Sunday, 11 May, 2008 18:43 sensibilities; insulted by life, dying... loving nonetheless. I g…

I got a nice compliment about the haiku yesterday, so I'll leave it there for another day.

I did get a good nights; sleep last night, which was lucky, 'cause I need the extra strength today, crying takes a lot of energy.

Last mothers' day, I was too worried about Karen to really miss Mom... but I made up for it this year, missing both of them.

I know that Karen's' kids are hurting today, too... I wish that I could comfort them, but I really can't.

There is no comfort, just grief.

I had a chance to talk to my neighbor lady to the west this afternoon, she's really nice... I've met her before, but we never talked very much.

Mary Jo... I asked her once again what her name was, and then during the conversation I used her name four times, so that I will maybe remember it now.

She told me that the neighbor west of her had lost his wife two weeks ago... I'll have to go over and meet him.

I've watched several movies today, Transformers was one of them... lot of cool special effects, not much variation from the standard plot of action pictures, the bad guys lost again.

People say that Hollywood is the main cause of immorality in our society; but the moral is pretty clear in most movies. Happy ending, with the bad guys never winning.

Well, they do occasionally, but it's far from being nearly as frequently as it occurs in real life.

In real life, of course, the bad guys almost always win, and we ofttimes don't know they're bad until after they've won.

I had a boss once that told me that hiring someone was hard; you never know what you're getting.

Firing someone, though, was always easy; you knew what you were getting rid of.

I keep waiting for the retirement reality to kick in... but it hasn't hit me yet.

I know that I am going to terribly miss the people that I work with, and I need to make some new friends and activities to keep me socialized.

I'm gonna have to make a budget, one that I can stick with.

I will play it as I go along... the whole idea is to not be structured.

I've pretty much had it with structured.

I have not ad-libbed life for a long time, and I think that it's gonna be fun.

And scary, of course.

How long will it be before I'm driven to play bingo at the local RCC? Years and years, I hope.

And Callie just jumped on the keyboard and I lost a lot of great words, damned cat.

And it's almost 20:30, which is bedtime.