Well, you know its been a busy weekend if you haven’t seen a post from me. We spent it in Richmond celebrating the birthday of Kelly’s mom, Linda. Hallie slept in our hotel room and was a *champion* sleeper. We all appreciated the rest!
Kelly and Hallie went home while I went to stay with Linda and Neil while I go to some business calls this week. I’m scheduled to be crazy busy while I’m here, so there won’t be much time for just goofing off. While I know Neil and Linda will take good care of me, it was incredibly hard to watch Kelly and Hallie drive off. I really don’t want to earn the reputation in Hallie’s eyes of being the parent who was never there. I’ve been fortunate not to have done much traveling this year, so maybe I’ve just grown soft. But with the Wife needing me, the Kid needing me, a house to sell and buy, and so much stuff to get worked out at work, a business trip just isn’t what I need right now.
On the good side, we may have a contract for the house this week! So that’ll be one big, big hurdle out of the way. Now to find and jump the remaining ones. I can be so impatient with things, but the control freak in me likes to be in control of my own fate. I guess life isn’t like that, huh?
So tonight, I’ll retire with Robert Baer’s autobiographical account of his time in the CIA: See No Evil, and get ready to hit the ground running tomorrow. Hope I feel up to a marathon workweek!