Winter 2015 December 31 Thursday

33 degrees this morning, no walk icy plus still coughing

I was actually somewhat surprised to see that the last day of 2015 was actually here.  I write “2015” so much (in my job etc.), it is somewhat of a shock to realize I won’t write it again, at least except in the historical sense.  

Still have cough, this is one of the longest lingering coughs I have had. I did have something similar (except it was actual whooping cough) about 10 years ago and then I had a coughing spell last Summer.  I always worry that “this time” I will never fully recover, but hopefully that won’t be the case.  I feel a lot better than I did a week ago.  

Got a different oxygen machine for Sleep Apnea.  It  actually has a cell phone apparatus that calls in the  results each night and I can also review them on the internet.  That will be interesting.  

I think it is similar to what I wrote about the other day, that the advancements in technology and “robot” devices that assist and perform functions that will expand human efforts.  This will actually provide a daily reading of how much I sleep (maybe except for my naps), sleep patterns, any sleep disturbances (or I believe they call them “incidents” when your breathing slows etc.) , pulse etc. and who knows what else.  

I am supposed to use it on my naps, and I probably well on most of my naps, except that I don’t really plan on moving it around, so I normally won’t use it on some naps.  

Probably one of the biggest problems with this is privacy.  You can about figure that anything that goes out on the internet is fair game and eventually will become public. Not that I care in this case, but there are a lot of medical items someone wouldn’t want publicized.

Also, who knows, I probably signed away the rights to the data for research etc. Again, not that it really matters, but….  It is kind of disturbing to know that someone has access to my data.  

Of course, I think the big thing will be medical records.  While I don’t really care, if someone can access medical records and just spread them on the internet like they have other information, who can really stop it?

Then, you have the question, is stolen information that is posted on the internet, then public information that can be used by the press, civiil courts, employers etc?  A lot of questions!

The transition to a New Year is always (or at least usually) a time of thought for me as I plan for the year ahead.  

This year seemed to creep up on me.  I think not being able to exercise (walk, swim, bike etc.) has eliminated a lot of my “thought time” when I just have the time to randomly think about anything and everything.  

It seems I would have an equal amount of time to just randomly think, it’s just I wouldn’t be while I was exercising  However, it really doesn’t work that way.  Somehow the “new” time I have from missing my exercise just kind of vaporizes. 

Part of the “new time” is taken up just from being sick.  It is time-consuming to be sick! Of course, I sleep more, but also it just takes more effort to do things.  Also, I think I tend to “piddle” since my morning especially is so structured.  

One of my first actions in the New Year will be getting over this cold and getting back into exercising!  

I wish everything a rewarding 2016.  The year is a blank slate I will fill in each day.

That’s it for now, Thursday, December 31, 2015.  

Winter 20i15 December 30 Wednesday: Earthquake!

30  degrees this morning.  No walk (ice, cough)

Earthquake!  I am now a believer!  I know I felt my first Earthquake Tuesday morning at 5:40 a.m., a 4.3 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter about 5 miles away from us.  It was felt statewide.

Anyway, after avoiding it for over a year, I paid .99 cents for an improved “earthquake app” in a matter of one minute!  

It was more of a roar than a vibration, it felt like there was a bunch of snow on the roof that feel off.

Fortunately, we didn’t have any damage.  A few places at the “epicenter” had electricity knocked out and some minor damage.

We also felt/heard the aftershock, a 3.4 magnitude about 10 minutes later.  

What was strange was that the “bang” and  the vibration seemed to be away from where the actual earthquake was.  The earthquake was almost directly east, but all of the noise and vibration was on the south.  It also seemed to be high rather than low.

Anyway, if I’m never in another one, it will be  too soon!

Still have my cough  I thought I was over it yesterday and either as part of the process or because I did too much, the cough returned last night  I am actually getting close to the 18 days predicted for the other person that had a cough like mine.  It will be14 days Friday or Saturday.

I was hoping I could start at least walking again this weekend, but that doesn’t look likely now.  The coughing/cold completely changes your life while you have the symptoms.

I think we are so accustomed to modern medicine, it is difficult to believe (at least subconsciously) that there isn’t a medicine that will cure everything.  Of course, I hear all the time that there is’t a medicine for everything, but somehow it is difficult to think that there isn’t a medicine that at least will stop your cough etc.  

