Fell In love With A Girl

A long time ago, when I was but a wee teenager, I watched a few episodes of this show on television.

I had watched Star Trek Voyager and some of The Next Generation, but DS9 didn't seem to be my cup of tea -- Earl Grey or otherwise.

However, a while ago -- probably a little over a year ago -- I started watching all of Star Trek. Started with The Original Series, moved on to The Next Generation. Finished TNG a week or two ago, and have moved on to DS9.

It's still on Netflix here, so before Paramount yanks all of it, I want to get us much seen as I can. So I sincerely hope I can still rewatch Voyager after DS9 and Enterprise after that, and maybe the three films from the "alternate universe" with Chris Pine as Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock.

So... Deep Space Nine... I'm almost halfway season 2 and I haven't turned it off yet. Not all characters are of interest and I find my attention slipping when there's little to no Kira or Dax in an episode. Odo and Quark's relationship is amusing. Bashir makes me roll my eyes a lot. O'Brien is fun and Sisko has the habit of annoying me at times. I tolerate his existence. To clarify, he has his moments.

But Jadzia Dax and Kira Nerys... now there's a pair I love watching -- together, apart, being epic people, getting stuff done, ... They work quite well together. =D

Got my booster shot today. I was #TeamPfizer but after today that's no longer true. My booster was from the Moderna variety.

Friend of mine got hers last week and she already advised to drink a lot and to take a painkiller before going to bed. I started drinking a lot but I'm not in the habit of doing the liter a day thing so it's a bit of a struggle with my water bottle at the moment. I think I'm at a little over half a liter at the moment.

She was feeling tired the next day so I already warned my colleagues and my teamlead that I might be absent tomorrow, depends on how the next few hours evolve. My arm is definitely going to hurt, which it has done the two times before, and when I got my Tetanus shot in april last year.

The vaccination centre was a lot more welcoming too. Less background noises, which as an autist I can only applaud. There were teddybears and superheroes on the walls, and a playground in the waiting area... for the all the kids that are coming in for their vaccination. I absolutely loved it.

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Then on the less than exciting news side, my teamlead organized a workshop on friday (a month or 2 ago already, when omicron wasn't a problem yet) which is in person. I thought it would be delayed because of the high infectionrates but nope... turns out it will go ahead as planned, 8 of us, among whom there are 2 unvaccinated, in a big room (or so I've been told). It's a workshop around artificial intelligence so it's hard to be not excited about it going forward... but omicron dammit.

One thing's for sure, I'm masking up with FFP2 and I'm driving back home over lunch. I'm not going to stick around the office the rest of the day. I already spend my 1-day-a-week at the office this week. Not making it 2.

Happy new year to all of you!

I don't know about you but I'm going to tiptoe into 2022, walk with caution and hope it's a better year than the one we just left behind.

Omicron infections are on the rise. I have yet to receive my boostershot -- scheduled for the 12th of January. I'll be doing a Pfizer/Moderna crossover -- vaccinated with Pfizer and boosted with Moderna.

I won't do new year's resolutions -- they're just going to end up out the window anyway -- but I do want to try and be more active again. Share more of my interests and stuff.

We'll see.

In the meantime... stay healthy! Stay safe!!

Received my invitation in my e-box today... #TeamPfizer

My scheduled appointment is set for thursday 17/06 for the first shot, and the second will be on the 22/O7.

I'm so, so, so happy!! And excited and relieved... waited so long, like a million corona years.

I'm not even an American but I'm absolutely buzzing today.

Obviously watched the inauguration. Was still technically working but turned up the stream and put my availability status on "Do not disturb -- inauguration President Biden & Vice-President Harris". =D

A WOMAN OF INDIAN-AMERICAN DECENT IS VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE USA!!!

Also, Biden's inaugural address -- such a brilliant speech.

AND OH MY GODDESS... that National Youth Poetry Laureate ... that was EPIC!!

... one chapter at a time...

My current list:

( Once upon a time... )

...with a cold...

...considering the relation it has to that other bug going around, everyone running around with a cold or the flu is confined to quarters all the same.

