Soooo...APPARENTLY....I had the 'Rona

 Also apparently, the Red Cross tested me for antibodies when I donated blood in May of this year.  They had stopped the antibody testing ages ago.  I didn't realize they had re-started for a short time to find "convalescent plasma" donor options.   I think they aren't testing again...

ANYWAY...I was booking or rebooking an appointment for the future and was looking through my old vitals and whatnot from past appointments because, why not.  I have great blood pressure and sometimes my heart rate is so low they have to call HQ for permission to drain my blood.  They say things like "no, she's fine, just calm" or "I guess she meditates" and then they can do it.

On the May appointment record was also a covid antibody test that said "Reactive +"

When one has the vaccine and an immune response to it, you get "Reactive" but no "+".  So I looked that up!  I had enough antibodies for convalescent plasma donations (to help those who are sick).  

You have to have "had" the disease or at least mounted a major immune response to it.

I had tested my nose several times through spring before travel or when I was seeing someone with a compromised immune system.   And in the spring when I sneezed once and once when I was tired on a Friday.  All negative.   Interesting.

As far as I know, I didn't infect anyone fragile!  I hope!!  There was a time when everyone at work but me and another woman were out sick.  She also has "never had" the 'rona.  But people she lives with have had it multiple times.

Probably she and I had those no-symptom cases I've heard about.  I figured I would be one who had that but was also enjoying that I might be the LAST person to get it.  Guess not!

I'm fairly glad to know I've had it.  More immune having had vaccine and the disease than either one alone and I've had my vaccines.  And a booster.  Cool.

In much much sadder news...Loretta Lynn died today.  

Here are links to a couple of songs that were banned from radio and something more recent:

Rated X about divorced women being treated poorly 

https://youtu.be/SVlnhB3xPtY

The Pill...about birth control and how important that is:

https://youtu.be/E2pd1l0i0A8

And something she did with Jack White because...why not!

https://youtu.be/11tjR5ZflSw

RIP Loretta.

I'm Baaaa_aaaack!

 The radio show is going to be IN THE STUDIO tomorrow!!!  Woot woot!

We've been zooming from 3 locations into the station where the intrepid station manager then beamed us out to the universe and the greater Moscow Idaho metropolitan area.   Since...um...like a really long time ago.  The before times.   

I looked it up:  Sunday March 29, 2020.   Re-opening to many in person shows June 21, 2020  

Peace Radio, the show I am on with friends, was the last live show other than 3 people who kept the station going and were the only ones in the station for those many months.  

Tomorrow, Peace Radio may be the first live DJ show, again, other than the three who kept the station going for many months...the first of the regular mortals...back on the air.

The official semi-reopening will be Monday but I begged for the dispensation to come in a day early and got it.

Very grateful to the station manager and others who worked through this and helped our show and others zoom in live, helped some develop and record shows remotely and send them in as sound files, and just simply kept the poop in a group.

I may miss doing the show from the shed and I know people will miss all the cocks...I mean my roosters crowing (there have been 3 over the 'rona times) in the back ground.   Today the wild roses are in full bloom and the breeze out of the south is blowing it through my windows.  That would be nice during the show, but the motorcycles and semi trucks blasting down the highway and blowing horns and blaring music won't be nice. Hence I end up shutting the windows anyway.

During 'rona I picked up an accidental side gig, got another phase of the house built, learned to combing yoga and jenga and twister (yengster?  twonga?  jisga?) in order to do yoga in the wee shed over zoom or off recorded sessions from the Moscow Yoga Center, off youtube or out of my head.   I realized again JUST HOW CRAMPED it is here for yoga with a 34" inseam and seriously long arms, when I visited an aunt and really loved the boiler room for yoga.  I could spread my arms out and not burn them on a stove or bust a knuckle of the loft ladder.  In July, I can go back to the yoga studio once a week or so.  That should be amazing too.  I wonder if I can even DO yoga while suppressing toots anymore.  When one yogas at home, one farts proudly.  The class will be simulcast to those who prefer to stay home or need to, so the toots could be broadcast.  

Things are open again here.  I am aware they are not so open elsewhere.  I hope this too shall pass for us all.

No Food-Spend February Update 2

 It's going fine.  Amazingly fine.  Like beyond fine.

Today's menu, I was "working from home" (I did do a virtual meeting so some work.  Also took comptime): 

Breakfast: Brown Rice Pancake thingies.  I like to add eggs to left overs and make them into breakfast.  I made brown rice (free, 2nd harvest) yesterday and added powdered eggs (gift so...free) because the hens are not having it right now, coffee from the free crap at work, cinnamon (1cent), nutmeg (1cent) and water (free).   Total:  2cents

Lunch:  Noodle soup with lentils.   1 onion (free 2nd harvest), a 1/4cup scoop of dried veg from the food co-op (about 5cents), spaghetti for the noodles (free, 2nd harvest), dried mushrooms (gift), vinegar (pineapple vinegar I made myself from pineapple skin and core and a bit of sugar...maybe 1cent for the sugar), black pepper (1cent), spice mix (gift, free), coconut oil (1cent), 1/4c red lentils (more expensive...like a dime).           Total: 18cents

Snack:  Rooibos Tea (gift...thanks Chris!),  Tiny cocoa pancakes (Apparently I felt like making pancakes today)  Flour (free, 2nd harvest), powdered eggs (free), baking cocoa 1T (2cents maybe...it was on sale), baking powder 1/2tsp (1cent), coconut oil (1 cent)          Total: 4cents.

Supper: Spaghetti with cracked pepper and a pinch of salt (surprisingly delicious and I'd just had my snack so it wasn't much).   Spaghetti (free, 2nd harvest), peppercorns (1cent), salt (less than 1 cent but we'll call it a penny).      Total: 2 cents

Total for the day: 26cents.   Just over 2 bits    

Yesterday I had apples as well, 2nd harvest.  I brought home enough for a couple of days but they are sweet like candy and I ate them all the first day.  Oh well.  

I shoveled snow for 2 hours or so yesterday and an hour today.   We have a total of 11 inches on the ground as of an hour ago.  NUTS.  Before the storm, no snow  Zero.  Zip . Nada  It DUMPED in 2 days.   I shoveled in 2 shifts today but can still feel it in my back.   Time for more yoga to keep that moving.   The shoulders are a bit wonky as well.  Anyway, as a result of all the shoveling, and the effort of walking through a foot of snow, I got some serious exercise and probably ate more than usual.  I've been avoiding having a snack most days, instead just lovely tea.

I meant to bring home some meat in jars or frozen elk (YUM! Thanks Rik) but forgot.  Hopefully I will remember it for the weekend along with some of the canned veggies from 2nd harvest.  The fresh onions and apples were a real treat.   

IF you haven't tried roasting onions instead of frying them, you are missing out.  I am roasting mine inside the woodstove, but an oven will work as well.   DO NOT roast them in the microwave at work.  They taste delicious but people were p.o'd at me for WEEKS.  The weeks it took for the smell to dissipate.

I'm working on a post about woodstove cookery when it's not a cookstove.   Hopefully post that later this week.   (see...I learned from the youtubers to tease a future episode).

Handy Calculator for CovidRisk...based on "science"...who knew?

 https://mycovidrisk.app/

I found that this morning.  HANDY.