Perhaps it is the same  reason  that we have nerves our body, so we are warned of dangers that may be more significant if we don’t pay attention.  

I remember when I was a child saying that it would be nice if you didn’t have nerves so you wouldn’t feel pain etc. when you touched a stove etc.  (probably I had just read about someone who didn’t feel pain).  

Of course, I was advised that pain is a warning signal, that you need to take your hand away from the fire or whatever!  I figure a cough/cold is the same way, if I cough when I do do much in cold air, there is a reason I need to change what I do in cold air!  

Hopefully it will warm up soon, although there is another storm coming in.  Of course, it is Winter and things like that happen!  

I really haven’t done to much of a retrospective of 2015, or 2014 for that matter.  I normally don’t spend a lot of time looking back.  Maybe I should, but except for learning from events (and hopefully I learned at the time), I don’t spend a lot of time looking back, either crowing about successes or mounting the failures and bad events.  

That is something I never did, ether professionally or personally.  Obviously I realize you can learn a lot from history and looking back, but somehow at the end of the year, it just seemed such a waste of time to artificially review the year.  I also get extremely tired of the media and the “ten best, ten worst” etc. of the past year.  

Anyway, everyone to their own, that is just the way I feel about it.  

That’s it for now, Wednesday, December 30, 2015.

Winter 2015 December 29 Tuesday

 22 degrees this morning, no walk (ice, but also cold air still makes me coughI)

Thank goodness the weather forecast was wrong and we got very little snow.  It was a little icy, but not that bad (says the person who hardly left the house except for get the mail, and take out the trash and recycling and picking up the bins!)  

I am hoping I will get over the coughing so I can start exercising again.  Along with the general change in eating habits that occur over the holidays, not exercising also is deadly for my weight!

One factor I have noticed is, I cough when I eat to fullness, which is an indication that “GERD” is possibly causing me to cough, similar to the way carbonated beverages cause me to cough.  

However, also whenever I went out, the cold air caused me to cough, so it may be several days before I can exercise again.  

Speaking of the future, I read a short (short so I would take the time to read it and get some basic information) book on robots, drones etc.  It was interesting and provides a good basis for future reading.  

I think it is easy to assume robots will be bad (or good) and I expect it will be a matter of some very positive results with some negative aspects.  Somewhat like all technology, such as smartphones etc.  

In a way it goes back to the concept that robots will help since people work so hard, sometimes they don’t have time to really “think” because there are so many small things interfering.  However, robots (in the very broad sense of smart phones, driverless cars, etc) could take care of many of the small tasks that take up so much time and we would have time to think and discuss the big things.  Or maybe vice versa, with the robots providing the research and “thinking’.  

I was just thinking of how I did “research” in college and graduate school.  Much of my time was spent in non-productive time.  it was anyway, but I mean even when I was trying to be productive much of the mechanism of being productive was meaningless, time consuming tasks not actually thinking of the broad issues I was trying to research.  

The mechanics became the important part, not the result  I think technology/robots could dramatically change that equation.  

Today, I would do in one evening (or less) what it took me a semester to do back then as far as  research  Of course, I didn’t have the “distractions" of smart phone texts, cable tv with hundreds of channels, “on-demand” movies,  tablets with live tv etc.,  Facebook, Youtube Etc. , so maybe it all equals out anyway!  

I read somewhere that there is a good chance in a few years we will be operating without Smartphones etc, but communicating and using the internet through new devices or media, most of which we probably haven’t even been invented yet.  

I was thinking that the rise of physical terrorism somewhat parallels the rise of “cyberterrorism”, where people introduced viruses etc., just for the “fun” of it.  Now they are using “blackmail” viruses etc. to make money, just like ISIS is taking over property and trying to make money for terrorism.  I know, quite a stretch, but something to think about!

I was thinking about that because of some of the more extreme comments, etc. on Facebook etc. the kind that make you wonder what people are really thinking about and if it really is a person or what motive they really have.  I block them, but I still wonder why they spend their time that way.  

All of the good that can be accomplished with technology, especially people who understand how to develop programs etc, it is really such a waste.

Planning on a “Field Day” today, the first since before Christmas, hopefully I will be able to handle the cold air.  If not, fortunately it is the time of month when I still have a lot of office work I can do.  I do plan on automatically using the lotion that kills germs on my hands automatically when I get in the car, just so I get in the habit. 

Three days left in 2015.  

