down and back

I took a stealth trip down to long island. Thanks to traffic on the way down I actually spent less than 12 hours on good old LI. I got there at 4.30pm on Saturday and left by noon the next day. The occasion was a celebration of a good friends birthday and housewarming. I also had the chance to celebrate my brother’s Paul’s b-day. That’s something that is sure to get the goat of my other brother Glenn. Glenn’s b-day came before Paul’s and I still have yet to mail out Glenn’s gifts. This can only mean bad things in the comments field. In all seriousness Glenn, your gifts are mailing out this week.

In general, thanks to the play among other things, I’ve been really behind in things like birthday celebrations. This is one of the reasons that I think that I’ve been taking people for granted. I’m trying to get back on the path to appreciating friends and family (or rather letting them know that I appreciate them), but I have a long way to go.

In other news, and I’ll try to not be graphic about this, I think someone had fallen asleep in the men’s room at kodak.com. Either that person has one hairy breathing problem or someone was snoring in a stall. I dunno about you, but that doesn’t seem like the most comfortable place to catch some Z’s.

Brief blog

There’s one of those catchy t-shirt/mug phrases that goes something like “of I the things I’ve lost it’s my mind I miss the most.” As of late I keep thinking of that phrase, but instead of mind, I use free time. It just feels like it’s all gone. The play really knocked me for a loop; so much so, that I’ve still be reluctant to write about it. Since then work has really heated up. That’s only been compounded by the fact that during the play and immediately after I wasn’t performing up to my usual level. So I feel like I’ve got a lot to make up for.

But probably the biggest thing is that I’ve been realizing that I’ve been taking a lot of people for granted and I feel really bad about that. And trying to find the time to even think about how to fix that situation seems to be beyond me right now.

But while things might seem bleak, there’s a lot of good going on too. Works, while crazy, has been pretty good. Things with Drea have been great. I’ve been making real martial arts progress. And Ben and Jerry’s keeps turning out great flavors. I highly recommend:

Apple Crumble ™

Brown Sugar Ice Cream with Cinnamon Streusel, Apples & a Caramel Swirl

Brown Sugar Ice Cream! How cool is that???!!

a momentary interruption

the play opened last night. Have a lot to write about it. But that will have to wait until after next Wednesday. Why, I don’t want to discuss it prior to the cast & crew debrief. But I will say that we were pleasantly surprised to see we had 25 people there last night.

one more, one more thing

i did see the “call me out to blog” comments. I will respond to those before the end of the year. Who knows I might even put up a new survey…. nah, better not go that far!