sounds familiar Musing on the present. Reminiscing about the past. Posturing for the future.

pretending to remember

Happy Monday night to you this Tuesday morning, my friends. Tomorrow is my this week's Friday, as after that I'm away from the sawmill for a full seven days. Seven days, folks. Then it's up to Oregon for some displaced work (y'know, work away from your day-to-day desk always feels different). After that, I have one single, solitary, lone-wolf day back in the office before I'm off for yet another week. It's going to be a fast and spotty July. And, when I get back on the 23rd, it'll be a mere month or so away from the beginning of my sabbatical. Two. Months. Vacation. 'Nuff said. Let's get this over with.

Remember way back when I was all obsessed with the bermudagrass infestation in my lawn? I went out and bought some serious poison, which I applied twice with some success and then didn't follow up with the prescribed regimen and thus wrecked any small progress I made, 'member? Anyway, I shoulda stuck with the regimen, y'all... I really shoulda. My lawn is at least 60% bermuda these days... I swear. Those little tendrils snake their way out of the boundaries of the lawn and onto the bare concrete of the driveway and sidewalks, where they stand out like blinking neon: "Dave got weeds."

The other morning on the way to work, I came up with a novel new game to play while alone in the car. Speaking imaginary eulogies for those I know; practicing, out loud, the from-the-heart tributes I'd give in their honor at their funerals. May seem macabre, but I got a lot of enjoyment out trying to condense the essence of those I know down into small little speeches. I would revise my speech as I went, looking for honest, impactful, "real" things to say. It works best for those I know best, of course - easier to talk honestly about someone you understand (or think you do). This isn't to say I want anyone I pretended-to-remember to actually slip this mortal coil, I guess I just enjoy hearing myself talk.

Goodnight.

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