Scattered Thoughts . . .

I suppose the title of this blog entry could lead people to believe I am referring to the weather but, unfortunately, I am referring to my health.   The weather is indeed still unseasonably warm with rain, sleet and ridiculously heavy snow like we are living in a coastal area hundreds of miles south of here so saying that the cold has returned would be appropriate if a normal northern mountain winter climate ever returns.  In this case, however, I am referring to a cold that I have had since just after Christmas! I've been feeling halfway decently for the past week suffering only from my primary illness and some lingering remnants of this season-long cold.  My nose had mostly dried up, finally...  cough mostly gone...  no sore throat...  aches and pains were more related to my primary illness at this point.  I still had a bit of gunk running down the back of my throat but the little bit I was experiencing was hardly worth mentioning.  I had thought (and hoped) that this two-mon

As I've mentioned in previous blog entries, I've been trying to recover from two months of illness progressing from a cold, to flu, and with a stomach virus bug developing sometime in the middle of all of this nonsense.  I've also had some issues with recurring headaches and focus issues which, I assume, are due to my mild TBI from this past summer.  The headaches I've had recently were the same as the headaches I experienced from the TBI so...  it is a fairly safe assumption that these headaches were due to lingering TBI problems.  I have had, however, a couple of hours here and there of decent enough health to start working on some small, light projects. One project I keep putting aside and then going back to is restoring a folding medium format film camera I recently picked up.  I did a lot of clean up already and this antique camera looks great but it still needs some work before I can load it with some medium format film and give it a whirl.  Shortly after pur

Another little project that I've been working on little by little is making some shelves for my cameras.  Camera and lens storage has been a problem for me for quite some time.  I have some cameras that I would like to display so some open shelves seemed like a good idea.   At some point down the road, I will need to build some sort of built-in cabinet for lenses and adapters.    I decided to make some floating shelves for the living room as well as for our bedroom.   What moved this project to the front burner was having our old surround sound somehow getting toasted due to a brown-out or surge.  The old surround sound was a sound bar that I had mounted rather inconspicuously on the wall underneath the television.  It was very compact for a home theatre sound package.  This new surround sound is better than the sound bar with many more options and has five separate speakers and a large receiver so it takes up more space and can be rather conspicuous and difficult to blend i