16 January 2024
All good things must come to an end. I had five good days. This morning I waked with a cough, stuffy nose, and feeling blah. I don’t know if it is a cold or I still have Covid. I tested positive again today but the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta says you can test positive 90 days after a Covid infection. To be safe, I canceled my massage and my late lunch/early dinner with Tom and Kurt. I’ll also call the physical therapist and pain management doctor and ask if I still should come in or reschedule.
Today is my fourth day of insulin. Physically, I can’t tell any difference.
Here’s the 7 day range.
To be honest, I don’t understand the graph since it is supposed to show a 7 day range yet it only shows a 24 hour period. I think the pertinent take away is that I never go below 100 and spend very little time close to 100. I’ll dial up to 17 tomorrow.
There’s no walk today due to cough, stuffy nose, doldrums, etc. I’ll spend time in bed reading and when I get a spurt of energy I’ll see about adding more music to my computer from old CD’s. The CD player still has its moments. Yesterday, it copied 15 songs from the album Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood soundtrack and refused to copy the last 4 songs on the album. Everyone’s a critic.
It says something about how boring I am if I get excited about adding music to the computer through a CD player. There’s a reason new computer systems don’t have these devices anymore. They are slow and a pain in the butt.
When I volunteered as chief archivist of Stonewall Library and Archives, the great debate among archivists was in what medium do you store materials. I go back to the era of the TRS80 Radio Shack computer and used the tape cassette to store data. Then came floppy disks, then 3.5 inch hard disks, the CD’s then DVD’s. Somewhere in there came video disks which were like gigantic records. Remember 8 tracks and VCR cassettes? All gone by the wayside.
Archivists have yet, to my knowledge, come up with a preferred form of storage. I suspect most archives keep on hand multiple devices for playing multiple forms of media. While volunteering at the archives, we kept 8 mm projectors, cassette players, CD players and other devices just so we could access the material. When we didn’t have some device, we put out a call to our membership for help and usually someone would loan us an “antique” to play the media.
Thumb drives seem to be the current rage. However, don’t hold your breath on these. Just think how Apple has changed the type of charging ports on their iPhones, iMacs, and iPads in just the last few years.
There was some movie many years ago where there was a need to make a phone call and everyone was looking for a phone booth when this young lady pulls out a “cell phone” from her purse. It was the size of a WWII walkie talkie. The antenna was a long as the “phone.” Remember flip phones? Life changes. Well, except for getting sick. Then there’s death and taxes.
Stay tuned!
