The Clencher

Greetings, once again, from the new Project BS Headquarters. I've been relaxing and healing the last few days, but with Mom's help, my room is livable now. The Coors Park townhouse is also almost finished, save for a few wall decorations in the works or on order, depending on who you ask.

The surgery on Friday went well, and quickly. I was out of the hospital within two hours after they began preparing me, but I was in Sleeptown, VA for most of the rest of Friday. I came to long enough to socialize with Gina, her mom, and my mother downstairs over a spread of Boston Market and vegetables from WV, but I went to bed soon after that. I stayed groggy part of Saturday, but I gradually came out of the anesthesia-and-painkiller cocktail and became a productive, if sore, member of society again. I think the only funny quotes Gina and Mom got from me during my post-operative stupor was "well, I can still clench my butt cheeks, so we know that still works," or something to that effect. Indeed, that kind of thing is important.

Over the next few days of healing and resting, I caught up on some reading, caught up with Mom, and caught up on slowly getting the townhouse arranged. She helped with most of it while I wheeled around on an office chair piled up with a pillow. We also had a couple of nice dinners in the dining room, supplemented with Gina's lasagna one night, Mom's cooking another, and vegetables from Dad's garden both times. Gina's family came down to visit on the lasagna night, our first official houseguests. It'll probably be months before we have another dinner there, but it was good to break in the place!

And with that, it is time to prepare for my 1.5 days of work this week. Gerritt and I are going to the Eddie From Ohio show tomorrow night, and the weekend holds many other festivities, including a trip to Blacksburg. Cheers!