Since I Have Been Gone
I have to say, the blog has been hard to keep up with everything going on. Still, time to write a few things.
The baby is doing great. I have started to refer to the girls in the traditions of the Royal Navy, hence they are now ( in order of age) Number 1, Number 2 and Number 3, for First Mate, Second Mate and Third Mate. Number 1 seems to think that Number 3 should be known as Cabin Girl, but we will see. Number 3 is practically the perfect baby: healthy, fun, mellow and happy. Wife is back to work and we are settling into the daycare routine and so far so good.
Number 1 is moving in with us for the summer then off to college. Her mom seemed to think that she should not go to college and just live at her mom's home until a suitable christian husband could be found for her. Clearly, Number 1 and I think that is insanity, so the answer is to head west. Frankly, my first ex wife is only getting nuttier and more cultish. I am going out for her "home school" graduation, that should be a decent into the early 19Th century, or a mad house.
Number 2 is a full on pre-teen. Given how things are going with her mom, I expect a full boatload of teenage drama coming from that side of the bay, loaded with all the usual mother daughter combat and a healthy topping of hormones.
The next several years should be interesting.
Sword work had to take a back seat, thanks to a bout of tendinitis. I am probably the only person in the last 100 years to get "sword elbow" It seems to have healed up, so workouts will recommence in the next week or so.
I seem to be filling my life with a lot of activities, maybe a tad too much. But I am not backing off. I realized that for almost my entire first two marriages I developed a list of things that I wanted to do but put on hold for some day when I had more time or more money or what ever. In effect, I put things aside so that I could pay for kids and a non working wife and what they needed, thinking that one day I would get to them.
But you know, that day is not here, and if I put if off any longer, it may never come.
Hence, the swords and becoming proficient in them. Add to that I am taking lessons on the Mandolin and I am building a skin on frame Kayak, and when done with that I have plans for a canoe and a sailing faering. The list is a bit longer, but suffice it to say, I am not waiting to do these things, I am doing them now ( add to that taking the wife to Hawaii this summer and taking my son backpacking with my brother and nephew in Yellowstone) while I have life and health and strength.
The Wife gets this and is pretty much supportive. We also have our shared goals and those are getting time, so it is not about her sacrificing so much, as it is about being really busy.
But I like it. Too many years and too many daylight hours have been wasted waiting for the right time.
The time is now.
The baby is doing great. I have started to refer to the girls in the traditions of the Royal Navy, hence they are now ( in order of age) Number 1, Number 2 and Number 3, for First Mate, Second Mate and Third Mate. Number 1 seems to think that Number 3 should be known as Cabin Girl, but we will see. Number 3 is practically the perfect baby: healthy, fun, mellow and happy. Wife is back to work and we are settling into the daycare routine and so far so good.
Number 1 is moving in with us for the summer then off to college. Her mom seemed to think that she should not go to college and just live at her mom's home until a suitable christian husband could be found for her. Clearly, Number 1 and I think that is insanity, so the answer is to head west. Frankly, my first ex wife is only getting nuttier and more cultish. I am going out for her "home school" graduation, that should be a decent into the early 19Th century, or a mad house.
Number 2 is a full on pre-teen. Given how things are going with her mom, I expect a full boatload of teenage drama coming from that side of the bay, loaded with all the usual mother daughter combat and a healthy topping of hormones.
The next several years should be interesting.
Sword work had to take a back seat, thanks to a bout of tendinitis. I am probably the only person in the last 100 years to get "sword elbow" It seems to have healed up, so workouts will recommence in the next week or so.
I seem to be filling my life with a lot of activities, maybe a tad too much. But I am not backing off. I realized that for almost my entire first two marriages I developed a list of things that I wanted to do but put on hold for some day when I had more time or more money or what ever. In effect, I put things aside so that I could pay for kids and a non working wife and what they needed, thinking that one day I would get to them.
But you know, that day is not here, and if I put if off any longer, it may never come.
Hence, the swords and becoming proficient in them. Add to that I am taking lessons on the Mandolin and I am building a skin on frame Kayak, and when done with that I have plans for a canoe and a sailing faering. The list is a bit longer, but suffice it to say, I am not waiting to do these things, I am doing them now ( add to that taking the wife to Hawaii this summer and taking my son backpacking with my brother and nephew in Yellowstone) while I have life and health and strength.
The Wife gets this and is pretty much supportive. We also have our shared goals and those are getting time, so it is not about her sacrificing so much, as it is about being really busy.
But I like it. Too many years and too many daylight hours have been wasted waiting for the right time.
The time is now.
posted by Maurice_Basilius at 2:19 PM
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