There Will Be Yelling

Yes, there will. And I've got it coming, too. As I have learned recently, there are some who follow my blog regularly (thanks, y'all!!!). There are even some with whom my primary means of communication is either through blogging or commenting on their blogs. So I am sorry for the severe blog-drought lately.

Work has been a slaughter. It's a good problem to have, from a business prospective. My company just had a recent round of layoffs (one of the hardest days of my professional career, and another post coming soon) to get "lean and mean", and the timing was a rough. We have been slammed to the teeth for the last couple of months, and what little time I have had I have been spending with my wife and daughter, which has the unfortunate side effect of leaving the blog a bit on the empty side. I hope you understand.

Right now, I am typing this on my laptop in a hotel in Levelland, TX, which is a bump in the road about a half-hour due west of Lubbock. This is truly The Middle of Nowhere, and I mean the point at which the distance from nowhere is measured. About the only thing here is a large junior college and oil. I'm here at for the college. We are putting in a modern, state-of-the-art sound system in a very large (for a junior college) basketball stadium. There was a crew here last week, and I joined them after a late-afternoon flight on Easter Sunday.

I'm 375 miles from home, with a fridge full of beer from the one beer joint near here (we're in a dry county. Yay.) and not a damn thing to do. We brought a projector and a small computer speaker system from the office for watching movies on, and have only each other for entertainment. After a few beer-soaked evenings, I finally decided to give this blog some attention.

I don't fully enjoy being so far from home for so long, but it does have a couple of decent perks. Since I'm miles from home, I get plenty of time to goof off with the guys without having to worry about driving home. I call my wife and daughter every single night, but I get to hang out after hours with the guys. I get to watch movies that The Wifey has no interest in seeing (stupid guy comedies, folks. No stag films here:). But, the time of brotherhood is drawing to a close, and I long for home. It is time to set my sights on the horizon...

I typed up two really good posts set them to appear tommorow and Saturday, and hopefully I can get back into the habit of posting at least somthing on a (semi-?) daily basis. I hope y'all enjoy them. I really enjoyed the hell out of tomorrow's post, so y'all come back, ya hear?



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