Nice. I'll have to keep an eye on the blog.
I was a bio major back in college, which required intro chem and o-chem. O-chem consumed most of my time and attention the year I took it, but I did well, and I loved it. I haven't done any synthesis since then, but I've been thinking of seeing how far I can get starting from "Scratch" or close to it, making KOH from wood ash, sulfuric acid from elemental sulfur, destructive distillation of wood to get a variety of compounds, purification of urea from, the byproducts of beer and coffee consumption, etc. First though I need to spend some time thinking things through.