Diary of quarantine: Day 18

[fajrdrako]

Day 18 of quarantine. I was awake in the night, so I slept until nine.

- My morning Yoga was done with YouTube, using "Yoga with Adriene" - "Yoga for low back". I'm trying to strengthen my back and make it more flexible, and to eliminate back pain, especially sciatica. So far, it's going well. This was my 41st day of this particular series of practices. They say you start to really see a difference at 40 days. Do I? I've been noticing a real difference in flexibity, strength and concentration for the past two weeks, but today was a bit of a relapse - odd bits of pain interfering with the yoga, especially pain over the ribs. I adjusted accordingly.

- Phoned Maaseru in Halifax and we had a good chat.

- Day 125 of doing Esperanto on Duolingo, which won me an Achievement Award. Worked on it till I had about 100 XP for the day. I'm currently working on "People", level 4. I'm in the Obsidian League.

- Sorted and cleaned one of the kitchen cupboards, on that has been bothering me because it was potentially very useful, but full of old plastic containers and other messy odds and ends. It's whipped into shape now and I hope to keep it that way. We have made great strides on the kitchen in the past two weeks, my housemates and I.

- I've been doing Loren Crawford's 7 p.m. streaming yoga each evening, but he took a break today, so I did noe of his sessions from a week ago.

- Made spaghetti bolognese for supper, using the Ninja cooker. It came out superb (if I do say so myself).

- Watched "Hudson and Rex" with Ian and Sheila over supper, S2 E4, "Strangers in the Night". As with many episodes of that show, the plot turned out to be more interesting than it at first appeared. But who am I kidding? I watch for the dog and the great views of Saint John.

- A wonderful thing has happened, fandom-wise. Some friends of <thefairestone are doing a group reread of the entire Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett, and invited me to join. Them. A few months ago I got the books on Audible, but hadn't listened to them yet. So I am both listening to and reading the first section of The Game of Kings, which has so many of my favourite characters - not just Lymond and Richard, but Sybilla, Christian Stewart, Turkey Mat, Will Scott, his father Wat, and his stepmother Janet Beaton. I haven't even got to the Somervilles yet.

It's a joy to have people to discuss these books with again.