How strange my mind-body works. Last week I got a bit of tummy bug involving fever and running to the toilet a lot. So over 4 days I reduced my diet to lots of water and just dry food in the hopes of starving off the bug. By Sunday evening I was starting to eat a normal meal again. I still reduced the amount of dairy stuff I was eating till Wednesday or so. But a weird thing happened when I started back using dairy again: I don’t like tea any more. 

If you know me, you know I drink copious amounts of tea. In work, I regularly drink four to six very large mugs of tea during the day and I continue that rate into the evening too. But now, when I drink tea I don’t like it. I only sip it a bit, nearly out of just habit. The reason is that the taste of milk in my tea is overpowering, and not that particularly nice. Before I got sick I didn’t notice it at all, but now I find it awful. And I’m not sure I like tea without milk! What is strange is that I have no problem with milk in my breakfast cereals or cream on my pasta. Just in tea.

It’s really odd experience. For example in the evening after dinner I have a craving for a nice cup of tea and relax on the sofa  while the kids are finally in bed. However I hold back, remembering the taste of milk, but still having that carving, but nothing to fill it. It leaves me a bit restless, not sure how to fulfil the craving. Most of the time I just go and relax anyway and forget about it. 

Luckily though I beating back my new found aversion by just regular cups of tea over the course of the day. The taste of milk is still quite powerful but it’s getting less.

I could read in this some depressing thought about humans (i.e. me) are just creatures of habit and we don’t really change, but who cares. I need my little drop of caffeine okay?

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Last night, I didn’t sleep well. The recent changeable weather has given me a rather nasty chesty cough. My eyes are sore, I’m tired and flushed the whole time. The kids and my wife are all suffering too and there is nothing besides cough syrups and rest for it (and as parents you’re never really allowed to rest).

I couldn’t get to sleep right. I kept replaying stuff from the day in my head. Nothing critical. But I woke early this morning and I was re-playing code through my head. Running through functions, testing various inputs, visualising outputs. At the same time, interjected with scenes and thoughts about worries. It wasn’t just odd but exhausting, like my head couldn’t handle it. I felt miserable and I couldn’t get out of bed when the alarm clock went. Normally, no matter what my state, I get out of bed on time. I may still be half asleep, but I get out of bed and start into the motions. This time I couldn’t. Pushed the clock away. Let everyone sleep.

What is fascinating though, is that I found a security leak in my code from that weird dream. I tested it this morning, confirmed my suspicions and I patched it in an hour or so.

Feeling better now with the sun beaming brightly. It’s still wind and cold-ish. But the dose of sunlight has really done my head well.

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