Waiting for Something to Happen

Another Tuesday and Im still not in Belgium. Damn. The day stretches out in front of me like an eastern Montana road. Nothing on either horizon, cloudless sky, no hope of any relief. Sadly, it seems like this in every negative way. But, I like the boring Montana road. Its a drive unlike all others. But, today is Tuesday, I will be at work. Luck may take my mind on a journey, away down the Montana hiway I speak of, but only in my mind. At least I always have that.

Today will be non descript – clear, cool and sunny. No rain till tomorrow. I have nothing planned for outside though its a great day for a long hike. The kind of hike when you can wear a light jacket and not benover dressed, still wear sunglasses and maybe shorts. Not too hot, but a little on the cool side. Note to self, forget work and go for a walk in the woods. Try to remember what it is in life that is truly important. Very few, if any, work days in your life will be important.

Does everyone, at my age, approaching retirement become as sanguine (Latin again!)about life as I am? I seldom ask others but maybe I should make more of a study of the topic. I do know that most, from what conversations I have had, are looking past the work they are doing and thinking of all the things they would rather be doing. Maybe they think this way to survive long enough in their job to get there. Or maybe the fantasy of a better future will get them there even if they never even attempt to make it come true. I don’t know.

Just had a long texting session with my favorite and long winded (if a texter can be) friend Cissie. She is intensely on the house hunt. New place to live for her and
Husband Dave. Also, seperate quarters for her adult daughter Trisha. As you know, Trisha lives above our garage right now. Cissie has two offers out right now and from what I can tell, its looking good for one being accepted. She sent me links with lots of pictures so i made my vote on my favorite. And my opinion is incredibly important. She had the audacity to like my second choice. The nerve. Its very exciting for them and we will lose Trisha. And her 10 cats. Oh well.

This morning, on the way to work, I did something I have been planning for a while. I joined a local gym. Now that I have finally reached my weight goal its time for fitness goals. I had scoped out local gyms over the last few weeks and this one was the clear winner. It also happens to be a franchise and has a location near our new home in Auburn. Double benefit. I sat with the manager for half an hour and got the full run dowI on the place. She is going to meet up with me this coming Thursday morning, early. We are going to set up a program for me that she will download to my phone. A live coach setting up a virtual coach. I am looking forward to the workouts. In 6 to 8 weeks I will be a lean, mean fighting machine, like John Candy. Or, 160 lbI of solid steel and sex appeal, men’s fright and women’s delight. Fish will fear me. Yeah, right. It could happen.

Got to work at 11 in time for my appointment with Hal. We are going over mutual clients and calling prospects and checking status on work in progress. We set up some more appointments for lower level tax planning. We do some multi million dollar planning but some folks need lower level work. I don’t like leaving any money on the table.

Hal and I worked on clients and related issues till 130, I had no more appointments for the day. Except for my IT guy. He came by to pick up my CPU. It needs to become a 64 bit machine in order to be up to date enough to run my tax software. Lovely, I gotta spend more moneI to stay up to date. I have spent $6K in the last three months on computers. I hate this crap. The most expensive thing I have to pay for after salaries. Running a business sucks.

Well, Ryan of IT fame, took my ability to work with him when he took the CPU. I can’t do anythinI without a computer. So I could have just left and gone home. Instead I did filing and desk cleaning. That was awesome. I also made phone calls (but not emails). This filled the rest of my day which seems hard to believe.

I had a couple of stops on the way home. I need a duster. I noticed, once I had cleaned my desk off, how dirty and dusty it was. Hence the duster. I also need a lanyard for my gym fob. The fob gets me in the door. I got the dusteI but no lanyard at the market. Next stop, Taco Tuesday!! My favorite dinner of the week. Carnitas and Chile Verde con Nopales for me and my bride. They are sometimes just better than usual. Today it was. It was also fun to have the girl at the carniceria trying to guess what I was going to order. I go there way too often I think.

We had a nice meal. Finished off the rest of the free wine I got last week. It is perfect with Mexican food,

The rest of my evening was spent watching TV and typing up the blog. And, it’s Tuesday so I get to put out the garbage!! I know, you want to be me. Too bad, no more room at the top. Time for garbage now. Then bed.