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| Happy Birthday Mom |
Yesterday’s session with the arbitrator
turned out to be a bust, at least for my part.
The lawyers got into a discussion and then decided a contract issue had
to be resolved before the meat of the case.
I was released back to my office while my boss had to endure a full day
in the room with the lawyers. He
certainly needed a drink after that so we ended the day at Brew City. Is it somehow wrong that the waitress showed
up with our drink order without any input from us? A good time followed by another mystically
imbued pizza at Zorba’s with my favorite realist.
This is the first weekend in a long time where
we don’t have anything special planned.
There are some final yard things to be done, including the final lawn
mowing and conversion of the tractor to the snow blower mode which qualifies as
one of my least favorite annual activities.
Today is also Independence Day for Panama, something we usually mark
with a party at the house. This year we
just felt we’d been too busy (in a good way) to put it all together.
Today is also the birthday of mother who
passed away nine years ago. She was an
incredibly tough lady who had a lot to do with who I became (good and bad). She had a lot of extremely challenging events
in her life which made her a completely different person in the last few
decades of her life. In my last few
conversations with her, after a serious heart operation, she seemed to be back
to the loving, optimistic person I remembered from my youth. She passed in her sleep while still in rehab
from that operation. I like to think she
went out as that cherished person from my earliest years. Happy Birthday Mom.
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