Making It Up As I Go Along #320

MONDAY...
— In to work for noon. Work goes alright... and after I’m done, it’s off to a ball game. Playing our first game of slow pitch. I’m rusty in the field and out in front of the first at bat... but the second at bat is better for a solid hit. We lose the game though.

TUESDAY...
— Not a load of sleep... I was up around 7:00 this morning. A couple of naps before work... work is alright... and go for a drink with Karl after work. I also do the dentist before work... so I’m out of the house from 12:15 in the afternoon to 1:15 in the night. Times like this, it’s good I don’t have a dog.

WEDNESDAY...
— Slow day at work until about 9:30... the last hour goes by well. Not much else on the go today.

THURSDAY...
— Work sort of a day shift. 9:15 to 4:30... it would have been 8:30 to 4:30 but I worked extra time Tuesday.
— A luncheon breaks up the shortened work day and I go straight to the airport from the office thanks to a long cab ride in traffic. Once there, and ready for the vacation back home, I find that my flight is cancelled. Fog in St. John’s.
— So Melissa is good enough to come from work to get me (so no more cab fare to throw out the window)... and I’m back to the house in Ottawa... until Sunday! Air Canada can’t often slide you in to the next possible flight... no, I’m waiting around for three days. Well vacation starts now either way... no work tomorrow whether I can go do it or not. I don’t like using leave for no reason but I mentally checked out of the office when I hopped in the cab today, going back tomorrow won’t do any good.
— I did have one interesting moment at the airport. For a few seconds, I walk along side the greatest coach in hockey history. Going in the same direction but me going faster, so I pass him by... I see Scotty Bowman. I’m taller by the way.

FRIDAY...
— Up kind of early so it’s napping on the sofa with a bit of TV in the morning.
— Get a couple of groceries to get me through to Sunday... and watch a movie in the evening with a bit of Subway for supper.

SATURDAY...
— Out to Gatineau Park with Melissa. We do some hiking around there and then go back to her place. Move a sofa, go for burgers at The Works (my first time eating elk), and we rent a movie.
— Thunder storm after I get home brings hail for a few minutes.

SUNDAY...
— Out with Melissa again today. This time Mer Bleue where we see a muskrat, three turtles, several birds, and a bird’s nest.
— Home for a few hours to get ready for flight attempt number two to St. John’s.

Yesterday I Wore Sandals

Yesterday I wore sandals.

I dug through the closet to pull out my coolest shirt
trying to be comfortable at work.

Last night I saw lightning.

Black cotton clouds rolled over the land
bringing thunder and hail on gusting winds.

Today I saw flowers.

With bees and mosquitoes buzzing the air
trying to have snacks, one on pollen, the other on me.

Tonight I’ll see family.

There among dozens of locals waiting for theirs
All strangers to me but all happy to find one another.

Tomorrow I’ll see icebergs.

Sitting in the ocean with swells of sea
lapping at their base as gulls float overhead.

I’ll be there on familiar lands feeling known breezes,
Bundled up wondering where the green has gone,
And with sandals the furthest thing from my mind.