A Battlefield Tourist

Time To Go

Sep 5 at 9:09am by David Tate

I really hate these days.  They’re the ones that you can actually hear the seconds tick away.  It’s even louder today than normal… probably because baby Davin is competing with her frequent bouts of crying.

Spent yesterday getting the rest of my gear and packing, thinking and cleaning the house.  Yes, cleaning the house.  Filled the jeep with gas, paid a bunch of bills twice (so I don’t come home to them), transferred money from savings to my wife’s account and thought about buying a new laptop.  Don’t have the money for that, so I borrowed an old Mac from a friend giving me at least a place to write.  Unfortunately the internal battery is kaput,  who knows how well it will work for me.  I was able to install some editing software on it, so maybe, just maybe we can post some stuff to YouTube while I’m gone.  I won’t worry about that too much, though.  We’ll see.

Of course I also spent some quality time with Heidi and Davin.  I cannot even express how much I’ll miss them both, particularly Davin.  She is just so sweet and a joy to my life. 

As of right now, I have about three hours to get it all together and hit the road.  That includes getting over to the computer store for a refund and a stop by the worksite to pay my benefits for the month (so they don’t discontinue).  After that, a four hour ride to DC with Davin, Heidi and the Mom-in-law.  They’ll drop me at Dulles where I get to sit another five hours waiting for my plane to leave and to finally meet Bill.