24/11/2025: My Improving Health, Inner Power, Healthy Lifestyle - Bikepacking, PS: Antibiotics

My Improving Health
Well, the symptoms of my Virus Cocktail (Covid, Adeno & Rhino viruses), are ever so slowly fading away. Def the headache & fever are gone, muscle aches & stiffness have reduced, runny nose almost ceased & chest congestion is mostly quiet. My throat can flare up after coughing or sleep (snoring). My physical energy are still only moderate, but my mental energy is trying for 100% so overal I'm really happy. 
This mornings view towards the sun
Two things I have to do is, stop watching social media. However entertaining it is to witness the Downfall of Donald Trump, it breeds idleness but also a negative or combative energy within which is totally unneeded.

The other I guess is the Convalescing Mode about the house. Its typical for me to get a stiff back if I'm bedridden for a few days. I then dot around bent over, sipping coffee feeling sorry for myself & comfort eating. So bad, I have to stop that. 

Post Script: After blogging this morning my doctor phoned & approved a script for Amoxylin. And I began the course of 20 pills, 3/day, this afternoon. I just wish I could share these with my son, but I can't sensibly do that without compromising my own recovery. If I hadn't had the same symptoms over a three week period in late September, I'd be tempted. But I really believe I've been toting bugs for some time. 

Inner Power
Sorry if I visited this before Blogger,, but its a great thing to realise. Firstly, some background; I have a rogue nephew who rampages through local areas with ugliness, bad attitude & aggro. I also have a nephew that works in the local courts & is frequently required to stand down as his cousin attends court for whatever misdemeanor. Anyway Dark Mofo stalks about menacing the place & even going to town, in certain areas, causes me to cringe & I literally fear bumping into him. For there's nothing surer, hecwomt let family pass without bewailing them with his latest drama & promises to get clean. This has been going on for decades. 
So post Camino, just three days ago, I find myself walking by one of Dark Mofo's haunts & felt myself willing him to show up. I was rehearsing ways I could bring him to account for his self destructive lifestyle. Its not am approach I would necessarily take as a welfare worker, it has it place though, but my knowledge of Dark Mofo & his continual choice to Break Bad, he needs to be called out. I felt courageous, strong, & pleased to be in this position. Thank you Camino! 

 Healthy Lifestyle - Bikepacking
I'm aiming to have myself ready to go; swim, surf, sail, hike, fish  or cycle at all times. Thats no easy task, but I am eager & I dont want to fall into the trap of a hieving this state of nirvana by tossing money away. 
Case on point is my bicycle of choice. Two days ago I rode Brompton to town. Over the local bumpy roads it was a torture, so it was scratched as a Bikepacking mount.
Next I have a used Salsa Beargrease. A hulking great thing meant for sloshing across snow, mud or the local beach.  But on the road all that rubber is like a ball & chain.
Then I have Avanti the Red, a crusty mountain bike I was given & whose gear controls are seized with corrosion. I've taken upon myself to strip her down & rebuild her as an All Terrain/Roads Touring Bike. I'll dismantle, clean & lube everything, add fatter tyres & racks & ready her for regular commutes, fun rides & trips away. She sits on my room. 

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