Illness... abating?

So the flu I caught last week did its standard progression, from nose, to throat, to chest, to troubled breathing, to me going to a doctor, to getting antibiotics, and to resting it off. These pills are pretty damn strong, and are playing havoc with most of my gastrointestinal tract. But I'm able to breathe again, which I regard as a good thing. The shitty part was missing out on Saturday's marathon of activities.

I neglected to mention that we resurrected our scotch tasting group after a 2-3 month hiatus. To make up for it, we did two scotches. This brings us to five:

• The Glenlivet
  
• Bruichladdich
  
• Clynelish
  
• Glenmorangie
  
• Laphroaig (aka liquid campfire)
  

Recently we've been appending a visit to the Duke after these tastings, which is a favourable development. Especially when there's a hockey game on.

Time for another resolution recap:

Cooking/Lunches Going really well. I'm only forking over cash to restaurants 2-3 times a week now. Today will be a bit of an exception. I only had enough for a sandwich, which I didn't make because the thought nauseated me. So I'll be buying lunch somewhere today (provided I even get hungry today... it's showing no signs of happening so far)

Housework Still haven't made this a habit. I find myself doing some stuff while waiting for the kettle to boil in the evening. Guess I'll just have to drink more tea.

Carpentry Mothballed the past week. Last thing I needed was sawdust, stain fumes, and turpentine fumes in my lungs. But I need to make a push to get this dresser done. It's been dragging on. I'm itching to start something new, which hopefully will be completed before the end of June, so that I'll be back on track.

Electronics Haven't done a thing, except finalize my Digikey order. Hopefully that'll be in later this week, and barring any omissions, I'll have enough parts to complete two projects.

Piano One thing about being sick, it's given me a lot of time to play piano, since it's one of the few activities I was capable of. Another song is close to joining the fold now. And it's nice that this one provides a high note to end the otherwise glib list of resolution setbacks.

I've decided that my workshop could use a streamlining. It'd be nice to have a lumber rack against the long wall. I don't like leaning lumber against a wall because after a while it starts bowing. So I'm currently putting all the spare lumber on the floor along my banister. Which isn't too bad until the fifth time I stub my toe on a piece of 1"x8" on my way down the stairs in a morning haze.

I also have two sets of shelves in the workshop but no "system" for using them. And I have an old TV stand and desk where stuff that should be on shelves usually winds up. By getting rid of these, it should simultaneously enforce a system of shelf usage and free up some space. That'd be a good start.

Anyone want a desk and/or a TV stand?

Green's Law:
Length of blog post ∝ boredom at work