My little yellow Sun God is snoring on the floor next to me. His sister is nowhere to be seen. I saw enough of her when the news crew from DIO showed up. The Moon Goddess must have jumped on my lap eight times while I was being interviewed. The camera man kept calling “kitty kitty” to get her out of the camera’s focus. She only had eyes for me.
I don’t much write about my life these days. Instead I’m busier living it. After a year off the Red Plan fight I feel like I’m finally catching up on several years worth of neglected work around the house. I’ve resumed reading books. I’ve mentioned a couple that I’ve been wading through before. Today I finally finished a 550 page book I began a year ago on all the known chemical elements. Today it was Zinc and Zirconium. Fascinating metals. All of them are and the book has given me a chance to talk chemistry with my son who has gone from nearly dropping out of high school to a UMD teaching assistant who is busting his butt on his way to getting a graduate degree in Chemistry. His Mother had me email him last night to tell him we were having lamb chops for dinner tonight. Its funny but we also had a surprise dinner guest.
The Tan Man still entertains me. We must have checked out twenty books at the library together yesterday and his new little brother is no slouch either in the cutie pie department. Life is good.
Tonight, if I don’t collapse first, I should put the finishing touches on an expedition we’ve got planned for Australia next year. My second crush was with an Australian exchange student back in high school. That wasn’t the beginning of my fascination with Down Under. I knew Waltzing Matilda long before high school probably even before seeing On the Beach. I knew what marsupials and monotremes were in junior high. I’ve been pouring through travel lit including the old maps my father drew up of his travels back when my daughter was about the same age as my grandkids. Its more than just an expedition for me. Its more of a closing of a circle.
I’m also dusting off my work on the big book I planned to write before getting hijacked to fight for a vote on the Red Plan. And of course there’s my promise to have my book on the Red Plan completed by Christmas. I just love retirement. I have for about twenty years now. No matter how much I get its never enough to catch up.
