Updates to My Exciting Life

 Here's the exciting details of my so-called life:

Physical Therapy;

My physical condition continues to improve with Focus Sports Therapy in Hollister, California.  I can walk better and longer than when I first started back in March. I have discovered through experience that even a thoroughly decrepit body can react to exercise and improve greatly in many cases.  

Learning Spanish:  

My strategy for learning Spanish is immersion, sort of.  I watch lessons, stories and examples of Spanish on YouTube, and do not write anything down.  Once I have covered the same vocabulary, words and phrases as before, it begins to stick.  I use Google Spanish to English translation for new words and phrases, which are translated instantly into English at no cost.  This is a great tool when reading stories only, to learn new words and expressions.

I used to try and listen to Spanish broadcasts, songs, news, advertisements to see how many spoken words I could recognize.  It wasn't very many at all.  Then one day recently the fog began to clear and I could understand various words and phrases, a lot more than before.

Back to Making Graphics

 Since I broke my hip two years ago I have lost energy and mobility.  However, I am undergoing some great physical therapy and it has done me a lot of good.  So this week I have reactivated my favorite Abobe programs, namely Photoshop and Illustrator.

To get back into the swing of things and learn the newest updated versions, I am selecting some projects to work on.  Here is a repair of a picture I found on FaceBook, of  a Civil War era sailor.  It was a tintype image and had corroded badly.  I wanted to see what the sailor looked like without all that damage.  Here he is.

The original is below.