Still no good at Blogging

I'm still not real good at this blogging thing. 

In the past month:

- I've done bugger all radio work. I haven't received a whole lot of SSTV, and I'm struggling to be heard using FT8. The conditions aren't my friend and perseverance is low.  

- I've done a lot of 3D printing. A lot of functional things to solve little problems. It's handy enough. I do have a love hate relationship with the printer though. It'll work great for days, then will be a colossal pain. At the moment, it's a pain. Seems to happen after I run PETG through it. I suspect I need to strip out the hot end, go extra hard on trying to clean it out then start again. 

- I've been working on my music setup. Under desk mounts to free up desk space, some new gear thanks to my tax return, monitor arm to get the monitor up off the desk giving me some more room. 

- I've also been trying to learn a couple of new songs, but this has been hampered by my health.

- After some coming and goings of a cold, my shoulder started to act up more than usual. This at one point lead to chest pain and an expensive ride to the ED, a few hours with cardiac monitoring and blood tests only to be told it's probably just my shoulder pain emanating. A few days later I was back there with pain down my left side, a numb hand and pain up into my neck. It turns out that my problem was in fact, cardiac after all. I have pericarditis. Treatable enough but one of the things it impacts is that same shoulder. So now I have a shoulder that already has impingement hurting a whole lot more. It seems almost desperate when you have tablets that stop the other tablets from giving you ulcers because you're taking so much of them. 

- The above has cost me a lot of sleep. I was barely sleeping past 2 am in the lead up to the final ED visit, that night was a discharge at 3am so I really didn't sleep having been awake for the preceding 25 hours and after a single good nights sleep, I'm back to having fairly disrupted sleep. 

- The shoulder has been a problem with guitar playing. I can't take the weight on my left shoulder and I don't find sitting down playing comfortable. I also can't keep my hand up the fretboard for more than a couple of minutes at a time.   

Interesting times I guess. Today I'll attempt to work despite having been up in the middle of the night to dose up on pain killers. My expectations of a full day are low. I'll just do what I can.  I'm constantly tired. I'm not sure how much of that is the disrupted sleep, how much is just being worn down the pain that comes and goes, how much is from my existing shoulder problems and how much of that is from the pericarditis itself.