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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (22101)	1/25/2005 1:56:36 PM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32918

feeling better yet? Thanks for asking, dear. Yes. I feel a LOT better, but don't feel "good" at all. Pretty much the difference between wanting to die and wanting to do the deed myself. I haven't been to my office in nearly a week. I'm too weak to feel safe driving a car. I think it's literally been 2 weeks now since I've driven a car. Though I've finally started eating a little bit, I'm still losing weight and what little muscle tone I ever had. I don't recall ever feeling so weak in my life. If I remember right, I was crowding 220 lbs a couple of weeks ago. At least 215. Had plateau'd and was staying in the 215-220 range. This morning I weighed 201. And it frustrates the heck out of me. I've got a lot of great ideas and plans I'm very excited to implement, but can't really do them from home. And it's like I'm going to have to relearn to play the piano. Feels like atrophe. Arrgghh!! My daughter has a very aggressive trumpet solo this year with an equally aggressive piano part that I'd already been having trouble learning because of its difficulty level and my limited time for practice. We tried to play it the other night and halfway through butchering it, I had to go lay down because I was physically exhausted. Although this piece is exhausting on a good day. Speaking of which, let me throw in some Daddy Pride here. Her solo this year is Concert Etude (Opus 49) by Alexander Goedicke. If you get a chance to listen to that song, you'll know why I, a darned good trumpet player myself, am absolutely in awe of her abilities. Listen to it then consider that not only can my daughter play it flawlessly at full speed, she's just 15 years old and first picked up the trumpet about 4 years ago. She's still trying to decide between Berklee, Julliard, and Eastman. <g> It's a very, very fast song that lasts about 3 minutes, yet the piano part is so busy, it occupies 12 pages. And, of course, the page turns are always at the worst places. We were able to get away with making a copy of last year's 8-page solo and tape the pages together to avoid page turns, but that won't work this time. Back on-topic... follow your doctors orders to the T, no matter how 'over kill' they seem or you will regret it Definitely. They're going to do the blood tests today. No idea how long it'll take to find out, but apparently if it's any of a few particular strains of mono, all they can do for me is order bed rest. And I've really had my fill of that. Major cabin fever, but no strength to do anything about it. I did sit outside with my daughter a bit yesterday just to get some fresh air and will try to do so a little bit today, too. Extra frustrating to be stuck at home, too, with decent weather, and from where I'm sitting in the living room, I can see a huge mess in the workshop I'd love to tackle. Ain't happenin' yet. tke care of your administrative self and let dave put out the fires till you are 100% That's been 100% Dave's job for a long time now. A fact for which I'm infinitely and constantly grateful. I'm now reduced to "geek with business cards" meaning I take care of the programming and all the operational aspects of the companies. Fortunately, most operational aspects are capable of running on auto-pilot for a short time (though not optimally) and there are no emergency programming needs.