Category: General

  • Day 5

    Days 1, 2, 3, and 4 also available. Eating went well yesterday and I’d say it’s almost back to normal. Still adjusting to a lack of teeth so I drop some stuff and can’t clean a fork particularly well, but it’s coming along. Healing didn’t make much progress on the surface other than a thick layer of my lip kind

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  • Day 4 update

    Days 1, 2, and 3 also available. Not much to report today, but HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Swelling has continued to go down more and more. I did some pretty serious cleaning of the wounds yesterday and am amazed at how well things seem to be going. My reach-out to the racing list put me in touch with one of the

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  • Day 3 pics and thoughts

    Day 1 and Day 2 posts in case you missed them. Things are going well. I was able to eat some solid food yesterday. I have to make everything small bites, but our turkey will not have to be juiced and that’s awesome. Some random thoughts for the day: I’m on a full regimen on

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  • Facial update

    Day 1 also available. Yesterday was rough. It’s really hard to sleep sitting up and when your face feels like it was hit by a grenade. Between dozing off doing regular things and trying to get a full day’s work in, we managed to get out to the dentist and a couple of stores. I contemplated riding

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  • All I want for Christmas…

    Final race of the year yesterday at Kruger’s Farm on Sauvie Island. A cold one so I stayed in bed an extra hour and skipped the preride – it’s usually a pretty nontechnical course. That cost me about 10 seconds due to a bad line through a bog on the first lap, but the extra

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  • One last East Coast wedding

    Well, at least for now. The second in as many months – thank goodness for frequent flier miles. This one was for Geordie, the world’s biggest hater of marriage. He met this girl named Sam in recent times and she made him see the light. Really happy for them/that. The trip served as a good

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