wow, i think it's *fall* already!
i promised a good friend hereon that'd i'd update this evening ... the last little quip didn't suffice ... this will be a brief update on where i've been hiding ... something more thought-provoking another day perhaps (there's plenty on my mind ...)
firstly, my sons were all back together again after a two year assignment away for the oldest. we managed to spend about a whole month of the summer (not all at once) getting away together: desert-doggin', climbing, camping, and other guy-getaways. with the eldest now being 21, i never know how many more of these things we'll be able to pull-off. and i've learned long ago that time, with its precious opportunites, don't come back around again. seize the moments!
secondly, my business partner and life-long friend had to pull-off an interstate move, due to his changing a job. he suffers from an incurable, degenerative muscle disease about which his former employer was far too inflexible. [ he's probably the finest, most committed, and one of the most brilliant people i've ever worked with - how *any* company could let him get away is beyond me - but big-company and sharp don't seem to coincide often enough ... ]
due to his condition, he must work in a home-based research lab ... my sons, his son, and i spent the better part of a month relocating him (part of which is also my stuff). it's an overall win for him, but the cost was high, overtaxing him despite our best attempts to avoid such.
and, of course, my own work efforts related to security seem never to let up since a year ago september. the anniversary was another high-alert for us, and that condition persists due to tensions which are all too obvious.
i guess those are my 'excuses'. i've tried to keep up on e-mail, but other 'fun' network pursuits have been few and far between for me ...
in my absence, it seems that some of my (lj) friends' lives have gone well, others have new struggles... perhaps the brightest spot is one who is now pregnant with her first child ... she has eagerly anticipated this for awhile and i believe she will be a truly *wonderful* mommy ... her life will never be the same ... it will be *better* :) ... and there are a couple of other friends who are hot on the trail of true love it seems ... bully!
the struggles have not, i'm sad to say, been lifted much by myself at least ... for this, i feel bad ... i know some plunking on a keyboard or a phone call can't do *much* ... but sometimes it helps ... :(
{{hugs & hi 5's}}
bo
firstly, my sons were all back together again after a two year assignment away for the oldest. we managed to spend about a whole month of the summer (not all at once) getting away together: desert-doggin', climbing, camping, and other guy-getaways. with the eldest now being 21, i never know how many more of these things we'll be able to pull-off. and i've learned long ago that time, with its precious opportunites, don't come back around again. seize the moments!
secondly, my business partner and life-long friend had to pull-off an interstate move, due to his changing a job. he suffers from an incurable, degenerative muscle disease about which his former employer was far too inflexible. [ he's probably the finest, most committed, and one of the most brilliant people i've ever worked with - how *any* company could let him get away is beyond me - but big-company and sharp don't seem to coincide often enough ... ]
due to his condition, he must work in a home-based research lab ... my sons, his son, and i spent the better part of a month relocating him (part of which is also my stuff). it's an overall win for him, but the cost was high, overtaxing him despite our best attempts to avoid such.
and, of course, my own work efforts related to security seem never to let up since a year ago september. the anniversary was another high-alert for us, and that condition persists due to tensions which are all too obvious.
i guess those are my 'excuses'. i've tried to keep up on e-mail, but other 'fun' network pursuits have been few and far between for me ...
in my absence, it seems that some of my (lj) friends' lives have gone well, others have new struggles... perhaps the brightest spot is one who is now pregnant with her first child ... she has eagerly anticipated this for awhile and i believe she will be a truly *wonderful* mommy ... her life will never be the same ... it will be *better* :) ... and there are a couple of other friends who are hot on the trail of true love it seems ... bully!
the struggles have not, i'm sad to say, been lifted much by myself at least ... for this, i feel bad ... i know some plunking on a keyboard or a phone call can't do *much* ... but sometimes it helps ... :(
{{hugs & hi 5's}}
bo