90% better

 

Slow recovery

After a few days of incremental improvement, I can now declare that I'm almost better. I have a bit of gunk on my chest, but not so much to make my breathing difficult. I have cottonwool in my head, but it's now close to the normal amount.


So, it's time to get productive again. More Blender School and a return to the Service Road work. 

A weekend of scatter play

Although I wasn't very productive, I spent the weekend creating terrains and placing the first round of scatters. World Creator 2025.2 was released on Friday. Its new features help improve material blending by providing sharper noise filters and the ability to show colour soaking into alluvial flows. I might see if I can test the effects, but my workflow won't benefit from them.

Energy slump

 The data said "great night's sleep", the body said "ugggggghhhhhh". I struggled to get out of bed. Me, whom my wife has regularly accused of being a "morning person". This may be the tail-end of this infection, or perhaps this time of year is my peak SAD (Seasonally Affected Disorder) time? Anyway you spin it, I'm barely functional.

True Terrain Sketchbook

I should have completed a couple of Blender School lessons, but I'm not sure I'd get any benefit from them. Tomorrow I'll be closer to being back on track.

Not recovered, but somewhere along the road

I still feel pretty bad

It's a Monday morning. I spent the weekend urgently trying to get better. Lots of attempts at extra sleep, a bit of exercise, but nothing excessive. Usually, two rest days go a long way towards recovery from a regular infection. The good news is that after a good night's sleep, I woke up yesterday feeling like the worst was over. The bad news is that these things can have a long tail. I might feel ill for a long while, even though I no longer feel terrible. I'll look on the bright side -- I'm not hospitalised from a runaway COVID infection, and I didn't fall ill in the days leading up to our trip to the Netherlands. So there you go. My worst bout of sickness in years.

So it's True Terrain time! Feels like reruns...

Under the weather

I have flu-like symptoms, just under a week since I got the flu jab. It could be COVID. It's not kept me off work, but I have zero energy or effectiveness.

Naturally, I have been treading water, creatively. Rendering World Creator terrains using True Terrain 5.

It passes the time, but doesn't move me forward. If I'm feeling better over the weekend, I'll embark on more Blender-School.

Battlefield 6 releases today. I've always been a big fan of the franchise. I liked the last one, but I didn't love it and stopped playing because, at the time, it was crashing my system due to a CPU stability problem. I am probably going to get it, and it will cost me some productivity.