July 03, 2006
The Daily Walk
Shore Break Punalu'u Beach Park Kau... I wish I was there at least once a day...this is likely my favorite spot on earth...
Its hot here in the Ozarks 90-95 every day, I get up and walk three times a day at work, 10 minutes 9 12 and 2pm. I am getting a Hawaiian looking tan, People find my story more plausable the browner I get.
The building complex is surrounded by open fields and just beyond is the highway, There are service roads encircling the buildings, all day long there are joggers and walkers using the area so I am safe.
The fields are full of life, birds small animals and even a deer or two in the cover of tall grass and the bushy trees. The few moments outside makes the increasingly stressfilled hours more bareable. The skies filled with clouds, sometimes huge and meanecing other times reminding me of a heard of fluffy sheep scattered before a sheepdog... I have befriended a pair of sissortailed flycatchers, atleast they let me within 15 feet of them. once I get close enough to take a good photo I will
Going back into the office, my new bossman always asks..."well how is it out there?" I always dread the question because I know this cyclist ag major hates being shut away from the sun. So do I
Its horrid at work, as most of the freight is comming from the plants in Californina we call it California burning, There is so much work that it cannot be done, so the California people are always behind. On the other had me and the other man that is handling cargo out of the midwest are not as pressured but it is comming. As agroup we are a much better team than what I was on before,and I feel like I can cope with the work, Boss man is no micro manager and somewhat of a yes man, so I just push on and keep going.I tell him little sometimes not speaking to him all day about work. Then when I am ready, I walk out, without a huge guilt trip being laid on me. They are working on a rotation for saturdays, and I am ok with that. If Im not, at the time, I may just not go in...
My Mother is stable but according to the surgeon that inserted the IV stint and the feeding tube, it isnt at all like Terri Schaivo, rather we are keeping her comfortable, she is not long for this world and as things continue to break down there will be less and less that can be done. He told me that while he couldnt predict how long it "wasnt going to be long" I pray that this is so
Its the time of year that I start thinking about what I am going to write about for 9-11 on my blog
Lux AeternaAs I was pondering...I actaully have a topic in mind, and have begun work on the "service".. I was encourged by a freind to sign up and write for the
blogging project "2996"This project's goal is for all of the 2996 victims of the 9-11 attacks to be memorialized on this the fifth anniversary of the attacks. I contacted the people in charge they signed me up and I will be writing a memorial for a victim selected at random by a computer. I received the name of a 34 year old firefighter, a father, with little available on line about him so I will be doing a bit of reasearch. Even if I am not able to finish it on time I will write as much as I can learn about him. I along with the originators of this idea feel that these people deserve to be remembered. Please if you have an intrest check this out and perhaps get involved...
This week will be an interesting one with the holiday and Woody's birthday...hes bought his own birthday present, wait till you see it...
