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Mar 06, 2020 08:17AM
Many , many blessings are in story! Enjoy!
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Thanks, Georgann! (Your prediction was absolutely correct, and we definitely did enjoy. :-) )
Today, I'm carrying a fever (low, but it's unusual for me to have one at all), and fighting a sore throat and cough. There's no reason to automatically jump to the conclusion that it's coronavirus; but I do expect to be mostly offline for the next little while. But I hope to be back with you all very soon!
Hope you feel better soon, Werner. And that it isn't you know what-or the flu either.
Thanks, Rosemarie! Surprisingly, although my fever has risen as of the last time I took my temperature, I'm actually feeling better than I did this morning. My throat's not sore at the moment, and I'm not congested, so I've felt well enough to get back online. :-)
Well, I was running a very slight fever when I got up yesterday morning, which rose through the day (though 99.4 was the highest it ever got, before I went to bed; my temperature is nearly normal today), and to cut to the chase, the test shows that I do have COVID-19. (Thankfully, at least as yet, Barb does not.) So I need to quarantine here at home through Dec. 9. However, it appears to be a mild case that's not life-threatening, and I actually feel pretty well. During the day, I'm quarantining in my home office; I have access to my PC, and to books, so things aren't nearly as bad as they could be.
Oh no, hang in there Werner!! Glad it's fairly mild so far and hope it stays that way. I have family members who just went through it and had most of the symptoms, even the uncommon rash on the back.😳 It was rough for them. Prayers for a speedy recovery!🙏🙏🙏
I'm glad it's just a mild case, Werner-and that it stays that way and you don't share it with anyone.
Thanks, Vickie and Rosemarie! Vickie, glad your family members are over it.
By way of an update with some good news, my quarantine period ended last night, and I was re-tested and pronounced virus-free earlier today. So I'm no longer on the sick list! Barb's quarantine period will continue at least through Dec. 13, so we need to keep on isolating from each other here in the house; but if she's well enough by Dec. 14, she'll be re-tested then. I'm very thankful to have come through this experience as well as I did, and I want to express my heartfelt sympathy to those who continue to have side effects, or who have lost family members to this scourge.
I'm glad, relieved and thankful to be able to let everybody know that Barb tested negative for COVID earlier today. So, we can now both put our quarantining behind us, and get back to a more normal life (or at least as normal as things get in this very abnormal year!). Thanks to everyone for all of the kind concern, thoughts and prayers so many have extended over the past two weeks!
Werner wrote: "I'm glad, relieved and thankful to be able to let everybody know that Barb tested negative for COVID earlier today. So, we can now both put our quarantining behind us, and get back to a more normal..."So glad you and Barb are virus-free! That's excellent news!
Early tomorrow morning, Barb and I will be leaving for a visit to her side of the family (due to the pandemic, we haven't seen any of these folks since the summer of 2019, so it's a long overdue visit!) in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia. (We were going to leave today, but changed our plans --long story.) We expect to return by late Friday afternoon; but I'll be mostly offline in the interim, due to limited Internet access. But I'll look forward to being back this weekend!
My Internet access will be spotty for awhile. The Firefox browser capability on my home computer has been disabled, apparently by a Trojan-horse virus disguised as a normal Firefox update, and I can't get functional browsing screens on the other browsers. The computer will probably have to go into the shop for repairs, and there's no telling how long that may take. So I only have Internet access on my office computer, before work or during lunch breaks. :-(
Yay! I was able to get Internet access through the Microsoft Edge browser after all. (I didn't try that one this morning, and I should have!) So, all's well that ends well. :-)
Just by way of heads-up, on Monday I'll be leaving for another several days of vacation, visiting family, which will keep me offline from Aug. 2 into the afternoon of Friday, Aug. 6. (At least, that's the plan at this point!) I thought I had better explain that now, in case I didn't get a chance to post it later, since this will be a busy weekend for me.
Looking for friends here with similar interests, so feel free to add me : )
Nikkie wrote: "Looking for friends here with similar interests, so feel free to add me : )" Me, too. Welcome, Nikkie!
Yes, Nikkie, welcome to the group! You might be interested in introducing yourself on this thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... .
