I was surprised at how many diaries and comments I'd missed over the past few weeks - and I like Clock's idea of cutting back on social networking and coming here more often, so I'm going to try to make it at least a weekly habit. So... let's see...
Lamb is halfway through her senior year of college and seems to be quite ready to be a fully-fledged adult. Whereas it took several tries to get Troll Jr. to leave the nest, it now feels like Lamb left without us noticing - she went back to school early (she found a brief internship she wanted to do) and when I asked if she was planning to come home for spring break she said she was hoping to go up to NYC to visit her girlfriend who graduated last year. She even seems to be handling that well, saying the two of them had agreed to take the whole relationship thing easy and just see where it went.
Troll Jr.? Don't know, nearly don't care. The LLL sent me a bundle of christmas cards to hand out (which was a ball of stress right there) but TJr never bothered to return calls or show up over the holidays so I eventually put his in an envelope along with a letter with all the LLL news he needed to know and dropped it in the mail.
I mean, I assume he hasn't moved. I rode my bike past the apartment building where he was living at one point but I didn't notice his car as I went past so who knows...
I gave SWHTL what turned out to be a very nice wine-and-fondue birthday party, just her, some of her friends and Lamb - who held her own like a champ but prefers mead or gin to wine. (Gin? Really? I hate gin.)
Christmas day itself was a quiet, pleasant event at my sister's place, aside from learning about the stuff in my last hole entry - which I've now decided I'm being too much of a drama queen about. Things will unfold the way they unfold and the part of me that enjoys a good crisis should stop trying to drum one up because it's bored.
Work, though, has gone a bit sideways. The reason I posted that press release about one of my customers was nostalgia more than anything else - because $MEGACORP just went and cancelled all future development of the stuff I do, leaving me and about 100 others hanging in mid-air trying to figure out what comes next. Just another way for me to practice my serenity and meditation.
Still, like I like to say, I don't have real problems. In fact, I have a sabbatical coming up this summer - 8 weeks of vacation on top of my regular vacation time. SWHTL and I couldn't find any single massive project or trip that we wanted to do the whole time so, instead, it's going to be a bunch of short trips, beginning with me riding from Philly to Baltimore on the way to Lamb's college graduation, then some time in a B&B in Harper's Ferry, visiting family in VA and NC, some glamping, a bike ride from Philly to Jim Thorpe, PA which will hopefully include some co-workers, and other stuff.
Also, I ended up being ranked the #12 fundraiser for BikeMS Delaware, and my cycling team is trying to come up with a new theme for our group to top the current Star Trek one. I briefly thought about something LOTR-based but I'm not doing 150 miles wearing a cloak and a pointy hat, so I'm still looking. Maybe something MCU-based?
Lamb is halfway through her senior year of college and seems to be quite ready to be a fully-fledged adult. Whereas it took several tries to get Troll Jr. to leave the nest, it now feels like Lamb left without us noticing - she went back to school early (she found a brief internship she wanted to do) and when I asked if she was planning to come home for spring break she said she was hoping to go up to NYC to visit her girlfriend who graduated last year. She even seems to be handling that well, saying the two of them had agreed to take the whole relationship thing easy and just see where it went.
Troll Jr.? Don't know, nearly don't care. The LLL sent me a bundle of christmas cards to hand out (which was a ball of stress right there) but TJr never bothered to return calls or show up over the holidays so I eventually put his in an envelope along with a letter with all the LLL news he needed to know and dropped it in the mail.
I mean, I assume he hasn't moved. I rode my bike past the apartment building where he was living at one point but I didn't notice his car as I went past so who knows...
I gave SWHTL what turned out to be a very nice wine-and-fondue birthday party, just her, some of her friends and Lamb - who held her own like a champ but prefers mead or gin to wine. (Gin? Really? I hate gin.)
Christmas day itself was a quiet, pleasant event at my sister's place, aside from learning about the stuff in my last hole entry - which I've now decided I'm being too much of a drama queen about. Things will unfold the way they unfold and the part of me that enjoys a good crisis should stop trying to drum one up because it's bored.
Work, though, has gone a bit sideways. The reason I posted that press release about one of my customers was nostalgia more than anything else - because $MEGACORP just went and cancelled all future development of the stuff I do, leaving me and about 100 others hanging in mid-air trying to figure out what comes next. Just another way for me to practice my serenity and meditation.
Still, like I like to say, I don't have real problems. In fact, I have a sabbatical coming up this summer - 8 weeks of vacation on top of my regular vacation time. SWHTL and I couldn't find any single massive project or trip that we wanted to do the whole time so, instead, it's going to be a bunch of short trips, beginning with me riding from Philly to Baltimore on the way to Lamb's college graduation, then some time in a B&B in Harper's Ferry, visiting family in VA and NC, some glamping, a bike ride from Philly to Jim Thorpe, PA which will hopefully include some co-workers, and other stuff.
Also, I ended up being ranked the #12 fundraiser for BikeMS Delaware, and my cycling team is trying to come up with a new theme for our group to top the current Star Trek one. I briefly thought about something LOTR-based but I'm not doing 150 miles wearing a cloak and a pointy hat, so I'm still looking. Maybe something MCU-based?
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