Scottish Highlands

Scottish Highlands

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Making It Up As I Go Along #444

Dinkie Mountain

Dinkie Mountain lays there still
A land of rock smaller than a hill
In among the back yard grass
There I played in days gone past.

My Grandmother’s house standing there
I’d crouch in the grass, the wind gusting my hair
The rocky folds as driving lanes
I’d stay for hours, until the rains.

Beyond the mountain lay meadows for sheep
I’d dream about them in my sleep
And further still a water pump
Yet my interest lay with this rocky lump.

My grandmother stood near indoors making bread
Yet I could barely be made to lift my head
Cars, trucks and a double decker bus
The first one in Joe Batt’s, but here without fuss.

And now in real car I drive
Imagining the rock, not seeing it live
Perhaps the grass has grown it over
Invisible rock, shrouded in clover.

But I know it’s there upon the land
I remember it’s rough beneath my hand
Just as I remember the bread baking kitchen beyond
With memories of my grandmother so clear and fond.


Sunday...
--- stay home from work due to lack of sleep. I sleep from 11 Sat night to midnight. Up from midnight to 3:30. Would have been work with 2 hours sleep.
--- ball team is crushed. We're tight now.

Monday...
--- slept better last night but not great. Up all but twenty minutes of the 2:30 to 4:30 time frame.
--- lunch with Shannon and Annick.
--- downtown after work to bring computers in for file transfer. Can't do it due to external drive. Home with nothing done.
--- lots of time thinking of the Vancouver job. To apply to go? Or stay? A tougher decision than I'd guess.

TUESDAY...
--- sleep better, some TV and afternoon nap before night shift at work. Pretty quiet night.
--- make my decision... I won't apply for the Vancouver AFIS job. Starting to feel like Ottawa is home, and starting over at this point, in a new city, seems like the wrong thing to do right now.

WEDNESDAY...
--- BC AFIS job deadline goes by without me. It's weird not to apply but I think, with all the factors to consider, I made the right decision. --- Louis' Pizza at work. Good stuff.
--- Cold night. -10 without the wind. Oh dear.

THURSDAY...
--- awaken to Karl's phone call. I'm late for lunch. Go eat with him and head home after for baseball vids. In the 2019 season, I win the World Series!

FRIDAY...
--- quiet day around the house. Movies, computer, hockey on the tube.

SATURDAY...
--- some movies, computer, then out in the evening with Sarah and Phil for UFC and food.

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