Before I get to the mundane task of reliving
yesterday I must take a moment to mark the passage of another anniversary of
the Best Weekend Ever Part 1 which saw my daughter and Wingman tie the knot.
Despite the passage of time it still brings smile to my face with the bundled memories
of friends and family gathering to watch these two marry. I will remember to my
dying day when the church doors opened in front my daughter and I prior to
walking down the aisle and being hit with a cascade of emotions I wasn’t
totally prepared to deal with. Life is all about those moments. Happy
Anniversary you two and thanks for blessing my life with your presence and that
special weekend.
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| Best Weekend Ever! |
Yesterday turned out to be a fairly adventurous
day, at least for my Favorite Panamanian. She was scurrying around the house
dong the last minute things a dutiful daughter will always do when awaiting the
imminent arrival of her mother. One item included running down the hill for a
quick errand just before we were supposed to leave for the airport. “Quick” is
not the operative word when a huge water main breaks between her location and
our home. She walked out of the store and saw four helicopters hovering over where
she needed to drive.
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| Linkup At Logan |
I received a frantic call in my office
saying she didn’t know how to get home because the GPS always sent her right
back into the closed streets. I already knew about the break since my staff had
been working to detour buses around it since it closed one of Worcester’s main thoroughfares.
I later learned that a man described by my wife as “Muy sympatico, bien guapo” (very
handsome) saw her panicked state and told her that she could follow him out of
the traffic mess. He got her out to the interstate at which point I received
the call telling me she was lost. I talked her down and directed her to an exit
which she uses each week to get to First Friday. As soon as she realized where
she was she indicated she as fine and could get home via her usual drive home from
there. First Friday – the gift that just keeps on giving.
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| Two Very Happy Panamanians |
On the drive to the airport she
extolled the physical beauty of her would be savior in an attempt to get a
reaction out of me. I responded by asking her what she would have done if the
roles were reversed and a beautiful young lady had offered me the same type of
help (not that I would ever need help in that area). She admitted that her head
would probably explode. The drive into Boston was otherwise uneventful and we
arrived well ahead of the scheduled landing time but still had a two hour wait
as Logan was up to their old tricks and there was no gate for my mother in law’s
plane for nearly an hour. We made our traditional stop in Natick for a very
late dinner just in time to see the Red Sox explode for some late runs to win a
game they would have lost last year.
I discovered there was a Stephen King
(The Master) book, Eyes of the Dragon, that I had somehow never read. I
consider that an affront to Western Civilization and promptly corrected that
failure on my part. The fact that it was also a fantasy milieu, one of my favorite
genres, made my failure even more egregious. King’s characters are what make
his books so unforgettable and requires more than willing investing by the reader.
The heinous villain of my favorite book by the Master, The Stand, Randall
Flagg, is back in this book in another of his incarnations of evil. He is
simply Flagg, the court magician, in a mythical kingdom trying to undermine the
rightful king and bring his signature chaos. Once again the good people must
make their stand. Flagg will never learn.
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RECURRING CHARACTERS
BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel - second granddaughter; FBR
- First Blog Reader - first granddaughter, ABFA –
Amazing Best Family Athlete = my daughter in law, formerly known both as MEF – Most Excellent Fiancé
& MEG – Most Excellent Girlfriend; Wingman – my son
in law; Keene Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school
from my home town of Keene, NH; Soxfather - my brother in law; Great
Aunt = my elder sister; Cantankerous Friend – friend since
grade school who likes to argue about everything, poses as radical leftist to
attract women; Pittsburgh College Roommate – high school
friend, also a “minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; Maine and Virginia
Musqueteras – two close friends of my wife – her US sisters, my wife
is the 3rdmusquetera (musketeer); Buddy – AKA
the Wonder Pooch – family dog, a black lab – hates squirrels, died
in 2017; Riggins - also known as the Grandpuppy,
son's dog, surrogate grandchild while awaiting arrival of the BRS; PanaGals –
female relatives/friends of my wife from Panama; Panamanian/Latin Mafia –
inevitable group of Latin friends my wife accumulates wherever we have lived
& their spouses; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close
friend and Panamanian mafia member, Favorite Panamanian - the wife
(of course); First Friday – celebrations to mark the First Friday
of the Week; Excellent Boss – my former direct boss at
work; Voices of Inappropriate Worth - members of public who
come to every Worcester public meeting to complain, all are on public
assistance along with demeanor issues
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