I’m posting fast and furiously in order to beat the storm coming this way. Like I said, no distractions. I left the WarCraft CD at home (intentionally) and my recent writing project has just hit the 60k word count and I still haven’t even started the third portion yet so I’m at a good stopping point there. I just watched both “Conan” movies back to back last night so I have no movies to watch right now. If I can keep myself from surfing the net for useless crap like Urban Sniper and shit like that, I will attain my goal of rebuilding the site tonight.
My keyboard is starting to drop the letter “a” and my misspellings will have to take a back seat to the rush to get this posted tonight. I will proofread and correct this later (maybe).
Somewhere in here I lost the post from last weekend when we went down to Mom and Dads to do a little light work around the house. I’ve got it in here somewhere but if I keep looking for it right now, I’ll never get the website back up as I promised. Especially since the lightning strike jolted me upright in the chair and now that I have looked, the sky is black and it’s only 4pm. I’m still having trouble with picture galleries since I moved to the new servers. I tried reverse engineering some code to find out why and all that but what I just need to do is resubmit them. I’ll wait until next weekend as Teresa will have plenty of pictures from Pennsylvania and I still need to post Becca’s latest Disney picture. As another famous witch said, all in good time…
Monday night I slept in my own bed at home but alone for the first time in a long time. It never fails to surprise me how difficult it is to sleep without Teresa when I’m home but I have gotten used to it when I’m on the road. It is weird. When I’m home she always has the ceiling fan running as well as a small fan by her head running on high. I can’t stand that fan. It always dries out my eyes and it’s impossible to hear the TV. When I’m on the road I rejoice in the fact that I get to set up the room the way I want it. No fan in my face. But when I’m home and she’s not, I miss her. I actually turned on that infernal fan Monday night. I like the faux-bachelor life weekend but I miss Teresa a lot and I look forward to her return. I’m such a wimp…
I finished up the trip report with a line about schedules. Most people I know are always surprised when our plans are booked four and five weekends ahead. I’m surprised that most people AREN’T booked up. With so much to do out there, what is everyone doing? We go places, do things, visit people. If we just left it to chance, none of it will get done. Too many last minute plans are suggested and we almost never get to do them because we’re already doing something else. Very rarely, a date will come up when we have nothing to do and no plans are made. That’s a lazy movie weekend. But they are few and far between. Most of the time they are a yard work/mow the lawn weekend. This weekend should be one of them but I’m working on blowing it off, Teresa’s not around to police me, the yard can look like shit for another week or two. Depending on when I get back in town from work, I have to get over to Wade’s to check diving gear, Saturday I’m driving down to Palm Bay/Melbourne. Sunday Wade and I are diving (finally!) It’s been forever since I’ve been able to get in a dive. I’ve had opportunities but the timing never works out right. I will be so happy to get back under water. Even if it’s just in a damn retention pond. I have often thought about bringing the gear down to my parent’s house and diving in their swimming pool. I would have, but I don’t own all my own gear yet. I have the mask and fins but the vest and regulator are still loaners so I can’t just pack up and go whenever I want to.
So this empty weekend filled up fast. Next weekend the clan should be coming back in to town so we’ll have a full house. Beyond that, we’re trying to join in on some camping trips, we have to make it back down to Mom and Dad’s to pick up Pagan ASAP (and maybe do a little swimming pool diving…), we have Lizzy to entertain, friends and family to visit, time is running out and schedules are filling up fast! I think it’s great. What am I doing if I’m not busy living life?
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