Scattered Thoughts . . .

I 'm still dealing with evening fevers and generally feeling like crap d ue to this latest bout with COVID.  After two months of miserable, painful health, this is getting old. I feel halfway decent in the morning but then, after my afternoon nap, I feel quite lousy again.  The fever comes back and I simply feel miserable.  You'd think that after napping for a couple of hours, I would feel pretty good again but that has never been the case any of the seven or eight times I've had COVID.  I get up from my nap hoping to feel fairly well but I feel feverish and my headache is back.  And, worse yet, nothing seems to cut the pain of this COVID headache. My breathing is still worse than usual too.  I really need to find the energy to do the PT for breathing and clearing out the lungs that I have done every time I've had this virus.   Anyway, that is the latest news on my health. EDIT:  The following morning - By the time we went to bed last night,...

I moved my new mini computer from the kitchen table to my desk in the bedroom yesterday.  I think I'm finished moving stuff from my older desktop computer to this new computer so it was time to move it to the bedroom desk.  Besides, it was getting old having this computer temporarily taking up space on our kitchen table! This morning, I installed a small shelf on the wall under the desk for my new hard drive enclosure.  That worked out well.  The cooling fan in this enclosure is a bit loud when this enclosure is sitting right on the desk so I wanted to place it under the desk where it is hardly heard at all.  I have a remote outlet arriving tomorrow so I can turn this enclosure on and off without having to duck under the desk to manually use the switch on the back of the enclosure.  Now that I finally had this new mini computer connected to my good IPS 4K monitor, it was time to calibrate the display so the colors are accurate.  This is definitely nee...

I 've already mentioned in a few blog entries that I picked up COVID while at the hospital for my partially amputated thumb (table saw accident) but I'll quickly explain again in this next paragraph.   While we were in the waiting room of the emergency department, an elderly woman sat down behind us and she was clearly having trouble breathing and was constantly coughing up a lung.  We instantly suspected she had COVID so we were looking forward to one of us being pulled out of the waiting room as soon as possible.  Within about five minutes, we were called into Trauma.  I thanked the nurse for calling us in so quickly and explained that I'd like to avoid exposure to COVID and mentioned the elderly woman coughing up a lung in the waiting room.  Within about five or seven days, both Sheila and I were sick with typical COVID symptoms.  We had been nowhere else so we knew this was the exposure that sickened us. I had the very unique "razor blade" sore th...

O n the last day of our trip in June out to the midwest with Lukey and Kenzie, we spent some time at the Newport Aquarium in Kentucky.  Other than the two leg train ride back home, this would be the last of our sightseeing.   We almost missed seeing the aquarium.  We had no idea that they only let in visitors by appointment only.  We experienced this at various museums during the pandemic but never expected to encounter this after the pandemic.  Once we arrived at the aquarium, we realized why reservations were required.  It is clearly a very popular destination and the building is only so large.  Even with a scheduled appointment, the aquarium was so crowded it made seeing things moderately difficult.  Without controlling the number of people in the aquarium, we wouldn't have been able to see a thing! When we arrived at the aquarium, it was sunny out and the temperature was in the triple digits.  Our clothes were completely soaked in sw...