Thoughts

Have you ever felt like all the tiny bits of wisdom, knowledge, experience, and so forth that you've gained over your lifetime are only just a TINY bit away from all coming together—like a shattering window in reverse—into a perfect whole, which will sum up your life and give you inner peace and whatnot? Had that happen on the way to work this morning. It is unbelievably frustrating not to be able to get it to come together though...keeping the window analogy, it would be as if the glass were instead made up of squirrels made of jell-o. So yes, my inner peace will be a stained jell-o glass window of living squirrels. Don't judge. But they're fast and slippery and you can't tell whether you're missing any or not, because you're having to build this window blindfolded. However, the squirrels are friendly, and catching one or two at a time is pretty easy. But hundreds? Thousands? More? Its a daunting task and one that you know is not worth quitting.

Only 4 days until my birthday, and 8 days until I get 9 days in a row of vacation. I really NEED a vacation, too. Its been a really REALLY rough year or so. 14 months I guess would cover it. My last week-long vacation was spent caring for a wife who had just broken her arm and simultanously trying to close on a house. And you just can't get any kind of deep relaxation done that way, you know?

I am taking ideas for family tree software...everyone I can find will only print out your direct line rather than the whole shepherd's pie (I would say 'enchilada', but given my family is British in ancestry, I figured I'd go with something more fitting). I don't mind paying, but ancestry.com for example wanted an exorbitant sum, which is not cool. I think I have one that MIGHT work, but I have to run a few more tests to be sure.

,,,,,chameleon. Um...my brain has just checked out for the weekend. Too bad its only Thursday morning.