That’s it for now, Tuesday, December 29, 2015.

Winter 2015 December 28 Monday

30 degrees this morning (19 “ WC):  No walk, icy roads still have cough.

Freezing rain all night, slick roads this morning, still supposed to snow part of day.  

One of those days I am so glad I have a “home office” I don’t have any excuses for starting work late but I don’t mind at all!

We still have electricity, at least for right now.  We appreciate it from minute to minute!  

This is the time of year when people begin to realize a new “year” is upon us and Christmas is truly over for this year (in spite of the “12 days of Christmas” which we somewhat observe in that our Christmas decorations stay up for the allotted time.    I have never understood the people that put up extensive Christmas decorations and then efficiently take them down the day after Christmas.

It will  take a while to write ’2016”, I expect, just like it took at while to get used to 2015.  

This week is kind of like a transition week to the next year.  Thank goodness it is a 3 day weekend  this year for New Year Day.  Actually New Year Day will be a 3 day weekend for the next couple of years.  Since 2016 is a “Leap Year”, New Year Day next year will be on a Sunday.   

“No payments until 2016!”  Had to laugh at the car dealer ad I just saw.  No payments until 2016 is’t a lot of incentive right now!  Usually don’t watch tv early in the morning, am this morning so I can keep up with the weather  and the transformers blowing up from the ice and wind.

I assume that is an ad that has been around for awhile.

Last night I didn’t feel an earthquake, but I certainly heard it.  It was a 3.5 magnitude and it was very loud, although it didn’t rattle anything.  

Apparently the electricity came on right as the earthquake happened for many residents and the power company quickly denied any relationship between electricity and earthquakes. 

On the other hand, the noise sounded like a transformer blowing up (although our electricity was n’t affected), so maybe the earthquake and power are related although I am sure the earthquake and the power coming on aren’t related!  

Just got a notice on my phone that snow will begin in five minutes, so the final (hopefully) phase of the storm is starting.  

Finished the book on “oxygen”, it had some interesting ideas although as usual with such books, I have no interest in some of the more extreme exercises etc.

I am going to try to breathe through my nose a lot more and I’ll see what happens.  I think it may help my breathing and also may mitigate some of my coughing problems from cold air.  I’ll see.  

As this bout with Bronchitis eventually gets over, my main focus will be on preventing another bout, this is just too long to have to stop exercising, endure coughing and related actions etc.  

Hopefully the electricity will stay on and the roads will clear up later today.  Since we don’t necessarily “have” to drive, we don’t worry about it and just wait it out as much as possible.  I may have to use some of the ice salt I have been been carrying around for 1 and 1/2 years or the snow shovel I bought! 

That’s it for now, Monday, December 28, 2015.

Winter 2015 December 27 Sunday

33 degrees this morning, no walk, heavy rains, head cold, cough etc.

Heavy rains yesterday with ice expected later today, snow Monday.  

One weather person on tv even said it will be “one of the more significant storms of your lifetime”, which is saying a lot!  

A weather person, about a week before Katrina in New Orleans  told me (privately) that it was gong to the “the hurricane disaster of the century”.  Although it will take another 85 years to prove him right, I expect he was correct, considering the loss of life and damage and the after effects.  

We are right on the line-it will either be a blizzard of snow or just some light snow.  In any event, we are preparing for no electricity tomorrow.

I still have my automatic reaction to a storm to start worrying about roads being cleared etc. and then I realize i don’t have to worry about that anymore.  In fact, since my office is in my house, I don’t even need to worry about getting to work (unless I don’t have any electricity, etc.).

Feeling a lot better, but still have a cough and head cold.  I really wonder how long this will continue  Actually, I think I will be ok in a day or two although I’m not sure when I will be able to start exercising again, even when the weather allows.  

I have been testing the little $50 “Fire” from Amazon.  As I noted previously, it is primarily a marketing tool for Amazon, although it has some reasonably good sides, primarily if you break it you aren’t losing much.  

I am reading a book on it I got from “Bookbud” for free or for .99 on it.  Both aren’t bad, but I wonder about worrying about the difference in price for something your will use for at least several years, if the difference is price really is worth it for the extreme limitations which almost appear to be deliberate.  

On the other hand, if I don’t expect it be be my primary iPad but realize it’s extreme limitations for the low price (and the fact if I break it or whatever it isn’t a big deal), it is good as an additional device for use in limited situations (and it you want to order from Amazon.)

