Trump is back and so is CoVid! Like a bad penny!
I haven't posted regularly for a number of reasons. Health is one of them. My rotator cuff apparently needs surgery and that will have to wait until the latter half of 2025 at least. If I use the computer, my arm starts to ache and then I feel spikes of pain in my shoulder and then, after a while, my right arm feels like it is on fire. I never did like the mouse and I wonder whether 30 years of mousing was in fact, the problem.
I could type up a storm in the days of WordPerfect and DOS - no mouse to interrupt the keyboard flow. Back then I could do 100 WPM with few errors. With a mouse, well, that drops it to 60 WPM - so much for Windows "productivity." Today, I am lucky to hit 15 WPM with a lot of typos - perhaps a combination of my shoulder injury and early dementia.
Oh, well.
I also got the Covid - again. A friend recently traveled to Canada by plane and came back hacking and coughing. She and Mark spent a week setting up the Merry Artists show and he started hacking and coughing. A few days later, so did I. I felt like crap, just like the last time - with searing headaches (no doubt more "white spots" on the brain) and a general feeling of malaise.
My doctor claims the new variant of Covid is not as bad as the old one. We'll see. Bad time to appoint anti-vaxxers to government health agencies, doya think?
Anyway, I have my new passport and reservations are in place. Repositioning cruise to Barcelona from Ft. Lauderdale (by way of Gibraltar and Lisbon), six weeks in a rented camper on the Iberian pennisula, and then another repositioning cruise back to New Orleans. I may never come back!
Invest $500,000 in Portugal and you get the "Golden Passport" - 10-year residency and free to travel in the EU, plus a path to citizenship! It's an option.
Gotta go - arm's on fire!
