I'm still testing negative for Covid, but I'm also still definitely sick with something. Earlier in the week, it was headaches (probably sinus) and exhaustion (on the level of 'why are the muscles in my torso wobbling when I'm on my feet more than 30 seconds?'). Right now, both of my ears ache, and I'm unsure of my balance. I've taken sudafed and mucinex and am hoping things will drain soon. Today's the first day when sitting in the living room wasn't an option.

Scott is recovering. He'll be going back to work tomorrow. He'll also have to figure out which of his scheduled vacation days between now and 31 December he'll be giving up. We already knew he'd be working Black Friday because that was part of his deal for having last weekend free.

Cordelia decided not to come home. She had a five day weekend, so she'd been planning to visit. She made the decision based on not wanting to risk getting sick as she had two different offers of a ride. She says that campus feels empty. MSU scheduled tomorrow and Tuesday off for 'fall break,' and Cordelia's Friday class only meets some weeks.

I just got my Yuletide assignment, and I'm excited about it. I'm probably going to end up buying the canon so that I can take proper notes without worrying about due dates. I'll be returning all of the other things that I borrowed from the library before offering them; getting stuff that way helps me feel able to offer more things. That way, I know I'll have access if finding a copy to buy takes longer than I expected.

I finished filling out my ballot last night. We'd been planning to take them downtown today, but I wasn't up to it. Either Scott will drop them off tomorrow, or we'll put them in the out-going mail.

We did a grocery pickup at Meijer on Saturday. Unfortunately, one of the items they didn't have was the tissues I ordered. My suspicion is that they didn't have the exact size of package I ordered. They have a single toggle for substitutions, and I always set it to 'no substitutions' because of the risk of getting things no one in the house will be able to eat. Also, for things like tissues and soap, I have to have unscented, but there's no way to specify that.

( Scott tested positive for Covid Saturday )

Scott only worked two days last week. The vacation schedule was planned before he took the second shift job, but he'd forgotten that he'd scheduled Thursday and Friday off. He made some repairs to the ramp from the back porch to the driveway (one of the supports underneath had come loose and tipped over because Scott's father thought that screws down through the ramp to the supports would interfere with the ramp's functionality and therefore didn't let Scott anchor things properly), so there's no longer a soft spot halfway down. We got some things stored and some other things cleaned. I did some moving of books in the basement that I'd been intending to do for literal years.

We discovered during the book moving that three or four books had gotten a little wet and needed to be pitched. None of them are things we particularly care about. I'm just annoyed because, while I knew we were getting dribs and drabs of dry soil through the corner of that basement window, I hadn't ever seen signs of moisture there. We could so easily have lost books I cared about. I also pulled more books to donate.

We discussed trying to get rid of some of the furniture in the basement, and Scott had plans in that regard before he got sick on Saturday. At this point, who knows? I did ask Cordelia if any of that stuff appeals to her for a few years down the road, and she was unenthusiastic. Which is fair.

Cordelia will probably want any of the bookshelves that we manage to clear. At least, I assume so. Everybody needs bookshelves. Right now, though, we need to move the furniture so that I can get at the C-G author paperbacks and the H-S author hardcovers. I haven't weeded them at all. Ideally, I'll be able to shift everything enough to clear the dining room shelves for some of the board games Scott has stacked on the floor. He's weeding those, just more slowly than I'm weeding the books, because he wants to play each of them at least once.

I also need to drag him to the basement to weed his books. I wouldn't keep the Dragonlance books, but he used to run a campaign in college and has major nostalgia about them. There are a couple of other largish sets that are 100% his. I'm not touching them unless he tells me it's okay. I'm also not touching anything that's in that gray area of belonging to both of us. At least, I'm trying not to.

( Talking about Yuletide sign ups )