Making It Up As I Go Along #627

Been quite a while since I last posted.  Lots of stuff making it less of a priority lately.  

First I was at a Sunday baseball game here.  Fully intending to write when I got home from the afternoon game but exhausted after having spent more than three hours sitting in the blazing sun.

Next was two weeks in Newfoundland.  The weather wasn’t super there but it was still a great time both in town with the visiting and good meals… with a few trips around (Cape Spear, Signal Hill).  And out and about central Newfoundland was excellent too.  Seeing Bonavista and Trinity for the first time… Spending time around Botwood with Uncle Eric and Aunt Mini… And a few days on Fogo Island… weather just didn’t really matter that much.

After returning to Ottawa, I found myself drained of creative energy.  Got in Saturday night, groceries and laundry was about all I could muster on the Sunday.

And through it all, I have found that after working a day in the latent department, I have no interest in sitting down and trying to be creative.  It’s funny, I thought leaving the 12 hour shift, 4 on 4 off schedule of CPSIC would make blog writing easier… more part of my routine.  But the two day weekends fly by and I haven’t yet gotten into a good routine of having down time to go with running errands and writing.  

Anyway, things return now.  Though it’s a fairly short one this week.  While in Joe Batt’s Arm, and fairly housebound with strong winds and cold weather, I looked out to see a poor snail upon the back door mat.  The picture I took of this got me thinking… and I wrote this on my phone while exploring Riff’s store in the town of Fogo.  I did it simply to not forget the idea.  Intending to fill it out once I got back to Ottawa.  But sitting and looking it over, it seems to me that there’s nothing to add.

Helpless

Curse these handless hands

As I rap rapplessly at your door

Leaving stickiness to show my attempts

To get close to you

Making It Up As I Go Along #626

Seven or More

Them:

Enjoy your meal

Let me know 

Can I get anyone

Anything else?

Me:

I’m sorry

I never got

My orange juice

If you please

Them:

Oh so sorry

I’ll be right back

With your juice

And anyone else?

Them:

Here’s some water

For you all

To sip on

If need be

Me:

And my juice? 

It never came

Could I please

I’m oh so thirsty

Them:

Oh yes indeed

Right away

I’ll get that for you

So sorry

Them:

How’s everyone’s food?

To your satisfaction?

I do hope

Can I get anything for anyone?

Me:

For the love of God

I’m still waiting

What does it take 

To get a juice around here

 

MONDAY…

--- Eliminated in Monday night softball.  It was a good team that beat us but we played badly all the same.  Dumb mistakes.  It’s one thing to lose a game to a better team when you’ve both played well.  But when one of the teams doesn’t play as well as they are capable of, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

TUESDAY…

--- Regular type of work day.

WEDNESDAY…

--- Wednesday night ball wins in the semi’s and we’re on to the final next week.  This league is more recreational than the other and the team we played not as good, but still, we dropped down by seven or eight runs early and just didn’t worry about it.  Came back and scored the runs while we tightened the defence.  If anything, it’s as if the other team caved in the mental aspect of the game.  

--- Joined the team at the pub after tonight’s game.  I must have a way… a way to become invisible.  Anytime I’m with a group of more than six, my order gets screwed up at pubs and restaurants.  This time, my order vanished.  She went around the table.  Came to me… seemed to nod understanding of my order… and that was the end of that.  I wasn’t very hungry anyway and, by the time it became clear that my order wasn’t coming, I didn’t want it anyway… but it’s amazing how often I’m cast aside when it’s a group of people.  

THURSDAY…

--- Regular work day and I’m about two hours before I’m home for the night and ready to relax.  Between an accident that caused the highway to get shut down and traffic to increase elsewhere… then a trip to the vegetable stand, grocery store, liquor store, shwarma shop, and gas station, it’s a lot of running around.

FRIDAY…

--- Last time Kiyomi, Sarah and I will all work together in Latents.  I’m on evenings next week and Kiyomi leaves for CPSIC after that.  So we celebrate with bacon stackers at break time… I was going to say that, with fewer than seven of us, my order was fine.  But it just occurred to me that Derek (who joined us) had his order mixed up.  Three of our orders were made a the same time though… so it could be that I simply took Derek’s food.  Hmm.

SATURDAY…

--- Supper with Harley and family.  Nice to just stroll across the lawn to their place in flip flops.  Good meal outside on their patio and we sit and talk much of the evening after that.