04/11/21 Papermill Lock, chargers, antibodies

Went to Papermill Lock on the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation for a walk along the towpath and then lunch at the cafe (toasted cheese, red onion, and tomato sandwich with crisps and a pot of strangely unpleasant coleslaw. But I did finish it. We had a  small boat there years  ago and then sold it to move up to a share in a  syndicate narrowboat on the canals, and then a share in a cruiser on  the Norfolk Broads. But age and arthritis etc.caught up with us - and that was a few years before myeloma struck.  Should have done it long ago...

Note your indefatigable blogger well defended against the cold and the finger splits! And the cappuccino was not too bad at all.

I spent most of the evening re-organising my many chargers and rechargeable devices onto what is now the spare computer desk at the back of my study.  I've moved the rather old giant notebook HP computer that used to live there out - it hasn't got an operating system on it at the moment so it's been taking up space for no good reason. A "one of these days" project is to put an up-to-date Linux distro onto it.

That's not everything that could go there. Not by some distance.

This reorganisation needed quite a bit of getting down onto the floor and grovelling around under that desk. The getting down is easy but the getting up again is another matter...

The new micro-rash I mentioned yesterday hasn't developed any further and ,looks likely to fade away tomorrow. More of a micro-rash TBH, or even a nano-rash.

Best news of the day - the result of my COVID antibody test is in:

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Dear Mr Crisp

Your result is POSITIVE for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein antibody (>0.8 U/ml).

This means you have COVID-19 antibodies. Unfortunately, at this point in time we can’t say exactly what that means about long term immunity yet. 

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I'll settle for "Positive". That's very good news indeed.