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Camera Restoration Coming Along

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I'm still see-sawing between halfway decent health and rather crappy health.  It seems that this has become my typical winter routine.  I seem to get through Christmas feeling "okay" but then I develop the flu or a cold by New Year's Eve and it lingers until Spring.  This year has been just like that as I continue to oscillate between mediocre health (occasionally) and rather miserable health (usually) which borders mostly on the miserable end of the spectrum.   I think the most difficult thing about this long-term, lingering 'cold' is that even on the few short-lived relatively good days, I am ready to head back to bed by 9am.  The fatigue I am experiencing is absolutely brutal.  The next thing worth mentioning is bone and joint pain as well as a general malaise.  The pain is brutal too but this is a common complaint throughout the year anyway.  Experiencing this pain when feeling lousy in other ways, however, takes a bit more out of you than usual. Anywa

Waiting on Parts

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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