{"id":4681,"date":"2021-12-19T23:56:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T23:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:15:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:15:13","slug":"misc-enforced-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4681","title":{"rendered":"MiSC\/HEALTH & WELLBEiNG: Enforced Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It\u2019s surprising how hard it can be in modern life to really and truly do nothing. Even more tricky, perhaps, is \u2018switching off\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teresa, my adorable wife, has insisted that I do nothing<\/em>. I\u2019m not allowed out of the house, even! The reason being a recurrent chest infection I\u2019ve had three years on the trot, over winter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

X-Rays and antibiotics haven\u2019t got to the bottom of it, and what with me having a constellation of ailments in the background, it can be hard – impossible so far, it seems – to know what\u2019s going on. What is or are the root causes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the agrometer we have. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My mum and uncle both mentioned humidity in the home. And it\u2019s true that our heating has been an issue. We had a new boiler installed last year. So that\u2019s not such an issue any more. But humidity may be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I cracked out a digital Afro meter \u2026 er (predictive spelling, don\u2019t you love it!?)), agro<\/em>meter, we have. It said the humidity in our lounge was around 55% earlier today. It\u2019s now crept up to 66-67%!? Apparently 70% and over is unhealthy, and really, over 60% should entail the deployment of a dehumidifier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dumbkopf that I am I sold a rather flash humidifier and air-purifier we once had. How I wish we still had that! I think we may still have a small one laying around somewhere. Finding it is another thing altogether. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love this guy\u2019s videos, n\u2019 stuff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I\u2019m practically living on our sofa-bed, downstairs in the living room. And I\u2019ve been watching mucho YouTube, inc. lots of Stavros Gakos (handplane making, and such like), Colin Furze (loud and loony: I particularly dig – see what I did there? – his bunker and underground tunnels; childhood dreams of my own!), and plenty o\u2019 snooker!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alcohol is out, by command of she who must be obeyed, and I\u2019m not even reading, never mind making, repairing or doing something musical or arty. Under such sorghum-stenches it\u2019s hard not go for the screens and social media. Indeed, impossible, I find! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, all in all, I think it\u2019s the right thing. Keep the home warm and dry, totally relax and look after myself. Can\u2019t be bad, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last few things I was doing, friday, before \u2018shutdown\u2019, were: building shelves in the workshop, creating a neck\/fretboard blank (in rosewood) for the Hofner Congress, and applying a wrap to an old tom, as part of converting it into a marching drum style snare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hardest thing is not continuing with these projects, as I feel compelled to keep such things bubbling over. Truth be told I snuck in a little bit of work on the snare, opening some holes for mounting the head tensioning hardware. That\u2019s something I felt was such light work I could do it supine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mellie Xmas!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And a little writing of Xmas cards and the wrappage of some giftabubbles was also smuggled in. Oh! A quick glance at the agrometer reveals it is – or so it tells me – now down to 59% humidity. And up from 16\u00b0C to 18.9\u00b0C. I do hope this device is accurate. The room feels no different! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And back on the TV, on YouTube, Sonnie O\u2019Rollivan just made a pig\u2019s ear of a shot\u2026 \u2018Oh dear!\u2019 quoth Neal Foulds (or was it the other guy?). But, amazingly, and in a reversal of the previous frame – in which Ronnie bizarrely allowed Trump to win a frame by escaping a safety shot snooker with a pot – The Rocket repaid the compliment, albeit in an entirely different looking scenario. I do love snooker!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, time to get offa the devices. And settle in for some snooker induced \u2018somnia\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s surprising how hard it can be in modern life to really and truly do nothing. Even more tricky, perhaps, is \u2018switching off\u2019. Teresa, my adorable wife, has insisted that I do nothing. I\u2019m not allowed out of the house, even! The reason being a recurrent chest infection I\u2019ve had three years on the trot, … <\/p>\n

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