All Those Little Things... Again
This time, I'll be gone for a week--a few days in the mountains above Monterey, a couple days on the Central Coast, and a day on either end for travel.
That assumes, of course, I can get out of the state. Last week's snow resulted in a day's worth of air traveler's bumped from their flights. Today things are just caught up. My flight leaves early tomorrow morning... by which time there will be a couple inches of NEW snow on the ground. I'm planning to get up at 3:30am in expectation of messy roads. Then, I'm planning to sleep on the plane after giving those seated near my permission to wake me if I start snoring.
Dev will be spending his first night at home, all night, alone. He's pretty stoked. I have made him lists of this and that, let a couple nearby friends know Dev is on his own, and reminded myself sixteen is plenty old enough to demonstrate independence. I suspect he will eat just about anything in the house that resembles snack foods, stay up nearly all night to watch movies and play Xbox, and drag himself out of bed the next morn with barely enough time to get ready for work.
Alas, I would feel better (and so would he) if the dogs were here. But since Dev won't be at the house all week, and there is no one else to take them to the kennel, the pups must head out this afternoon. At least we know they're well-loved at the kennel. They act just as excited to arrive there as they are to go home.
I haven't written a thing in days, and decided that was just fine. It seems I have a difficult time settling in to write when I don't have the activity of karate. Good to know.
That assumes, of course, I can get out of the state. Last week's snow resulted in a day's worth of air traveler's bumped from their flights. Today things are just caught up. My flight leaves early tomorrow morning... by which time there will be a couple inches of NEW snow on the ground. I'm planning to get up at 3:30am in expectation of messy roads. Then, I'm planning to sleep on the plane after giving those seated near my permission to wake me if I start snoring.
Dev will be spending his first night at home, all night, alone. He's pretty stoked. I have made him lists of this and that, let a couple nearby friends know Dev is on his own, and reminded myself sixteen is plenty old enough to demonstrate independence. I suspect he will eat just about anything in the house that resembles snack foods, stay up nearly all night to watch movies and play Xbox, and drag himself out of bed the next morn with barely enough time to get ready for work.
Alas, I would feel better (and so would he) if the dogs were here. But since Dev won't be at the house all week, and there is no one else to take them to the kennel, the pups must head out this afternoon. At least we know they're well-loved at the kennel. They act just as excited to arrive there as they are to go home.
I haven't written a thing in days, and decided that was just fine. It seems I have a difficult time settling in to write when I don't have the activity of karate. Good to know.