Back from the dead

I've been sick for the past entire week and just came out of the fog last night about the time I was supposed to have returned from the wedding I missed this weekend. Hurricane Ike is now in the spotlight making it's way through our wonderful Gulf of Mexico, cooling the atmosphere as it was designed to do in its most magnificent, swirling way. It's a grand reminder of our human frailties.

I drove to work today because it's what I do on Mondays so I can let the truck rot in the sun and I can ride the bus for free. Well I didn't get the bus ridden tonight because I got an offer for a ride home and tonight was the premier of Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles anyway, so how could I resist? It was a nice ride. I've grown to really detest driving of any kind and have come to the conclusion that it's more of a curse than a blessing, this ability to drive huge distances. I wish society wasn't so anchored to this horseless carriage.

I've been cleaning my condo like a fiend and am proud to announce that I'm able to walk across my room now. I have found my demographic (age 35-44) shifting faster away from childish ways and useless belongings. Letting go of the past is one of the most important skills one can learn. It's amazing how much lighter you can feel without the sandbags of the past haunting you at every turn. Less is more. I'm striving to pare down my possessions to what I can shove in my truck. I'm more picky and find that I'm more particular about how I spend my time and as a result I don't want it spent around piles of useless stuff I don't use or fragments of the past. As you get on in life and have less and less of it, you start to make more of it count I think. Or is it the fact that you come into the world with nothing and as you get closer to the end, you prepare for the journey back to whence you came by freeing yourself of physical baggage as well as your mental baggage. All I know is that, so far, it feels great, I hope I can keep up the purging.

The power just went out as I was writing this. Odd time for it to go out in the middle of the night when the temps are under 90 degrees near midnight. Very odd indeed.