but even after a single dose of medicine, I'm already feeling better than I've felt in almost two weeks. I'm definitely on team KN95.

Hope you found the blog post on @asuralinux of interest. There's not much else yet, and I'm also learning as I go. That's why I didn't make it like an announcement. I'm hoping the next post will be up within a couple of days.