I will return after this brief message . . ..

OK, I know I sort of just disappeared for the past few weeks and I never did post the pictures I promised. This afternoon I started organizing shots that were taken the last few days of the tour. I'll get them posted as soon as I can. I have a brain full of topics to write about and hope I can resume nearly daily updates starting now.

I arrived home from the Yanni tour with the worst chest and head cold I've ever had. The head congestion took a week to clear along with the associated aches and pains. I am still trying to get my chest clear. This nagging cough is getting old. I feel great though and I've restarted my regime of daily swimming and hiking when the weather permits. It has been raining most of the weekend here but the skies are starting to clear and Hershey, Angie and I along with my friend Bryan M, and his girlfriend Cassie are going to hike the Rainbow Lake trail and see what the waterfall looks like after two days rain. Yes, I'll get some pictures.

Being sick for a week put me behind on just about everything. It is hard to imagine the amount of things that need to be done immediately when you've been out of town for a couple of months. During that first week I'd wander downstairs to start a project and after a few minutes, crawl back into bed and dream that it would all just take care of itself. It doesn't. Two weeks later and I'm not really caught up yet, is anyone ever really? I can at least see manageable tasks that at which I can chip away a piece at a time.

I have to remember to look at this journal as something that I won't complete in a day either. There is really so much I'd like to write about everyday that I sometimes don't start for fear I won't finish.

Thanks to all who inquired as to where I've been for a few weeks. Even my own mother and sisters have been bugging me about updating the journal.

I have to go now, Angie is calling me at this very moment to come fix the kitchen sink which chose this very moment to start leaking. See how it goes!

Dan

¶ 4:10 PM