If I didn’t already have so many “repurposed” iPhones, it would make a good audiobook player for the car etc. since you wouldn’t have to worry about damaging it.  

I think it goes back to the concept of what you really want, if I want the best or if it isn’t that important and the limitations aren't a concern.  In this case, I still want the best and this is cheap enough and has enough value in the fact that it doesn’t have much value (if that makes any sense) it is worth it to me to have something in some places that it may be damaged or lost that it is worth it.  

In the case of the iPhone, I only need one (well, actually two, one for work and one for personal) so it won’t make any sense to buy a cheap one, unless it was a long term prepaid that you had for emergencies and I don’t need that.  

Another dream yesterday.  I am amazed that even when I write a dream down, I forget it later in the day, although reading about the dream brings it right back.

Dream 2 26 15

Dream we had met some old friends and we were out to eat.  

We went into a restaurant where we dined a lot (although didn’t recognize it) but they were about to close and didn’t have any coffee or anyone else eating there so we walked back out in the lobby and sat on the sofa.  

For some reason there were some blankets and everyone put blankets on them.

Our friends had some kind of device (don’t know what it was) and the batteries went out.

The Server came out and said she could take our order and also replace the batteries.

She checked on the price of the batteries and gave the price to Aliene. It was for 4 “C or D cell” batteries and for some reason 2 extra batteries.  

Aliene looked at me in shock and first said it was $1,000 and, then, no $5000 for 6 batteries.  

The dream ended then (than goodness).  Not sure what that dream was all about.  

The friends were friends we meet in various places over the years.  Earlier in the day I had met someone at the gas station who said he had forgotten batteries and had to get batteries on Christmas Day and they were expensive.

Or  it may have concerned the cost of Christmas lunch at a restaurant.  Maybe all three!

Hopefully I will have electricity and internet connectively to post tomorrow!  Hope everyone is safe!

That’s it for now, Sunday, December 27, 2015.

Winter 2015 December 26 Saturday

62 degrees this morning, no walk, head cold and cough better, but still not good.  Actually felt fairly good when woke up, then started coughing.  This is basically one week today (maybe yesterday), so it should be over!

Overall nice Christmas Day, although there is that overtone of anticipation (?) about the weather coming in this weekend.  

The forecast now is for rain later today, ice rain tomorrow and snow Monday!  At least there is nothing we can really do about it except prepare to deal with it!

I talked with someone else with a cough, and they said the Doctor had told them it would last for 18 days  I hope mine isn’t that long, since it still wouldn’t be half-way over!  I will invest in some heavy duty cough medicine in that case.  

I have been reading some more about “oxygen”, specifically breathing through the nose instead of the mouth and breading correctly.  

As usual, authors seem to overhype their “new” way of doing things, but I am still leaning a lot of ways I may be able to breath better to prevent problems associated with breathing through your mouth and incorrect breathing .  

Unfortunately I am unable to practice any of it due to my head cold and especially the coughing, but  perhaps it will give me time to get the overall picture better so I will practice better and learn more when I am able to start practicing ‘nose breathing” and better breathing overall. 

I decided I am going to take several steps to prevent future coughs and colds.  

GERD is actually one cause of it, so I am going to control my GERD by better eating and taking “preventive Tagamet”  rather than just when I feel I need it.  

My Doctor doesn’t really like Tagamet, (thank goodness I can get it over the counter), but some of the newer drugs for GERD symptoms shave some side-effects on me that I don’t like, primarily reduced immune system, which is kind of weird if you think about it.  

I already avoid carbonated drinks and will try to space out my meals more and will probably reduce my beloved hot (as in spicyI) food, although I haven’t seen any direct correlation between it and coughing or GERD.  

Just got a “lightning” warning on my phone.  That is something they haven’t got down very well yet.  

After I said that, I realized the “Lightning warning” was for where we lived in Tennessee, not here, so maybe it is “operator error”.  

Another dream to not.  Really have no idea where this dream came from or what ti means, but it was very real and I was very glad (for some reason) that it was just a dream.

Dream 12-25-15

Dreamed We were attending some kind of childrens show (not sure what children were with us) and they would bring out a huge bar or bin of melted chocolate and everyone would grab it and eat it.  

