Thor’s Hall

It has been a long week on the road. Should be home in another 8 hours or so. Even if it is only for a quick 47 hrs it will be nice to be home, with the screaming children.

This week finds me on the road again, what else is new.  So, I get the chance to miss the first day of school for my 9 year old this year, and all the excitement that goes along with that.  I also miss the first day of Kindergarten for her sister.  First trip on the school bus, all the things that she has been stoked about doing…and following in her sister’s footsteps.

Tuesday night, I was walking out of the office here in Redwood Shores and one of my colleagues was going on about how hot it was outside that day.  Admittedly, it was unusually warm for this part of the country but all I could do was shake my head remembering the days that walking on the flight line left boot prints from the melting rubber.  Remembering days that you had to keep a bucket of water nearby to toss your tools in while working on the radar because they were too hot to pick up other wise.

One of my favorite characters in the blogosphere has another of his thought provoking  reminders up for you to read.  Go take a look.

I have spent the last 9 months of my professional life working on a project within a public higher education system.  The Dilbert cartoon from yesterday sums the entire experience up nicely.

Aging sucks.  I finally broke down and had my eyes checked… reading glasses suck.  I am not giving in easily to father time, and will fight to the end.  But, then things like this crop up and it puts this mental damper of reality on my ambitions fight the biological progression of age.

Got …. to …. vanquish… images …. from …. my ….. brain.

Well another Mother’s day just about in the books.  Not too bad a day even though it started out with my two  year old waking me up covered in her own feces.  Need to keep working on the potty training tasks – she hasn’t quite managed the clean up stage.

Had my mom in as well as doing brunch for the wife and kids.  All seemed to have a good time of it.

Tomorrow is back to the fracking Q4 grind.  After 12 years it doesn’t get any easier, and this year seems more challenging than most.

So, I had a couple of wisdom teeth extracted.  I had been putting it off hoping that they would fit well into my mouth but, no joy.

Always a weird sensation, one minute you are having a conversation and the next someone is saying ok we’re all done.  Anyway so far so good.  The pain is minimal and easily handled with ibuprofen.   Swelling has been kept to a minimum externally and is a little annoying internally but very limited.  Things look good so far I hope it stays that way.