Linda has been ill since last Thursday with a cold and/or allergies.  Until yesterday I had managed to avoid her symptoms, but in the morning I started sneezing and in afternoon I developed a cough.  It wasn’t a response to a tickle in my throat from post-nasal drip, it was the deep raspy cough that comes from the lungs and makes them hurt.  By evening the cough had become productive.  I have not been sick in a very long time and the one thing I try to avoid getting is pneumonia, which I have had three times in the same spot of the same lung.  The scar tissue there makes me more susceptible to re-infection, and I take my nasal spray and allergy pill every day to avoid sinus problems which can settle into my lungs.  Until Tuesday this had been very successful.

We both had a very poor night’s sleep last night and got out of bed feeling like we were in a twilight zone.  Instead of coffee I had a big cup of Tazo Ginger Spice tea.  The warmth and ginger taste were soothing and I figured it could not hurt to stay hydrated.  I put a load of laundry in the washer (I only have two loads to go) and then had a large glass of orange/grapefruit juice.  Linda also had some tea and then gathered up clothes for the next five days.  She will be watching grand-daughter Madeline around the clock until Sunday when her parents return from San Francisco, California.

I checked on my new laptop and the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop (ACCD) app showed that Photoshop had been successfully installed; at least it showed that in one place, but in another place it said I had no apps installed.  Hummm?  I did not see the icons at the bottom of the screen but the one thing I have learned about Windows 8/8.1 is that I can go to the Start (Metro) screen and start typing and I usually get directed to what I am looking for.  I noticed a little arrow in the lower left corner of the screen that said “4 new apps.”  I clicked on that and it took me to the screen where all if the installed programs are listed and there they were!  I opened Lightroom and registered it and then opened Photoshop; twice.  It appears that I have a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version.  I’m not sure why, as my new laptop has a 64-bit processor, but they are both listed.

I got out my iPad2 but did not have the energy or interest to even play a game and lay down on the couch to take a nap.  Linda had a couple of hours before she had to leave for Ann Arbor, and made a batch of her super special granola.  I got a call from Kimber at GM Construction letting me know that Gary would not be able to stop by the house today to look at our pole barn project.  He had to go up north for family reasons.  Given how I felt it was for the better.  He will stop by on Friday or sometime next week.

I didn’t feel like sitting up but I was tired of lying down, so I had some granola, sans soy milk, and worked at my iPad2.  I have been keeping up with writing my blog posts, but not with posting them.  I want to select a few photos from the Escapade to include in the posts but have not felt like going through them.  I shot over 2,000 images during the event.  Linda keeps suggesting that I only write weekly posts when we are home.  It seems like that would be easier, but I have tried that and it’s not.  For one I lose track of details, and sometimes even the day/date something happened.  I also found that the weekly posts just ended up being very long.  What I really need to do is focus on writing shorter posts.  But as a weblog, the blog is first and foremost an online diary, so the details I include are there because they are important to me at the time.

Although I did not feel like doing it, I forced myself to select a dozen photos from the 15th and 16th and post process them.  I have everything I need to upload my posts for the last week except the energy and desire.  UPS showed up around 5 PM with the mirror from Prevost.  I spent most of the day lying down on the couch and finally went to bed around 9 PM.