Well, make that 164 hours to go.

“We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.”
Stephen Jay Gould quotes

Sorry I haven’t been posting much as of late, luckily no one likely reads this drivel…

The last week has pretty much run the gamut, I sat in court for a few hours only to find out that I indeed wasn’t getting un-married that day, worked about 6 hours on my day off and then finally got out of town about 9pm to make a 8 hour drive; vacation and turkey are powerful motivators. After that 24 hours of aggravation however, I did something I haven’t done in a long long time. I took a vacation; as in, NO work. None. Barely even called the in for an entire week. I had forgotten how it felt to actually relax and have a clear mind – how easy it is to think when you let go of all of the distractions we fill our lives with in order to avoid the things that matter. In a nutshell, I remembered what it means to be at peace.

Since I started this blog I have spent most of my time here venting, wrestling with things in an effort to understand how I was going to fix myself. If I realized one thing when I was away it is that as much as I would like to believe otherwise, I really have no control over most of what surrounds me. It’s a bit like leaving a whitewater rafting trip for a ride on the lazy river, mohito in hand. As it turns out, I am a mite bit happier and productive when I am relaxed

If I have my druthers, I am staying right here.