Hello to the start of a New Year. Hopefully better than last year……………………………….

As always, first the chronology:

12/28/25 – Sunday – Up at the usual time. Cleaned up and out to church with Kathy. Home and lunch. Down and did the blog. Upstairs and a little nap. Then out to Lowes for material to fix Shelby’s lamp. Stopped at Arby’s for a snack on the way home as we were still full from the dinner theater last night.

12/29/25 – Monday – Up late. Spent the day bringing presents upstairs, trying things on and making sure everything was good. Took a break for lunch and dinner.

12/30/25 – Tuesday – Didn’t do too much today. Worked on Shelby’s lamp a little and went to Hometown pizza for dinner. This constant pain is starting to get to me. Next Wednesday can’t come soon enough.

12/31/25 – Wednesday – Up around 9AM. Kathy was already up and gone to a doctor’s appointment. I had breakfast, dealt with the dogs awhile then downstairs for some computer work. Kathy came home and we had lunch. A nap. up and finished up the work on Shelby’s desk lamp. Then dinner and Kathy went up to Mike and Julie’s to celebrate New Years eve. I stayed home and watch TV.

1/1/26 – Thursday – Up around 9AM. Didn’t feel well today. Thought I was getting a touch of what everyone else had. Spent most to the day in bed resting and over dosing on Tylenol. Of course had Sauerkraut, Knockwurst and pork for dinner.

1/2/26 – Friday – Up around 9AM. Felt much better today. Cleaned up the table in kitchenette after fixing Shelby’s lamp. Started cleaning up the work bench and played a lot of radio. Stopped for lunch and dinner. Usual evening routine.

1/3/26 – Saturday – Up around 9AM. Down to print off a letter from my friend Dave. Updated my Medication list and got some other document updated for the New Year. Up for lunch. A nap. Back downstairs to continue computer work. Dinner and usual evening routine.

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Now the particulars:

After a big dinner at the play house last Saturday we weren’t really interested in anything big for our Sunday night out. So we just planned on going to Lowes and getting material to fix Shelby’s lamp the make a quick stop at Arby’s for dinner. It was just enough to hold us till Monday morning.

Shelby had bought a lamp at a second hand store somewhere. Julie asked me to look at it and see if anything needed done. Well, the power cord was so brittle that if you pinched it the insulation cracked and you could see the wire. The socket of the light bulb was just moving all around. Not attached to the lamp well at all. So I decided it needed everything replaced. That challenge was finding material to secure the light bulb socket to the ceramic portion of the lamp without destroying anything. So I fabricated some washers and had Kathy help me and got that done. I took the light bulb socket apart and it showed signs of heating up so I replace it as well. All is good and safe now and it’s sitting on the counter in Kathy’s office ready to go back.

This leg pain is starting to play with my head. Now I almost feel like shitting my pants rather than sit on the commode and get up again. I started taking Tylenol this week. Probably overdosing on it as I’m taking 1000mg every 4 to 5 hours. But it won’t have time to do that much damage to my liver by this coming Wednesday. I did feel great of Friday. Legs didn’t seem to bother me at all. Still can’t wait for the epidural.

New Years day I felt like shit. My Son-in-Law and Grandson were both under the weather as well. I probably got something the same place they did. But it only last one day and all was good.

Friday I managed to get on the radio and play HF for the day. Made a bunch of POTA contacts but not much else was happening.

No work this past week. But I’m scheduled for 4 day this coming week. Of course 3 of those days will be short. Only one long day.

As always, hope this finds you safe and healthy. Stay that way and I’ll blog at you again next week.