Mush

Three weeks ago, on the Sunday I started getting things wrong with the final bit of one of the apps I've been writing.

Around 8pm I gave up and went to a local bar which has a good selection of real ales.

I have a couple there, maybe three.

The next day I felt awful. Not from the beer but fever and sore throat etc. and generally very week. I think the problems I had with the app were crypto symptoms of the virus that was infecting me.

I worsened and worsened. The next week I was able to go to the doctor who confirmed my fever and told me there was an epidemic in Munich and that expecting it to take a week to recover was a bit optimistic.

During this time I couldn't even look at the app. In fact, getting to the sofa was an achievement.

By the end of the second week I sent a support request to Appery.io who gently advised me of the flipping obvious problem.

On Monday of this week, the third week of this malaise, I was able to go into the centre of Munich and do some shopping. There's a quite good basement supermarket in one of the department stores.

I didn't buy anything there but found myself taking the escalator up to the ground floor and exit. Whilst carrying a shopping basket. I realised just in time: it was close but I narrowly avoided shop lifting an empty shopping basket.

So even this week I haven't been switched on.

I did carefully play around with the app in the last couple of days but got quite into a tizz about it. Although Appery had solved one problem for me there is now another one.

Today has been the only day I have felt up to writing a full support ticket to them (or indeed update this blog). So that is basically three weeks wasted due to influenza.

Meanwhile my business partner has also been ill. And so has another associate who has been helping out on the business plan.

And the business who was very keen to beta test our app has closed down. No doubt we will find others.