Aaron Parecki

oh hey, I can actually kind of taste this Gouda cheese. Not sure if that's because my smell is recovering or because Gouda is a super strong flavor tho 🤷‍♂️

Bad news, the rapid antigen test is still positive. But I am apparently still allowed to go outside because I have the negative PCR test and finished the quarantine period.

Looks like the theory is it's most contagious from a few days before symptoms develop to a few days after, so I'm significantly less contagious now. Plus of course still masking. Anyway, will probably spend the rest of the day inside the hotel room anyway.

So I guess that means it's too early to book a flight out of here still. I need a negative test to get the boarding pass for the flight, and the PCR tests take ~12-24 hours to come back, so it will have to be an antigen test. At least now I can go outside to do the rapid antigen test every day now.

Good news! Yesterday morning's test came back negative! I'm definitely still feeling a little bit sick though, but the covid officer says I can go outside with a mask on now!

Since today is Sunday and things are closed, my morning test probably won't come back until late Monday night. Time to go do a rapid antigen test to double check the negative result now.

Not being able to taste anything sure puts a damper on my interest in eating. I'm sure that avocado toast was delicious though.

on second thought, uploading this 20gb video to youtube on hotel wifi may not be the best plan

I'm sitting in my hotel room eating this müsli with yogurt and strawberries thinking "wow these strawberries sure don't have much flavor" ...and then it hit me...

I opened up Thursday's leftovers of extremely pungent lentil salad with blue cheese and it doesn't smell like anything either.

The only thing I can smell is the hand sanitizer which frankly was way too smelly before, that and a hint of coffee.

Gotta love IETF conferences. I connect to the event wifi and discover that my laptop has a publicly routable IPv4 address 😮

Thanks for having me! It was so fun to see all the 3D printers at work making my stands!

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