Still sick

It's been a long week.  It started on Friday.  I felt weak and tired and achy all day.  In the early evening, I started getting chills, and that's when I knew I had a fever.

Saturday morning, the fever broke.  I was surprised it only lasted as long as it did.  I was eating bacon at the time that I noticed I had started sweating (signifying the fever breaking), so perhaps that cured me.  Bacon is magical stuff.

Since then I've been coughing.  It's a dry cough, not a wet one, but it's persistent.  I've still been achy and tired and weak. 

No, I haven't been tested for the covid, nor do I care to get tested.  If I've got it, then I've had it long enough by now so that I know it's not going to kill me.  (But I knew that anyway due to my age and general health level.)  I'm treating the symptoms with cough syrup, cough drops, and pain killers.  I'm not eating much solid food, but I'm trying to force myself to drink plenty of fluids.

The sinus infection I had two years ago was a lot worse than this.  So I'm not worried, and you shouldn't be, either.

Anyway, that's my status.  I haven't spent much time on the computer.  In my sensitive condition, focusing on the screen makes my eyes water.  Strangely, my Kindle Fire doesn't have that effect on me, so I've been reading a lot, working through some of my to-be-read list.

Hope y'all are doing better than me.  Take care.

Ugh

Been sick for the past few days.  I came down with a fever on Friday, but it broke the next morning.  Shortest fever I've ever had, I think.  Even without the fever, though, I still feel weak and tired and have a slight cough.

Hope y'all are doing better.  :(

Thanks, everyone!

Just wanted to say thanks to all the readers who have joined my mailing recently and downloaded or purchased my books.  Y'all are my lifeblood, and I appreciate every one of you.

Take care folks, and thanks again.  :)

Free books!

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Thanks for reading!

Almost over

Just a few hours left until this horrible year is over.  Will it actually happen?  Will 2020 actually end?  Or will some other black swan event occur to send us into a thirteenth month of it?  Perhaps an alien civilization will open up a time warp on our world just for kicks and giggles, sending us back to January 2020 to relive it all.

I hop you all have a Happy New Year, or at least as happy as can be reasonably expected due to the circumstances.  Take care, y'all.

Tutorials

What's the best thing about the internet?  In my opinion, it's the fact that you can learn about anything.  Not only can you learn any subject, but you can learn it from top-notch experts.

YouTube, for example, is full of tutorials for every subject.  Yesterday, I watched some of Paul Seller's stuff.  He's a British woodworker, and he does fantastic work.  Early today, I watched a video of a guitar teacher breaking down one of Billy Strings's songs and really diving into the music theory.  I played sax for many years and learned a good bit of technical stuff about music, but I never knew half the stuff this guy knows.

This is the real value of the internet.  Knowledge is freely shared, and that accelerates learning on the part of those who are interested.  No tuition or apprenticeships necessary.  Only patience, practice, and determination.

It's never too late to master a new subject.  Go for it!  :D

Merry Christmas, y'all

Whatever your plans, I hope they go off without a hitch.  If you're getting together with family, then I hope you and your loved ones are all doing well.  And wherever you go, please drive safely, because lots of accidents happen on holidays.

Take care, folks, and have a Merry Christmas!