Our RV Adventures

Yesterday Jan started coming down with what I’ve got, just as I’m starting to get over it.

Some people are attributing this to the Harvey Hack, an upper respiratory infection seemingly caused by all the moldy debris laying around as the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

But my symptoms don’t quite fit. I started with a nagging cough that got worse and worse over a couple of days, finally getting so bad that my chest and diaphragm were so sore that it hurt to even stand. But that, along with a slight fever, is all I had. No sneezing, no congestion, just the cough.

But this morning I felt well enough to go back down to the Clear Lake area.

I spent most of the day catching up on making labels for a bunch of products using Avery Labels Design & Print program. If you don’t have a copy of this free program, you should.

It will do all this different types of these and more.

I had tried to call Jan several times during the day, but I guess her cell phone had run out of juice, because it keep telling me her phone was offline. So coming home, I took a chance that she might be hungry so I made a stop at the Willis Whataburger to pick up dinner.

She was asleep when I got here but with the smell of Whataburger, she rallied enough to eat and have some of the Coffee Milkshake I also brought home. Hopefully she’ll be better tomorrow.

The FBI just released their UCR 2016 report breaking down Murder by State, and by Weapon.

Turns out you’re almost 5 times more likely to be killed by a knife or other bladed weapon than a rifle of any type, including any type of ‘assault weapon’. And almost twice as likely to beaten to death with hands, feet, fists, etc. than killed with a rifle.

On the Las Vegas Shooting front, a number of ex-military riflemen and hunters have come forward to say that the fact that the shooter used a ‘bump stock’ to spray bullets around meant that a lot less people were killed than might have been.

Their claim is that if he had used a rifle with a good scope and took his time he could killed a lot more people one at a time during the 10 minutes he was firing. And probably attracted a lot less attention. The distance was only about 500 yards, a distance that hunters regularly take down deer in the hill country. In fact you can go online and find videos of guys shooting golf balls at 500 yards. So a person wouldn’t be a problem.

The Word of the Day is: Sericeous

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It’s been a rough couple of days for me. And for Jan too, since she has to listen to my hacking cough, and take care of me.

About this time every Fall I get a cough. Not really bad, but just a tickle in my throat that makes me cough ever so often. So when I started coughing a little last week, I wasn’t surprised. I’ve always figured it was an allergy of some sort. Possibly ragweed, since it’s supposed to be bad this time of the year.

But night before last it got really bad, coughing all during the night every few minutes, not letting me get a lot of sleep. But except for the constant nagging cough, I really didn’t feel that bad.

So Jan and I headed down to the Clear Lake to meet up with Chris, Linda, Brandi, and Landon at the Webster Cheddar’s for lunch. My cough did abated somewhat, during lunch, but returning with a vengeance after I got go work.

I spent most of the afternoon sitting at my desk/workbench soldering up a bunch of connectors.

Jan spent the afternoon over at Chris’ as he worked on Landon’s Halloween costume. So I actually worked until 6pm rather than 3:30 like I normally do. Leaving work I stopped at the corner CVS to get some strong cough syrup

By now I was starting to feel pretty dodgy, but still felt OK to drive home. Getting back to Conroe, we stopped at Kroger’s for a few grocery items, and gas. Nice to see that it’s dropping again, now down to $2.19.

We had planned to make a Culver’s for dinner, at least for Jan. I had planned to just get a shake or Concrete Freeze. But when we got there Jan said se though I was running fever, so I decided to go with the “feed a fever”? meme, so I ordered a small single hamburger.

By the time we got back to the rig I was on my last legs, and after taking the cough syrup I went straight to bed . . .  at 9:30. And didn’t get up until noon. Then after Jan fixed me some oatmeal I went back to bed until about 5pm.

Got up feeling a little better, but very sore in my joints from the coughing.

Later I had some some soup and then went back to bed by around 10:30. But if I don’t feel any worse I’ll go in to Clear Lake tomorrow.