G’day!

I have been absent for a while. Did you miss me? Oh no, it is ok, there is no need to feign some significant loss in your life due to my lack of posting for a tinsy bit. It’s ok. I already know how distraught you were. We will leave it at that shall we? That way my ego does not endure an insufferable blow and I can continue strutting around like someone of import.

Its interesting how life sometimes takes over the best of plans and sends them scattered about the field like a wave crashing down on a to do list written in water soluble ink. Mind you, nothing dramatic has occurred in my life, I am still me, and I am still living the same life you have been reading about (at least periodically).

However,

Sometimes the wave is a little more subtle.

And sometimes it is not. Work is a Tsunami. To say that I am feeling a little overwhelmed by it is perhaps the most major exaggeration I have come up with in this entire blog… post. I have two projects that will not go away - the fun creative part is over. What is left is the tedious, totally non-fun parts. I keep trying to brainstorm ways that I can put a creative spin on them, but the ideas are not really sticking because I know that deep down its just putting a pretty mask on an ugly beast. Yet, it needs to be done. So I go on.

Then I have a looming project - and I am talking about facing goliath with a little bit of leather and a pitiful piece of limestone type project. My performance on the project (which I have no technical knowledge of how to complete), while it may have an important impact on my future career, at least at *this* company, it’s probably not of biblical proportions… so I may have been wrong about the whole biggest exaggeration in this post thing earlier.

However, you get that sometimes.

When I am not working, I have been trying to give some of my beleaguered attention to my wife, family, and dear friends. In many ways, I have succeeded.

And failed.

My in-laws, my surrogate mother and father celebrated their 43rd Wedding Anniversary recently.

43 years!

In my book (indeed, in my library), that is an impressive milestone. Yet instead of personally wishing them well or getting a congratulatory gift befitting the occasion, I only managed to post a brief missive into the cyber-unknown for them. While it was extremely heartfelt, I feel poorer as a person for not being able to muster more.

Recently I have found myself in a fast moving river. Things have been sliding past the wayside, in more ways than one; because I have been too busy paddling to keep afloat. And I have not been able enjoy (and equally as important), let you know, that I am enjoying swimming in ALL of your various streams.

To all of you, I am still here. I have not gone off to swim in better rivers. I still enjoy your currents. I hope to let you know that in the future. However, if I can’t anytime soon, know that I do.

Thanks for stopping by and remember: It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

My happiest congratulations to my Mother and Father In Law on their 43rd Wedding Anniversary!

Two of the nicest and kindest people that I know.

A guy couldn’t ask for better in-laws. Honestly. (The rest of you reading this are missing out! Nerny ner ner)

Both of you have helped me feel less like a stranger in a strange land, and much more like a part of the family. I could not wish for better people to willingly serve as surrogate mom’s and dad’s - there just are no better. You two are cream of the crop.

43 years. Wow. You two most really dig each other eh?

Here’s wishing you many many anniversaries to come. I look forward to toasting you both in some way or other each and every time.

With all my love to both of you,

Scott