Making It Up As I Go Along #272

MONDAY...
— Tired day at work. I didn’t sleep tonnes last night and even was laying in bed at 2:00 AM thinking “maybe I’ll call in and tell them I’ll take time off until 11:00 so I can sleep more.” I didn’t do it though and worked on about four hours of mediocre sleep.
— Get my resume done and sent for the promotion coming up in our office. This means I don’t leave the office until about 4:45 or so.

TUESDAY...
— Learn some new stuff in AFIS so it’s an okay day where you don’t get stated and some skills are put to the test.
— A walk with Kiyomi is good at second break.

WEDNESDAY...
— Four years ago today, I moved to Ottawa. It leads to reflection, both of what I left and what I now have.
— Evening shift for a day. I switch with someone who had a family thing going on tonight. The extra sleep and break from some is a good thing.
— Go to work in my Leafs jersey. Get lots of smiles and laughs from the poor Senator fans... and the loss tonight makes me think those fans will be a bit more whiny about it all tomorrow.

THURSDAY...
— Quick change as I’m in for the day again today. By lunch, that tires me out. Put it with doing a dozen unsuitable fingerprints and that tiring out is more so... but unsuitables are kind of good to do... really bad finger prints that you have to try to work through in order to search them off our database. It’s more of a test than doing regular prints.
— Dinner and a movie with Karl is nice enough. I’m a bit tired during the movie but Fracture isn’t half bad all the same. I may have missed some stuff fighting the sleepiness though.

FRIDAY...
— Work is okay... been a long week though and there are things going on that still tire me out.
— Sheila and her room mate, Nicole, pick me up for Michelle’s BBQ... the BBQ itself is pretty good and a bit of a thunder storm ends the night.
— Oh, and a funny thing at work today. Kiyomi and I go out at last break and as soon as we hit the bottom of the steps to a courtyard, a baby groundhog pops out from under a bench and runs at me... bounding twenty or thirty feet across a walkway. It stops a mere inch from my foot, stares at me for a few seconds, and then runs off under some bushes.

SATURDAY...
— Quite day followed by a BBQ with Devin and a few of his friends. Then it’s the hockey game. Not a bad night, Devin has a great house out in the country.


Attack of the Groundhog.
Steps to the grass, we take them all
The courtyard looks so fair
But when we reach the bottom
We’re in for quite a scare.

It comes bounding up upon us
It was a couple pounds or three
Bouncing fur sprinting
Its sights are set on me.

Closer still it’s coming
No hesitation as it goes
We play a game of chicken
And me with sandaled toes.

A little baby groundhog
How can it be so brave?
But I can show no fear
That’s not as a man should behave.

Closer still it comes to me
Who’ll be the first to blink?
I stand there in mortal fear
Into my toes, baby teeth will sink.

Almost now upon me
His nails clatter on the ground.
And still I wait just standing there
Too scared to breath a sound.

The moment of truth is here
Life flashes before the eye
For it all appears most certain
Which one of us will die.

And then the most improbable
As I stand frozen like a deer.
He screeches to a sudden halt
Missing my toe by just a hair.

A moment passes between us
Some understanding between he and I.
And then he scurries under a bush
And with relief, I look to the sky.