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Having finally gotten Covid I have to say the most surprising thing has been how long it takes to crawl out of the exhaustion hole. Normally with a cold or the flu, a couple of days after the symptoms start to abate there's this rush of restored health and with all the endorphins kicking in you feel better than you did before you got sick. This has not been my experience at all with Covid. My symptoms started improving about a week ago and still, as soon as the sun goes down I feel completely wiped out and all I want to do is curl up on the couch and pass out. And this is with the benefit of being vaxxed and boosted and not catching it until the milder variants became dominant. It's definitely worse than "just a bad flu."

Friends, I'm gonna steal a page from nostr:npub18ljjwuh8vt0lrh3fe3vsefddt40u297gtsk3d4v4ywhjnvms9zfqy480hq and ask a QUESTION. What's the best live music show you've been to? Or more accurately, what was your favorite?

I'll go first. For me it was Tears For Fears in 2014. I had just moved to Portland and Project Pabst was having its inaugural season in a hot sweaty gravel pit that was at once stifling and full of glorious potential. I was there mainly for Violent Femmes but I stayed for Tears For Fears because I remembered them mostly as a band my mom liked when she was somewhere around the age I was at the time (early 30s). I went in with zero expectations and was completely blown away. They played the hits without making them feel dated and new stuff without it feeling indulgent. They had enough of the original lineup to stay authentic but enough fresh blood to keep it interesting. I'm currently in a bar that serves strong drinks at a reasonable price and Everybody Wants To Rule The World started playing and brought me back to that amazing show.

So what show was it for you?

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