Fro some reason we always set at the front of the room (to get better access to the chocolate of course, but not sure why)

At the last of the dream I was given a questionnaire to fill out (same place and prior to the chocolate coming out).   I couldn’t figure out how to fill it out or even start it.

One of the staff came over and couldn’t figure it out either and asked another staff member who said everything was new and she didn’t know how to do it either. 

That was it, but it was one of those dreams I woke up and was glad it was only a dream. have absolutely no idea as to meaning, but it was a dream I was glad was not real.

That’s it for not, Saturday, December 26, 2015.  

Winter 2015 December 25 Friday

Christmas 2015

33 degrees this morning, 27 degrees WC, no walk.  Still have head cold and significant cough.

Certainly the best Christmas Present I will receive this year will be the end of my Acute Bronchitis and cough.  I feel a lot better, but not as good as I hoped or hope to feel!  

I am still at least several days away from being able to take a walk etc.health wise.

A major winter storm is coming in.  Of course, they have been predicting it for about a week, it is amazing how weather predictions have changed. 

We still can’t do anything about the weather, but we can predict it a lot better.  At least by predicting it we can prepare for it!  

Of course weather predictions are wrong just enough that we don’t quite believe bad weather is actually going to happen! 

We had a great Christmas Eve, some nice gatherings.

We heard some amazing stories about the power of “Therapy Dogs”.  While I was  vaguely aware of them, I didn’t realize Therapy Dogs were so prevalent and such a powerful force in the care of the ill people.  

While I don’t have a dog now and probably never will again, I can remember when we had a dog years ago, it was easy to talk to your dog and feel like it understood!  Much more so than a cat.  

Noted a dream yesterday, which I will include here.  I don’t know if dreams mean anything, but I like to try to remember them. 

12 24 15 Dream:  Dream that Aliene and I went to an event.  I can’t remember what event now, except it was something we ordinarily go to.

Someone I used to know was sitting two persons down from me and recognized me and starting talking to me.  I liked talking to him except he got his fact close and had bad breath.  

Later,I was with Angela, or maybe Kali, in a big old hotel, which was mostly vacant.  

I was with either Kali or Angela and she kept taking off and I suddenly find her or would see her peering over dangerous heights etc. and she would suddenly disappear.  

One was a huge area that looked like an indoor golf course

As the dream ended we were outside and Angele/Kali was playing with some toys, one a big toy car and one a toy John Deere tractor for a child to ride  with a ruined rear tire.

We were on the street in a bad neighborhood.  I asked her where she got them.  

Somehow we meant a group of people, basically rough looking older man, but with children.  They had a lot of items..

I gave them something that I couldn’t use anymore (I can’t remember what).  Angela/Kali was with me.

I asked them to give it back if they didn’t use it, but I noticed they didn’t ask for my phone number to call me if they didn’t use it.

They nodded, but didn’t write my number down.

We were trying to figure how to get out when the dream ended.   

I kind of assume my dream had something to do with Angela/Kali growing up and the dangers of growing up and how I wouldn’t be around/couldn’t protect them from it, but it could have other meanings or mean nothing.  

While driving after the dream, I remembered a part that included me stopping or slowing for a person and suddenly several young children were in front of the car and I thought “thank goodness I slowed down”.  That’s all I remember of it. 

That’s it for now, Christmas Day, Friday, December 25, 2015.

Winter 2015 December 24 Thursday

47 degrees this morning, no walk, head cold, coughing

Went to medical clinic yesterday. got some medicine for my cold and coughing. Apparently I have “Acute bronchitis”.

I need to delve into what causes that,  This is the second serious case this year.  

The medicine helped at first and then wore off, but I realize it is cumulative and will work better as time goes by.  I wish I had gone sooner, but that is something I need to remember in the future.  

I saw  a Nurse Practitioner.  Nothing against Doctors, but I have found what I have and some other  similar professions (Physicians Assistant) Is frequently better to see for minor type medial problems because they tend to focus more on such items.  A Medical Doctor is frequently so busy on other items, they simply don’t focus on all aspects of the problem.

Probably this is especially true at “Urgent Care” centers.  Anyway, I found most of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants to give excellent care and know when you need to see a medical doctor.  

Probably rain, ice and snow this weekend through Monday. 

After a peered like this when I can’t exercise for medical or other reasons, I always start to wonder how I found the time to exercise!  However, when I start to feel better, somehow I find the time again, or at least make time for it.

