I was in the yard early this morning hooking up a trailer and one of our mechanics came up to me…a guy I’ve gotten to know and like a lot over the past year or so.
We exchanged “good mornings” and I asked him what was new…hadn’t seen him for a few days.
My daughter died.
A simple declarative sentence.
What the hell do you mean, Rick?
Arizona. She was swimming in Arizona and dove into the river, hit her head and drowned. Twenty-two years old…
Nobody’s day should start like this.
No man should have to wake up in the morning and go to work with this on him.
No man should feel the need to talk to a casual acquaintance about his girl’s death…just so he doesn’t explode.
No man should have to hear such a thing early in the morning.
And no man should have to hold a casual acquaintance while he cries over his daughter’s death.
No man.
Aug 03, 2007, 06:08PM PDT | 6 cheers | 30 comments
If I’m not careful, I’ll be late for work, sorta…
Instead, here I am sitting at the computer enjoying that first cup of coffee.
I am capable of waking up, realizing I over-slept, bolting to the shower, jumping into my clothes and screaming off to work…but…it bothers me and upsets me to wake up like that…
So, except in extreme instances where I have a hard appointment to keep or something similar…no matter when I wake up…I give myself this one little indulgence.
And…man, that coffee is SO good…
Aug 01, 2007, 03:26AM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments
The absolute best time of the day is EARLY morning.
This morning, for example, I woke up about 2.30…
No work today, so I COULD stay in bed…but…that would just be a waste.
I got up and ground enough coffee for one cup…brewed it…and plopped my ever-widening ass here in front of the computer.
The house is silent, save for the muted clicking of my keyboard…the coffee is good and strong…and the world and most of it’s information is at my finger tips.
Perfect.
Ok, ok, a blow job would help things along some, but then she (or he, I guess) would want to talk… and I love the calm and the quiet…
And…that first cup of coffee…man, very few things are better than that…
Jul 29, 2007, 11:27AM PDT | 3 cheers | 2 comments
...so try I will.
However, my days are the same, my weeks mirror images of the ones before and the ones to follow.
I’m not sure what I can add.
I’ll have to think it over.
Jul 28, 2007, 07:52PM PDT | 1 cheer | 4 comments
