Departure

Leaving in a couple hours. I did all my packing this morning. I finished my wife's going away present. I hope she likes it. We had breakfast with her dad at IHOP. It's hard to go away and leave the family behind.

Preparing to leave

In my slow, hands free way I am gayting ready to travel. Preparation is 75% mental anyway. Who cares if I haven't packed yet? Ha ha ha! I need to move.

Birthdays

Today we have two birthday functions to attend, filling all of the afternoon and much of the evening. Dawn needs some sleep. Korbin needs some food. I need some solitude. After 2PM, we'll be juggling chainsaws. I hope it goes better than I expect. Sundays are always so packed full of social time that I feel like I need another day afterward just to relax. Ah well. Inner peace shall be mine.

Saturday on my own

Dearest wife is working today. It's her first Saturday in many moons. It means that I have control of the house and the kids. I'm not worried about our oldest, but the baby will wake up soon and want some lunch. We might still be at the store when that happens. We'll see how it goes. I'm trying to be prepared for whatever occurs.

Anticip....ation

I'm done with my project at work. At least until they want to move the rest of the work. I've finished my book. It was a nice little murder mystery set in Scotland. Tomorrow is the last day of my phase III workout routine. i'm ready for vacation! I get my year end evaluation tomorrow morning. It's a new chapter I feel.

Enlightenment

I heard a fiery tale of family discord from Dean today. Living in close proximity to some family members for a prolonged period causes tempers to flair. It was strange to hear him tell about his dad. Their relationship is much different than my relationship with my father and also different from the relationships I want to have with my kids. He told of one day when he was 18 and the switch just flipped in his head. He was no longer afraid of his dad. I think it was larger than that. He overcame some measure of fear in general, but it helped him deal with his father in a more mature and level headed way. He won that battle and prepared himself to win similar battles. It was his sudden enlightenment, or a western equivalent anyway.

Queues

Sitting, waiting for my project to finish its run. All day. It's nice to have a chance to do some (work related) reading and try out some ideas for new and wonderful time saving devices. I just learned that my current script is running too fast, causing lower priority transactions to stack up behind it. Ha ha ha. Last time the queues got full, we lost the central region circuit inventory database for two days. My bad. Trying not to let it happen on my watch again. Every mistake costs money.