I posted this comment back in November on a thread of its own; but I thought people might be more apt to see it if I posted it here, too!Earlier this year (as usual, without announcing it to anybody! :-( ), Goodreads apparently changed the default setting on our accounts, at the part where we specify who can send personal messages to us. Formerly, the default setting was that any Goodreader could message us, but we could limit that to our Goodreads friends. Now, all accounts are switched to the other way around; only our friends can message us, unless we go into our personal account settings and allow other members in general to do so. I only learned this through a post about it in another group.
You may not have a preference anyway, or may prefer to only allow your friends to message you; in that case, you don't need to do anything. In my case, though, there have been times when non-friends needed to ask me something, or when I needed to contact someone I'm not friends with; so in those instances, the more general setting can be an advantage. (If you change your setting, remember to click "Save" at the bottom of the page!)
The Goodreads management recently announced that, as of Sept. 1, they're discontinuing a number of features on this site. Most of these are relatively minor, such as our personal Favorite Authors list. But one feature being discontinued is unique to the Goodreads Author profiles, and one which a number of authors use: the Writings page, where we could post samples of our writing (stories, excerpts, etc.) for other Goodreaders to read for free. After Sept. 1, no new writings can be posted, and my understanding is that the existing Writings pages will all be deleted.There are good reasons why authors, in an online community centered around reading such as this one, might wish to share free content, and why others might enjoy reading it. To provide an alternative venue for this sort of sharing, your moderators invite any of you, who want to, to create a thread in the "Group members who write/publish" folder (here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group... ) for your own writing. You're welcome to copy-and-paste content from your Writings page (while it still exists!), or to add new work. Please just create one thread per person for this purpose! (You may have to split longer writings into more than one comment, because of "character" limits for each comment box.) Also, for those of you who have blogs, you can post creative writing there and link to it in the same folder.
It's been confirmed by testing that Barb and I both have Covid. At last report, my temperature was 101.1 degrees, and I've been told to isolate until Sunday (assuming that I'm symptom-free by then), and to wear a mask for five days after that. (I've also been told to rest, so I'll keeping a low profile here on Goodreads for a while.) We aren't expected to need medical attention; and we're in good spirits!
That's too bad, but it's good to hear you're in good spirits. Just take it easy and relax as much as you can.
Yesterday, I hacked my bloated to-read shelf total (which I try to keep under 400) down to 380 books, by deleting all those that seemed intriguing years ago, but which by now I realize that I'm not really very invested in reading. (That was accompanied in some cases by a similar culling of my also bloated physical TBR piles; but luckily, I work for a library, so it's easy to make donations!)On the other hand, I also have a LOT of books on my "maybe" shelf, some of which deserve promotion to the next level; and there are some more I've seen, on Goodreads or on the BU library shelves, that I know I'd like to read. So over the next day or two, I expect to have some fun filling out the to-read shelf again. :-) It's an endless process; but then, who would ever want his/her to-read shelf to be completely empty?
Wow! So, you've been doing a little Swedish Death Cleaning. Hope it wasn't too painful!What is at the top of your current TBR list?
Deb wrote: "Wow! So, you've been doing a little Swedish Death Cleaning. Hope it wasn't too painful!What is at the top of your current TBR list?"
Hmmm! Even though I'm of Swedish stock, I'd never heard of "Swedish death cleaning," so I Googled it. (Never let it be said that being on Goodreads isn't educational!) No, it wasn't painful, since I didn't get rid of anything I really wanted to keep. In this case, though, the cleaning was for my benefit, not that of my heirs, since they won't inherit my Goodreads account when I pass on. :-)
The first book on my Goodreads "to-read" shelf is Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James; but that's only because I've never ranked them in any order but the one in which they were added, and that one was added back in 2008, the year I joined Goodreads. (It was probably the first one I happened to add, unless I've read an earlier addition or two in the years since.) But the next one from that shelf that I'll read is a Dickens novel, Martin Chuzzelwit. I'll read The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral with this group first; but that's coming up so quick I didn't bother putting that book on the to-read shelf. (It would have needed moving to "currently reading" pretty quick! :-) )
Supernatural Fiction Readers
Books mentioned in this topic
Collected Ghost Stories (other topics)The Entity (other topics)
The Entity (other topics)
A Dirty Job (other topics)
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M.R. James (other topics)Christopher Moore (other topics)
