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Waxing enthusiasm, revisited.
He has left, and the disturbance has gone with him. You know a vacation is coming on soon when you find yourself sitting at your desk with your mind on vacation a week early. I’ve been thinking about how I’d like to do the drive and how many hours I’d like to get in the first day. I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to do when I get there and anticipating how much fun I’ll have doing it. Ideally, I would have thought about it when I wasn’t being paid to think of something else. Now that I’m not being paid, I’m tired of thinking about it.
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We interrupt this message.
The doctor’s office is normally a quiet place to write, but not today. Since I am unable to concentrate on anything else, lets talk about what is going on here. There is a gentleman sitting two seats down that is imploring everyone to pray. “We should pray for…” – the topics vary. That things will go back to the way they were twenty years ago … that terrorists won’t strike back … that everyone will have a son as wonderful as mine … that the “crazed lunatic” will go quickly and with little bloodshed ….
I’m trying not to find fault with the guy, he’s just voicing his opinions. I just wish he wouldn’t do it so loudly. I could hear him over a vacuum cleaner. Not long ago I saw a nurse appear at the front desk. I am here often enough to know that she is not normally there. She was just looking at this gentleman. Then she turns to me with a look that says, “I’ll bet you wish you had a muzzle.”
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Waxing enthusiasm.
A trip with unprecedented driving distances is coming up soon. We will be driving eleven hours to visit with family in a major metropolitan area.