It just turned past 6 right now and I'm somewhere over the southern oklahoma. It wears on you, the drudgery of sitting on a plane while your wife and children are just getting home from preschool and work and getting set for dinner. Maybe they're going on a wagon ride or playing in the backyard with grandma. But here I am, sitting on a plane headed to southern california. People are complaining about the functionality of their printers and losing money and wanting to know what I'm going to do about it. Meanwhile I'm wishing I was at home, maybe watching waves come in while I play with the kids at the beach. Or maybe sitting at the edge of the water letting the atlantic run past me as I'm sitting in the shoreline. In an odd stroke of luck the Rays are playing the Angels tonight and I'll be landing at 6- just in time to make it to the game. That's the glint of hopefulness that I have as I'm looking past that and thinking of a few days I'll be spending in meetings and surrounded with people from work from the time that I get up till the time I go to bed. It's not that I dislike anyone really or there's going to be some really difficult task for me to accomplish. It's just a really long day to be eating breakfast lunch and dinner and everything in between with people from work. Because inherently we only really talk about work. We all live on separate parts of the country and have our own lives and interests, but we only know each other in this context.
But yeah, my son's favorite stuffed animal was left in my truck from when I dropped him off at school this morning. So now he's going to be without it for 3 days because it's at the airport, locked in the truck. I was going to fedex it to him but my wife was worried it would get lost. I probably should have fedex'd it. Just imagining him opening the box with grandma and seeing his missing stuffed best friend would really make my day. Nope, he's locked in the hot car on the top floor of the airport parking garage. Damn, I wish I had checked for it before I left the house. I'm going to be kicking myself this whole trip about that.
NOTE: I wrote this about a month ago and never posted it.
