The body has finally shrugged off the flu. Whatever that cough comes from is still very active and the hacking cough that it emits is being kept well in check by the decongestant cough syrup. It is difficult to breathe as well but as long as I don’t need to do any heavy breathing I can cope. Several days have just blurred into nothing and somehow it went from Wednesday to Saturday without me noticing the days as such. On a short walk up to one of the apartments up the driveway it felt as though my head was floating up on its own with no body supporting it. Its not totally unpleasant but care has to be exercised so I don’t become one of the people around here who falls on their butt and hurts themselves.
The drawing of the little dog is progressing slowly. That is better than before. It is looking nice and the very moderate use of mixed media is working well enough so I am enjoying the process agin and thinking of another one where the media gets pushed harder. I will post an image of that in progress in the next day or so. This one was a dog off the net but I need to photograph some myself. A part of my art is the photography
The UHF hand-held has been working well and there have been a number of conversations with passing mobile units. There was a radio buff online tonight and he chatted with me about the 27Mhz radio. He got his unit running and gave me a yell on 27 Mhz. We spent a while trying the channels on the 27 and chatting back and forth on the UHF
The pl259 I had started with was from Jaycar and has the wrong length at the threaded end, That meant it wasn’t grounding the shielding through the radio so I wasn’t get anything. I cut the old one off and soldered one I got from E-bay on tonight and the first signals came in. I managed to get a bare squeak transmitted and no more so I have work to do getting the antenna set up and the guy gave me some hints to get more power from it. I like fussing around with things and working to get them better. I guess I miss being able to work any more and this compensates a bit.
Bryan is still in hospital. Mum is visiting him and I know it is gnawing at her. We discussed our own demises. With all this so real we have spoken of many things we would normally avoid. Wills. what we expect from each other if there is a disaster. Euthanasia. I have mentioned that in here before.
The moths are back with the weather improvement and I have managed to photograph a few nice ones. I will post more images later> The library has been waiting for me to return one of their DVDs but I have literally not had the strength to get that far. Tomorrow I will try again. I need prescription filled.