Recently, some weird things. I am sitting in my new office, and I can clearly hear an office down the hall and a woman confiding in her peer that she is getting a divorce and I can hear her detailing how they are splitting assets and everything. It is just difficult to hear this stuff – I’d like to give her a hug, and at the same time, I wish I could send them to counseling. The level of frankness and matter-of-factness with which she is explaining it is amazing.
The other weird thing is that I have heard 2 or 3 times in the last few days about dead-beat kids taking money from their parents. Totally weird to me – people who think that either they “deserve” to be heir to their relatives’ hard earned work and assets or that it is owed to them or that there is no problem stealing from kin. Seems so weird to me – there is no entitlement with the way my family lives – there is no reason to expect that we should get something for free. Crazy.
So anyway – I am in a new place and it seems like I am hearing more of this kind of crap – I don’t know if it is related to being in a new place – but I hope I can dodge this kind of diseased thinking. I’ll just keep my headphones in and let the turbulance continue around me.
Leroy here. We had a great time at the beach this weekend. Visited a large Dolphin pool called the Gulfarium. That was fun and EK seemed to enjoy the animals. Then we went to Baytowne Wharf and walked on the pier, ate some great New Orleans style food. So that was fun. Kind of a touristy thing to do – spending the day in Destin / Sandestin. But then on Sunday we spent the day at the beach. Literally spent 5 hours sitting there. That is something I never do, except now I discovered the “right” way to do it. An umbrella. Yup, goofy looking rainbow umbrella is definitely the way to go if want me to hang out at the beach. Ordinarily I get fed up with the book I am reading blinding me (yes, I wear sunglasses) and I get tired of sweating. But this time, with the shade and relief from sun, I was able to chill. It was great. And EK was great too – she didn’t fuss much, although she wasn’t fond of the water and sand. But she played in her pack-n-play and was basically content the whole time. Amazing. Relaxing. Awesome.