I'm sneezing my head off. My nose is stuffed. I can't smell a thing. There's the occasional coughing but generally I'm just running through our stockpile of Kleenex. =S

I work from home all week, or don't work at all since my sick leave states I shouldn't actually have to work, but my Doctor said if I felt okay enough that I could. I will or I'll go stir crazy otherwise. Besides, my sister is working from home too so there's the two us, sharing an improvised "office space", listening to the top 500 of the Nineties -- oh, what lovely music we had back in the day. :D No really, I'm loving it! :D

Also, I'm watching Star Trek the original series, or as I generally like to call it --> The Adventures of Captain "I have the emotional range of a teaspoon" Kirk and his Trusted Sidekick, Mr. Spock

Braincells are dying by the dozens going through these episodes. Oye vey!

To all of my British friends who had no desire to leave the European Union... always welcome over here!

Those who voted leave -- tell me again why we are connected? Or how the EU mistreated you in any way? What happened that "leave" sounded like a good option?

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To all of my American friends, in between all the brexit posts I saw that #MoscowMitch pulled off the sham impeachment trial by not allowing witnesses and evidence to be put forward. The Republicans choosing power over the constitution seems to be a regular thing now.

I suggest you get busy and vote those clowns into oblivion, and by the gods and everything that's holy... get that orange clown out of the White House -- for goddess' sake, the embarrasment is becoming taxing. Plenty candidates on both sides of the aisle who are far more qualified for the job.

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In the meantime... Belgium still has no federal government, and it's been 250 days since the elections. The record of forming a government is at 541 days, and yes, we are in fact mentioned in the Guinness World Record Book with that dubious title. =P

Mind you, while there is currently no federal government, we do have our Flemish one, the one down south for the Walloon half and there's the German one in the east of the country (took that bit of land from Germany after WWII)... Oh, and I almost forgot, Brussels has one too.

We're a federal Kingdom -- it's complicated. =P

I started the Python coding course in September.

Always wanted to try it, so when it was offered in the evening-classes curriculum, I jumped right in and enrolled (cause last year I was too late to do so).

On top of getting in, I was excited to learn that our company's chatbot makes use of some python coding so I could actually make use of it at work too. My colleagues told me to let the company pay for the course but I didn't want to do that because it creates a certain expectation and I didn't want that pressure.

I was going to satisfy an interest that I had, and on the off chance that it wasn't gonna work out, I didn't want the stress of having to finish because they expect me to do so.

Anywho, I'm coming up on the end of the first semester, which officially ends on the 25th of January, and our final project should be a mini escape room game. There are a few things that have to be in there, but theme and riddles can be anything we want (mine is Star Wars themed).

We don't have exams or tests. 70% of scoring goes to exercises throughout the semester (I'm approx. 10 exercises short of having them all finished), and 30% goes to the final project so I should be alright.

Sidenote: the running joke on the exercises, at my expense, is that they are all math problems and I just don't understand those very well. Therefore, one of the comments my teacher made while she was looking them over was that I definitely had coding logic, but I utterly lack every math-logic in existence. *shrug* I know. =P

I wasn't going to enroll in the next half of the course, which goes more in depth, unless I was able to make the escape room game work at least halfway decent. I thought even that goal was unreachable because I had the foggiest how to start... Turns out, it wasn't that hard to reach and I'm about to sacrifice some more saturday morning ly-ins to learn more coding. =P

Looking forward to learning how to code a simple game like pong. =D
I'll have no doubt, I'll be cursing the code because the escape room is literally written one line at the time, and it's like 5 lines written, 3 lines back cause something is horribly wrong. =P Debugging -- I'm getting quite good at it these days.

I briefly mentioned in my previous post -- and can I just say that my Jodie as the Doctor icon keeps distracting me -- that I hadn't gotten around to posting my 2018 fandom_stocking fanfics yet.

Turns out I missed a couple and haven't actually written them yet... -- scratch that -- ... I was looking at the wrong list. I have written them all and posted all, bar one. I switched 3 people's gifts from fanfic to jigsaw puzzles and a wallpaper so I'm only 1 fic short at the moment.

So... anyone up to beta a rewrite of a fanfic that was beta'd but requires a second opinion now that I've pretty much rewritten the entire second half of the 2-page fic?

It's Stargate Atlantis. Kate/Teyla friendship or implied or relationship (whichever carries your fancy). It's Doctor Who-themed but no knowledge of the show required (you can pretend to be Teyla in this case who also can't make heads or tails to Kate's Whovian words).

'K thanks!