Evie Day 377
Good morning, and a happy Wednesday to you all. I’ll be using camels in my AI-generated Teams background later today. The date is 27 March 2024.
We had our little feast from Cascada la Golondrina last night. Dane enjoyed his beef burrito, and I had tacos… as one might expect. We had another order, the “special dinner” off of the “specialties” portion of the menu, so Lisa would have a little choice about what she wanted for dinner when she arrived home a little later last night.
I’m always better when she gets home. She was in DC, and I couldn’t help but wonder if the destruction of the Key Bridge would affect her trip to the airport. I wasn’t sure, in that moment, if she was flying out of Reagan National, Dulles, or Baltimore. I was just happy to have her home… but maybe not quite as happy as our four canine family members.
I had an extra session yesterday, demonstrating a tool created by a friend and co-worker. It was enjoyable, and the attendees seemed to be enthusiastic.
There are other things on my mind as well. Work stuff, personal stuff, matters of mortality. A friend reached out to me yesterday about the passing of a mutual friend’s younger brother. Greg was in my brother’s class, and they were friends. He was part of a group of us that rode the bus together back in the mid-70s. We all played basketball together on a Salvation Army team back in the winter of my freshman year of high school. I knew he had some heart issues, significantly more life-threatening than my own, and he had a heart attack in his forties. He was a good guy, and my thoughts go out to his surviving family.
I can’t help but ponder my own mortality at times like this. Some days, I feel like the luckiest man on earth. I’m a 40 year cancer survivor, had my own heart issues. For all I know, I’ve got a weak blood-vessel in my head that could pop at any time.
I can’t worry about it. I can try to live a healthier life, but no one lives forever.
Sorry… getting a little maudlin.
Hey, I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
