March 29, 2008 - I finally have gotten to the point where I don't feel *horrible*, but I'm still not fully recovered. I spent the day cleaning around the house. We've got a lot of dog hair in the carpet. It is amazing, I can look at the carpet, and it looks relatively clean, but then I fire up the vacuum and suddenly the machine just fills up with a huge ball of hair. I've been thinking about shaving our dogs, but I'm not sure if that would help the hair problem and if it would create problems for the dogs in the summer heat. In the afternoon I went out the recording studio and started playing along to the tracks I got last Tuesday. There are some really good songs in the list. Out of the ~110 songs that I got, I was able to come up with sheet music or play from memory about 40 of the songs, which gives me enough material to go out right now and play a full evening of music. All I need to do is start contacting agents and clubs and see who wants to book me. Mike came over and we went down to Surf and Turf for some steaks, but by the time we got there it was 7:25, and they apparently close during the summer at 7 on Saturdays. Instead, we went to Publix and he bought a couple of filets. They were really good. I think the Surf and Turf prime beef is better than the Publix choice beef, but it is close. Mike was in the mood to go out, so we walked over to O'Houstons. Meanwhile, Ellie was out at 'girls night' at some friend of Brenda's all night. This was the latest I had stayed up since last Wednesday. I think I made it til almost midnight!