Life lessons are a good thing to gather.

I am starting to gather life lessons from others now so that i can improve my own quality of life early on. Here is one that was shared with me recently:

Working people frequently ask me what I do to make my days interesting now that I am retired. Well, for example the other day the wife and I went downtown and went into a shop. We were only in there about 5 minutes. When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. We went up to him and I said, “Come on man how about giving a senior citizen a break?” He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. I called him an ignorant fool. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires. So the wife called him a butthead. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote. About then our bus arrived. We try to have fun each day now that we are retired. It’s important at our age.

Such wisdom.

Will I ever learn to say no?

As a continuing testament to the Sauron-esk power my daughter holds over me I present the following picture.


I dare any man to look into those big blue eyes and deny the request, “Daddy, can I have a yellow kitty?”

His name (though we have been instructed by our princess overlord we are to call it a her) is McKay Cat. And I think it’s feet have touched the ground a total of 15 minutes in the 24 hours we have had “her”.

Where is my Mt. Doom? What small hairy footed creature will save me from this servitude? How long must I toil in the shadow of her dominance over my will? I mean look at her…


…well maybe save me a little later.

Back in Seattle again...

...out where a friend is a friend, where the local people feed on the Thai food full of weeds, oh I'm back in Seattle again.


I am in Seattle for the week doing training on a data base program we use at work. Pros and cons:

Pros:
• I am in Seattle and I love it here
• I am getting great training on a critical program for my job
• I get to eat at so many of my old favorite restaurants
• I get to do some of the things I had always meant to do when I was here before that I never got around to (i.e. the Underground Tour)

Cons:
• I am not home the second week in our home (I can’t help unpack)
• I have found that if you don’t stay in touch with people it can be hard to find them 10 years later
• Most difficult is … I miss my wife and kids!

Tonight I am going to revisit the international district. Uwajimaya here I come!