School starts again soon, so the next few weeks my blocks of free time will vacillate between sparse and non existent; it’s the ebb and flows of a season driven workload. Still managing to sneak in some writing here and there, but I really need to do much more about making time for it because I’m getting into the usual trouble: creating drama and drinking too much. Sometimes both at the same time.<\/p>\n
Caught up with good friends this past Friday, one who I lost touch with during the separation and divorce. He and his fiancee bought a fantastic home in a kitch town near the water. What really impressed me about the purchase is that it presents like the working home, not a starter place, even though this is their first house together and they are fairly young. Always nice when a couple gets their digs so right on round one. They really did their homework and stood their ground on what they wanted, accepting nothing less.<\/p>\n
But back to needless drama and booze. After much gin and vodka, out of nowhere I said something like: “Dude, if you hurt her, I better not find out, because I will disappear you.”<\/p>\n
The Bud: “You have my permission. I’ll deserve it.”<\/p>\n
Sam: “You just earned the next round.”<\/p>\n
Later, as the sidewalks turned some odd angles, the air went cold, and the hands of fall tugged at my bare arms, in a moment of clarity surrounded by the blur of the evening, I remembered what it felt like to put it all on the line for a girl who would do the same for me.<\/p>\n
And it was a pretty memory, just to know that it ever happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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