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A day off

This virus weakened me completely. I still feel under the weather and so powerless that merely taking Abby for her evening walk felt like a heroic struggle. The lack of food wasn't helpful either, I reckon. The three bananas and some cooked potatoes gave me little strength. Anyway, I feel hungry, which is a good sign, so hopefully, I'll get over this nasty virus by tomorrow. Till then, I'll put myself onto a charger during the night to be as right as rain.

Apart from reading an article in English today on aperture.gg about how Earth is running out of time due to the dire side-effects of climate change, I couldn't study because I couldn't concentrate on anything, so I decided to watch a few silly movies in the afternoon. The first film was the exceptionally silly 'Underwater' about deep-sea scientists working on the bottom of the Mariana Trench. There was some catastrophe causing the whole station to collapse, induced by a monster, and the entire plot was about how a couple of heroes survived. The movie resembled the famous 'Alien' film, but underwater. Nothing new under the sun. The other movie was the 'Planet of the Apes' (2001 edition), which we'd seen already but seemed a good choice to rest my eyes at.

Well, the weather has changed, not as much as we know who, and the cold gale-force wind - the strongest gusts reached 114 km/h - cleared the air completely. The temperatures dropped significantly, so the weather was unpleasant today. According to the weather forecast, it gets better gradually, but till then, we must endure the whims of the passing winter reserves for us.
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