I think part of it is being sick takes a lot more out of you than you realize.  Being sick takes a lot of energy, you sleep more and just spend more time not feeling well!  

Aliene and my Christmas activities have almost changed to being mostly on Christmas Eve, so today will be a major part of our Christmas activities.  Fortunately I have today off so I can enjoy them.  

No matter how you may feel about the Presidential Election, this has certainly not been a boring Election  

I have read about Presidential Elections so much in perspective of history, it will be interesting how this election is reviewed in future years.  Of course, that is still to are determined.   

Personally I think they need to go to more of a “percentage” voting rather than the “winner take all” where it mades several states so important that other states your vote is almost meaningless.  

One of the big problems I see with making local elections the same date as national elections is that the local issues get lost in the press coverage on national and state issues and so the local Vote is determined by voters who may have little interest or knowledge in local issues and just vote based on little knowledge. 

Of course, this is the perfect occasion for “big money” to decide local elections, not discussion of the issues, which probably is why some politicians are pushing for the same election date.  

Lobbying groups hoping for huge consulting and construction congrats etc. will become the deciders of local elections to the huge determinant of the residents.  A true local candidate simply won’t be able to afford to run for local office.

What little residents save by not having a separate election, they will lose to loss of local control, inflated contracts etc.  

What is always strange to me is that your vote actually counts more in the local election as far as how it directly affects you, but all the attention is on the national and state election.

That’s it for now, Thursday, December 24, 2015.

Winter 2015 December 23 Wednesday

60 degrees this morning.  No walk, still have head cold, now with a heavy cough.

Somehow, being sick with a head cold has become a way of life.  Really has only been several days, but it seems like forever and my life of walking, swimming and bicycling has somehow faded.  

I know it will come back and this will seem like a bad dream, but I know after this I am definitely going to see a medical clinic when something like this happens, especially if I develop a cough.  

This is actually much more than the simple head cold I though it was as a dry heavy cough has developed.  At least it is not all the time, in fact it is infrequently, but it really bothers me when it comes and I wonder about the effects.  

I am debating whether the Sudafed may be causing the cough.  The internet is almost useless anymore for health advice, since it has been overtaken by the drug companies pushing their medicine.  Probably “useless” is the wrong word, it has just become a lot more difficult to find information.  

Maybe I’m not asking the right questions.  

I have to wonder if the “ethics” classes that were such a big thing at business schools, political science, sociology etc. were taught right, at least at the “business schools”.   Or the students got the wrong message. 

“Ethics” now seems to be to plunder as much as you can, especially from the poor and ignorant and sick (and buy off politicians as much as possible so you can do so).  

Of course the example of the person who raised the price of the drugs (now arrested for “illegal” activities) is a prime example. 

I read yesterday about vulture companies that buy old debt and the sue (even though they may be be able to prove who actually owes the money), usually the poor, ignorant, very elderly etc. who don’t know enough or are unable to go to court.  They  then garish their wages.  If the victims  try to sue them for their illegal and unethical tactics, they hide behind “arbitration” clauses.   The “old debt” is literally purchased for pennies on the dollar.  That is sick and unethical,not “good business”.  

Of course that is one of those things I can’t do much about and “what goes around comes around”, so to speak.  I still get angry about it, even if I can’t do anything about it!

We decided to live dangerously and eat at Chipotle  Mexican Grill last night.  (Also I had a gift card for there I wanted to use!)

At a time when there usually is a long line and the restaurant is full, this time there were just a few customers.  I hadn’t realized the impact of the E. Coli matter on Chipotle.  

We discovered Chipotle several years ago, actually at a family reunion in Topeka, Kansas.  Aliene had been diagnosed as not being able to eat gluten and hadn’t really planned on ordering anything. 

To her surprise, when she told her she was unable to eat gluten, they changed their gloves and the spoons of the items she was going to eat (to avoid contamination) and had strict rules for handling food.  Chipotle quickly became a favorite place, so the E. Coli problem is surprising, although I have heard the fact they use fresh food may be part of the problem.  

Today is the last day of work, and then a four day weekend for Christmas.  Hopefully I will feel fully well enough to enjoy the time off and getting together.  If it difficult when you are barking with cough, sneezing and worried about infecting others!  However, I am feeling a lot better and expect to at least feel well enough to enjoy myself.  

That’s it for now, Wednesday, December 23, 2015.