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Jan continues to get to get a little stronger every day. And again we both appreciate all the well-wishes from100’s of friends and blog readers. Thanks.

We’ve had a number of emails from readers concerned that Jan was taking Cipro and now Levaquin, and the possible side-effects from them.

First off Jan has taken both of these for short periods of time in the past with absolutely no bad effects whatsoever. In addition, name one antibiotic that doesn’t have bad side-effects for someone.

I’ve also read several times that if aspirin were developed today it would be a prescription drug due to all the bad side-effects that some people have from it.

So we appreciate everyone’s concerns, but so far she’s doing fine.

I took the panel off the microwave today trying to fix a nagging problem. When you use it 2 or 3 times in a row the microwave power will shut off. The timer keeps counting down and the turntable keeps spinning, but the interior light goes off and it stops cooking.

If I push in on the panel the light comes back on and it starts cooking again. But the longer it is used the harder you have to push in on the control panel.

I’m pretty sure that problem is with the microswitch that senses whether or not the door is closed and latched. When I reach in I can wiggle the switch, so I’m pretty sure that it is the problem.

But the way it is mounted behind the frame it’s hard to get to, so I used Gorilla Tape to try and lock it down in place. And in testing, it did three 3 minute runs heating water with no problem, so we’ll see how it works out.

About 2:30 Jan and I headed over to I-45 and the Victory Lakes area to eat at the Whataburger there. This time, along with our burgers, we each got a salad.

Jan got the Garden Salad while I got their Apple & Cranberry Chicken Salad.

Both salads were really good and we have enough left over for dinner tomorrow.

Heading back toward home I stopped for gas at the HEB. Don’t know what’s really going on with the gas prices, but since the week before Christmas the price has jumped 26¢ up to $2.19. Ouch.

Then we made a quick stop at the nearby Jason’s Deli for a cup of their Broccoli Cheese Soup for Jan’s lunch tomorrow while I’m at work.

The Headline of the Day: Woman run over by own car trying to escape cat attack.

Thought for the Day:

It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

William Henley

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Jan’s doing great, slowly getting her strength back. It’s just going to take time for her to get back to 100%.

We pretty much just laid around the rig today and never even went outside. I tried to get up the gumption to go outside and do the awnings, but no luck. I’ll try again tomorrow, I guess.

My BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo) that first hit me a few weeks ago seems to be slowly fading. Every reoccurrence has been less in intensity, and due to Jan’s illness I never got a chance to start the Canalith Repositioning Exercises to combat it.

The last time I noticed anything was a small swirl when I got out of bed a couple of days ago and that was it. So as it stands right now I’m not going to worry about it unless it comes back.

I’m relearning Spanish

I recently came across a new Android app (iOS and Windows Phone too)  that’s fun, addictive, and educational 

And Free. I forgot free. (Well, it’s free if you watch an ad now and then)

It’s called Duolingo and it’s a fun, addic . . . I already said that, didn’t I. Anyway it’s a fast way to learn a new language.

Developed a Carnegie-Mellon University and funded by a McArthur Fellowship and a National Science grant, it can teach you one of 23 different languages with 22 more coming online soon.

Although I had 3 years of German in high school and college, I don’t have a lot use for it now. And though I never had any formal classes in Spanish, I became pretty fluent during the almost two years we lived in Colombia, South America when I was 13 – 14. In fact my younger sister, who was about a year old when we moved down there, grew up speaking Spanish as well as English.

But we both forgot it when we moved back to the states and didn’t use it anymore. However when we spent a week in Puerto Vallarta in 1997, I noticed that it came back fairly quickly, and then faded just as fast when we got back. So I thought Spanish would be a good place to start, and of more use to me than German.

The lessons are short exercises in subjects like Food, Animals, Clothing, Phrases, etc. that increase in difficulty as you progress. The app monitors your errors, corrects you, and reintroduces the question at a later time to double-check that you’ve retained the correction.

And there’s no memorizing verb declensions and vocabulary lists. You literally just pick it up as you go along.

Check it out. Maybe you’ll learn something.

The Headline of the Day: Chelsea Clinton denies worshipping Satan.

Thought for the Day: