Slow times...busy times

My next transplant is scheduled for November 6 so for now, I have very few medical appointments.  They even let the required caregiver (my son) go home so I’m completely alone for a couple of weeks.  Appointments will start again around November 2nd.  My medical team will keep me very busy with a multitude of tests, preparatory chemo and radiation. But until then, I have several projects that are screaming for attention.

These include converting dozens of old cassette tapes to digital.  These are tapes that were at some point converted from reel to reel tape to cassettes.  They are recordings of relatives and friends telling their stories from long ago.  Many of those recorded have since passed on so they are extremely valuable.  I’m also cleaning up old videos and digitizing everything.

As a musician, I enjoy practicing.  I have to keep up my tuba and also practice string bass and banjo. My goal is to become proficient at the banjo and functional at the bass.  I have a long way to travel on both instruments.  

Then there are other projects that tax my brain sometimes too much.  The linear generator project and some others receive attention as often as possible.  When I’m not at the clinic, I spend my day rotating from project to project.  I’ll work on one until I’m sick of it, then practice for a while and move on to another.  I almost look forward to the return of frequent medical treatments so I won’t be so busy.  (Well, almost.)