Before Sunup

I know, I know. I said I was done, and I am. But old habits die hard. Besides, it’s freezing outside right now. Plus, there’s still half an hour before sunup. Oh, and for the record? I’ve been sick for most of the past month with (I think) pneumonia. At least, there was this thick yellow gunk I was coughing up from way down deep in my lungs. So, anyway, who needs a chest x-ray? Not I. Trust me.

This was then followed by the Mother-of-All-Sinus-Infections. You know, the kind where the headache extends from the crown of your skull all the way down to the roots of your incisors? This was how bad it got: I started taking some of those leftover Amoxicillin capsules that our daughter Kate brought home. It’s sold OTC in China and the instructions are all in Mandarin, so we had to Google to find out the proper dosing and schedule. Necessity is the mother of invention.

Anyway, I’m feeling much better now – thanks for asking. And the point, really, is not to gross you out, but rather that you will hopefully cut an old geezer some slack here in the early days of retirement post-dewconsulting. Speaking of which… If you were once a subscriber, I’ve discontinued that feature due to a version-incompatibility pointed out by a particularly eagle-eyed reader (Thanks, Lisa!) who told me the pictures weren’t coming through consistently on email. Hence, you’ll have already had to click a link to read this at all:  Mea Culpa. But the pictures are more than half the fun. So, I say, it’s a small price to pay.

 

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Today we’re going back to our early blog roots for a This Day in History post from history.com about the cornerstone-laying of the U.S. White House in 1792.  You can read the full story here. For those of you in the DC area, go take the official tour. Here in CO, may I suggest a trip up Mt. Falcon to see the old Walker estate, including ruins of what John Walker once envisioned as the site of a Western White House where our harried POTUS could really get away from it all. Hey, it ain’t Camp David, but that is exactly the point.

 

OK, OK, sun’s almost up – time to hit the trail. Also time for another timely dose of Amoxicillin. Thanks a million, Kate!