Alrighty, I’ve got a little making up to do. Once again, hello gentle reader, whether you are an old friend, a new friend, a stranger, or my intended audience of unknown grandchildren that have yet to breathe the air of Earth yet.
I take a look at a genealogy website, and I get amazed by where the family has come from. I can easily trace the roots of my family back several hundred (a thousand?) years back to the British Isles and the mainland of western and norther Europe. Lots of English blood, lots of Scandinavian blood. To be honest, a lot of the English blood contains some Scandinavian roots as well.
Which leads me to wonder where the future family roots will lead. Sure, my kids share the genetic roots of my wife and me. But my grandchildren, great-grandchildren will have 25% or 12.5% of my genetic material, and every further generation will cut that in half with every iteration. The DNA of my 4-greats grandkids will have 3.125% of my genetic legacy, and 96.875% will come from other trees. Who knows where that other content will come from? More European? Asian? African? I hope, somehow, someway, I get to discover what happens with my lineage in the next life.
OK, so that clears up about a third of what I needed to write today to get caught up. I haven’t been quite as dedicated to writing the last few days. We’ve implemented a new tool set at work, and we’ve been working through a few things, finding some incomplete or mismatched records. It’s kept us busy. I also had to get some paperwork done for work that I had been putting off – ok, in reality, it had completely slipped my mind, but my manager is cool, and very supportive, and she cut me a little slack. I got it done yesterday (and if that could count for a 200 word blog entry, I’d jump all over it, but those words don’t get counted in my site metrics, now, do they?. So, yes, work and life have been a higher priority, so addressed those needs, then went to bed rather than write.
I’ve had some ideas for some interesting characters/themes for my fiction writing pursuits. I’m still fleshing things out, thinking about the characters and their attributes. Is there a posse/crew/sidekicks? Is it more of a lead/sidekick relationship or more of a group of peers? Maybe a small core group of peers, and a wannabe or two tagging along, hoping to prove themselves useful? And then, of course, what kind of trouble can they get themselves into?
Back to work related stuff…
One of the things I do like about our toolset and our scheduling, it gives me a chance to dig into the process a little more. We’ve had to be vigilant about the deliveries that are soft, which are confirmed, which overlap with other deliveries. The process is educational, and I’m learning about all of the steps that go in to the class planning process.
I’m not going to complain about the downtime. I knew what I was getting into when I signed on – anywhere from 50 to 70% travel. I can expect to be in the road three weeks out of every month. Sometimes a plan will change, and I get back back to back weeks at home. I’m adapting. It’s a whole process, and now after having dealt with the passing of Dad, I need to refocus and get back to work. Work is welcome. I know the whole “at the end of his life, he regretted not working more” spiel. One of the things I’ve learned about this company is that they do care about me, my family, and getting my burned out. I’ll be alright. Right now, work is welcome relief.
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He’d go back to work, and dive back in.
He wouldn’t write down and share his feelings on the matter.
In some ways, I am so much my father’s son, and in other ways, my own man. A product of a different time and different interests. Dad loved internal combustion engines, and I have a similar penchant for technology.
Dad would go back to work.
I going to follow suit.
Peace y’all.
