I love what I'm doing day #362

The post birthday deluge...

Yesterday was interesting. I usually get a bit sick a few weeks post flu shot, nothing bad but I'll sniffle for a few days and move on.

Not this year.

I got full on dripping from my nose, hoover dam, sinus drainage going on. Double doses of dayquil(registered trade mark!) weren't even cutting it. I think the major cliff in my precipitous descent into a full on medical emergency took place in the days leading up to the last exam. You know, stress, no sleep, more stress, more no sleep...

Which leads me to the days events. I woke up late thanks to a drug induced coma from the night prior. Greeting me on my phone was a text from my prof wondering why I wasn't in small group. I had of course sent out an email advising I was sick the night before, and I of course sent it to the wrong email address. Oh well.

I then spent the next day alternating between studying and checking to see if the grade from my last exam was posted online. Mind you these cycles lasted anywhere from .3 seconds to 15 seconds at the longest.

After doing this for 8 hours, I decided that it was time to party. I went home and was greeted by my wonderful wife who had set up a really sweet surprise for my birthday.

Look, I can hang things on walls!

For those of you not in the know, I raced my mountain bike over the Rockies from Canada to Mexico (all by myself and everything). There were lots of pro photographers on the course in different places and Liz went around online finding some really cool shots of me. She then got some great custom prints. The big one is printed on sheet metal and the smaller ones are printed on a metalic paper and framed in custom bike chain frames. Totally sweet.

Wanna know what's also sweet? Now you're in the know about the bike race! Aren't you awesome! Be sure to go to tour divide.org for more!

After the picture fest, the lucky lady and I went to a swank little bistro for burger and debate. All I'll say about that is, "I love Big Bird." And, I also want to see him in the unemployment line.

After that I went to bed, early, with tons of nyquil (trademark!) onboard.

Pretty good day, lord knows I loved it!