Hello Fay

Hello Fay, Thanks for not coming directly towards Miami. I Appreciate you doing the west coast thing very much. Be gentle with them, but you know, not to much... spit out a few shingles and clay tiles if you will. Knock over a few trees and blow some stuff through some peoples windows.
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Try not to spawn any of those Nasty ass twisters.

332 miles in 4:48

Just did the long drive back from Gainesville. It was a new personal time record of four hours and forty eight minutes. Thats one stop for gas with relatively light Sunday afternoon traffic.

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I am always sad when I drop my kids off at their mother's apartment. I think about all I am missing, and everything they are missing. Then I get in the car and just go. I watch Florida zoom by the windows and remember the miles and miles of Orange Groves that used to populate the Orlando area when I was a kid. Those groves are mostly gone now, just like my old married life. Both the groves and our marriage were a victim of cold snaps and economics.

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The snapshots of their lives are full color prints, loaded with fun, but they are still just snapshots. Having them down here in Miami was awesome. They loved riding around on the Metro Mover, and we mixed in some Chucky Cheese, the pool, the beach, a Dolphins and Marlins game and some movies, along with some boredom as they watched T.V. and I worked. They also witnessed the drubbing we took in Softball.

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Today as we woke up in the hotel room in Gainesville and I knew I would be dropping them off and doing the 332 to the 305, I was grumpy about it. I always am a little grumpy on the Sundays when I am leaving them to come back to my new life here in Miami.

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I think you take a beating in softball the same way you take it in life. You keep playing, you play your position as best you can, when you get your at bat, you try to hit it hard and also where the other guys aren't. Thats me, driving my car past the old Orange Groves, fielding my position and trying to hit it where they aint. Occasionally mixing in a little Chucky Cheese and riding the Metro mover.

August 15th

Button Pushing Rules

Pushing buttons is important to little kids. We have button pushing rules around here, since we have two button pushers, and generally only one button to push at a time.
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On the elevators when we go down, My daughter has the outside down button, and my son has the lobby button that you push once you get in the lift. Going up, My son has the outside button and my daughter has the inside button.
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At ATM machines we have to take turns pushing the screen and various buttons that process entails.
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If button pushing gets out of whack, for example, if I should accidently forget and push a button myself, then their is discussions and paybacks, and all kinds of out of whack button pushing penalties.
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When they go back to their mother I am going to end up standing around in hallways waiting for an elevator that has never been summoned. My button pushing skills are slowly diminishing. Its like my button pushing abilities have a cast on them right now, and when it comes out of the cast when they go back to Gainesville, I will have to re-build my ability to push buttons myself.

Saturday August 9th

Shortest post ever

Women.

Boogers

SON (AS HE IS LAYING ON TOP OF MY CHEST WHILE WE ARE WRESTLING): -- "Dad, you have hair inside your nose."
ME: -- Yes I do.
SON: -- You also have boogers.
ME: --Yes thats where I keep them, there, and also underneath the couch.

Softball in South Florida

I was a part of a really bad softball game tonight, Sure, I didn't walk any one as a pitcher. I only had two at bats and stroked a double and a single, both line drives, but the bottom line is we lost 18 to 5. Again we were run ruled. thats what we do. We did drink beers and talk shit afterwards which, all being equal thats the part this team is pretty good at.

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