Here we are at week five from the crash, and I can now put my own hair into a ponytail. Oh my, how exciting! My shoulder has been painfully grumpy the last couple of days, but overall I’m really pleased with the speed in which it’s progressing. I have probably 85% of normal range of motion now, mostly without pain. I think I’ll be able to start working it on the cable machines at the gym next week, starting out really light of course. I can’t tell you how hard it is to be within view of a pull-up bar and not hop up to do a few.

Must.

Be.

Patient.

So, what am I doing with myself while Dave and I “house sit” at his parents’ lovely Colorado house? Well, I’m working on this website, for one: back-end stuff that will make updating while traveling much easier, a few design and wording changes to make navigating easier for readers, adding a bit of content here and there. You’ll also notice there have been ads popping up on the pages around here. I’m hoping that over time, with enough readers finding us and following our adventures, we’ll be able to pay for the website through affiliate income. When people click on an ad on our website and buy something, we get a wee percentage of the sale for the ad referral. Over time that could add up. It might be enough to pay for web hosting, our internet access fees on the road, maybe even someday a sat-phone internet connection so we can update whenever we want when we’re in the middle of nowhere–a place we hope to be quite often!

Also, there’s fun! We’re going to a show at the Boulder Theater tonight featuring Tuareg (North African) and West African musicians. Tomorrow we’re going to explore Mount Galbraith Park for some outside time. And tomorrow evening we’re going to a dinner fund raiser for the CU-Boulder chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Dave has joined that chapter and hopes to volunteer on a project when we bike tour in West Africa next fall. Dave’s brother and his family get back on Sunday from Hawaii, where he competed in the Xterra World Championships off-road triathlon. After fetching them from the airport we’ll eat pizza and watch the Packers game together. That all adds up to a pretty fun weekend.