Hello 2024
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julesjonesI don't have a lot to say about 2023, mostly because one of the things to say is that not a lot got recorded in my diary that wasn't about a) medical issues, b) making a note of dates and times that the day job discriminated against me, in case it should be necessary to take them to court about it. I did actually manage to start writing again, even if it was only a revision pass on the first draft of a novel I'd finished just before medical problems made it impossible to write.
At least I no longer feel the need to keep a *detailed* contemporaneous note of things said and done to me. One of the highlights of my year was that the office lowlight of the last year or so had put in their necessary year at a newly created higher grade job to get their final salary pension paid at the new pay level, and has now retired to enjoy said pension. Many of my fellow Delta grades feel much the same way.
Had yet another unpleasant medical diagnosis, but on the upside the chronic migraine is back under control after a rocky start to the year when I had to cut back the medication. "Under control" means I have to be very careful about managing exposure to triggers because it takes very little to set it off, but I can lead something close to normal life, including...
Eastercon! I could probably have made it there by myself this year if I'd had to, although I was still very glad of the babysitting service by the inestimablekalypso. As usual I had to spend some time hiding in my room, but was able to see a lot more of a con than I have for the last few years. (Getting a room away from migraine triggers was a saga in itself, and much gratitude to the hotel staff who organised it for me).
Got Covid at Eastercon in spite of wearing a mask when not eating. :-( It finally caught up with me after three years. Given the attitude many con goers had to masking, I'm not entirely convinced going to another con is a good idea.
Was able to get an NHS Covid booster this autumn, because I'm classed as medically vulnerable, so with any luck another Covid infection will be relatively mild.
And yes, managed to get some writing done, even if not as much as I'd have liked.
Acquired a Bluesky account to go with the Mastodon account. Given that Bluesky is another Jack Dorsey project I'm not entirely hopeful this will remain somewhere I'd want to be, but one can but hope.
I await with interest what exciting new ways to live in interesting times the new year will bring us.
At least I no longer feel the need to keep a *detailed* contemporaneous note of things said and done to me. One of the highlights of my year was that the office lowlight of the last year or so had put in their necessary year at a newly created higher grade job to get their final salary pension paid at the new pay level, and has now retired to enjoy said pension. Many of my fellow Delta grades feel much the same way.
Had yet another unpleasant medical diagnosis, but on the upside the chronic migraine is back under control after a rocky start to the year when I had to cut back the medication. "Under control" means I have to be very careful about managing exposure to triggers because it takes very little to set it off, but I can lead something close to normal life, including...
Eastercon! I could probably have made it there by myself this year if I'd had to, although I was still very glad of the babysitting service by the inestimable
kalypso. As usual I had to spend some time hiding in my room, but was able to see a lot more of a con than I have for the last few years. (Getting a room away from migraine triggers was a saga in itself, and much gratitude to the hotel staff who organised it for me).Got Covid at Eastercon in spite of wearing a mask when not eating. :-( It finally caught up with me after three years. Given the attitude many con goers had to masking, I'm not entirely convinced going to another con is a good idea.
Was able to get an NHS Covid booster this autumn, because I'm classed as medically vulnerable, so with any luck another Covid infection will be relatively mild.
And yes, managed to get some writing done, even if not as much as I'd have liked.
Acquired a Bluesky account to go with the Mastodon account. Given that Bluesky is another Jack Dorsey project I'm not entirely hopeful this will remain somewhere I'd want to be, but one can but hope.
I await with interest what exciting new ways to live in interesting times the new year will bring us.
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Date: 2024-01-02 03:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-01-04 10:39 am (UTC)I am not convinced that going to another con is a good idea either. Eastercon rates of Covid in attendees over the past two years have been around 10%, and that's when the national average has been between 1-2%, which tells me that this convention is a high risk environment, and I have no expectation that, e.g., Worldcon in Glasgow will be any less so.