All Eyes on Beijing

I'm noticing that the day after my chemo treatments I'm feeling a little lousy. It's no big deal. It's like waking up with a Torisel hangover.

Once the Torisel treatment is over, it's about 24-hours of feeling a little under the weather, and then I snap out of it for the rest of the week.

This morning I woke up and worked to shake off the hangover. First I had a couple of English muffins, then a tasty peach, and finally a baked chicken patty with Sweet Baby Ray's barbeque sauce. Everything was made slow and easy over a couple hours, eaten one at a time. It's part of the process back. And it's gotta' be Sweet Baby Ray's.

We woke this morning to a replay of the olympic opening ceremonies. We only caught the tail-end but it was pretty impressive, as expected.

Fortunately, I got to soak in some badminton action. I appreciate the basic principle of the sport, similar to tennis, but that shuttlecock thingy is crazy. You smash it and it takes off on a straight line like a laser, then suddenly stops and drops to the ground.

Fortunately women's soccer action came on. The olympics is on three different stations, all in high definition, and they are on all day, except for breaks for local and national news (which will also be covering the olympics) twice during the day.

It's like ESPN on steroids.

I'm lovin' it.

I mean how many times do you get to see the North Korean women's soccer team play?

Beautiful day in Central Pennsylvania though. It just doesn't get much better than this. When I woke up this morning it was a brisk 63-degrees outside. The sun has slowly punched through it's own morning hangover into vibrant, bright sunshine, now reaching 80-degrees. It's a perfect hammock day.

But there's a few more things on tap too.

We have to order and install skylight blinds for the skylight in the office so the computers aren't drenched with so much light that it becomes impossible to see the screens.

We have to decide whether to have central-air installed this fall.

We're still looking at having the parking spaces paved.

We have to reconsider rebuilding portions or all of the three chimney stacks.

We need to freshen up all the outside doors with some dark green paint and new hardware.

We need to visit the architectural salvage yard in York to find the new hardware.

We need to get some more interior painting started.

We need to furnish the room in the front of the office.

We need an umbrella stand. lol

I need to get the leaf blower out and pick up random sticks in the yard.

We need to figure out why the grass won't grow.

We need to get an estimate ready for revisions to an existing site we designed.

Well...

We need to figure out a way to get a tv out to the hammock. That's the ticket.