Mandaris

I joke woke up from a nightmare this morning. I dreamed that might wife had left her job which I am 100% ready for but that we went to Disneyland to celebrate it. As we were at the park it got dark and we were in line at a counter that looked more like a Chucky Cheese counter, we got some gum that was shaped like the Millinium Falcon.

As I ate the gum, I got dizzy and then I lost my family in the crowd.

I tried to look for them and I couldn’t find them.

I tried to call and my phone wouldn’t find their numbers.

I stopped in on place to get oriented and people started making fun of me.

I tried running but I found myself in the same spot.

I woke up with this feeling of desperation and loneliness.

Not a way to start my day off.

I went to go walk our dog, Lillie for the second time in just as many hours. On the way to little dog park, I saw the basket ball hoop come down. When I got there, I saw that one of the kids that lives in the area had taken it down to try and fix the net.

At first, i didn’t want to get involved.

A kid outside after 8 o’clock.

But, I decided to help him.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get the hoop net working because it was a metal net. I’ll help him set it up tomorrow.

I can’t be the only one who likes “Off the wall” more than “Thriller”.

As some of you may know, I live in an apartment complex. One of the perks is that it has a little gym on the premises. It’s something that they put on the brochure to attract new tenants and justification to raise the rent. I do enjoy the convenience of it and it is a pretty good size room, but you do get a feeling that it’s mostly a check box for management and not something they see as an ongoing project.

There are few major issues with the gym here:

1. The air conditioner doesn’t work. Yes, this is good for those who want to work up a sweat, but the last time I checked we’re still going through a pandemic and I think we’d all be better with a well ventilated area.

2. The equipment is all from the early 80s. I’m happy that we have it but a lot of the stuff is barely working if it’s working at all. The display on the tread mill has red light up digits that make me feel that it should be the count down on a doomsday device.

3. Other people take it for granted. For some reason, people get entitled and thing that just because you’re paying for the gym you don’t have to clean up after yourself.

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I might have to rethink my opinion of GoDaddy.

We’re very fortunate to be able to get our children cellphones at a reasonable price thanks to hand-me-downs and Mint Mobile. It’s definitely not a necessity, but has made things a lot smoother when it comes to communicating with the kids about their various after school activities.

Although the youngest hasn’t always followed through on making sure that her phone is on the charger every night as part of our agreed bed time routine. And, last night, my wife and I couldn’t find it. She had fallen asleep and we didn’t want to wake her so my wife and eye had to creep around the house like mice trying to find that last little bit of cheese.

The next day, I asked my daughter where it was.

She said that it was in her binder.

We hadn’t looked through it.

We hadn’t even thought to look through it.

Was it because we trusted her that we don’t look through her stuff?

For and instant, I thought about saying “Do you want us to start going through your things?”

I decided not to. I want to keep this feeling of mutual trust. The trust that I have no reason to go through her bags and that I’m only going through her things I need to.

We’re very fortunate to be able to get our children cellphones at a reasonable price thanks to hand-me-downs and Mint Mobile. It’s definitely not a necessity, but has made things a lot smoother when it comes to communicating with the kids about their various after school activities.

Although the youngest hasn’t always followed through on making sure that her phone is on the charger every night as part of our agreed bed time routine. And, last night, my wife and I couldn’t find it. She had fallen asleep and we didn’t want to wake her so my wife and eye had to creep around the house like mice trying to find that last little bit of cheese.

The next day, I asked my daughter where it was.

She said that it was in her binder.

We hadn’t looked through it.

We hadn’t even thought to look through it.

Was it because we trusted her that we don’t look through her stuff?

For and instant, I thought about saying “Do you want us to start going through your things?”

I decided not to. I want to keep this feeling of mutual trust. The trust that I have no reason to go through her bags and that I’m only going through her things I need to.

In my home, I’m the one who wakes up and makes sure that everyone is able to get to where they need to be that day. In a lot of ways, I help set the tone for how the morning is going to go.

I hear the alarm and then stumble out of bed and go down stairs to make lunches and coffee for everyone else and then wonder why it took me 20 minutes to make two sandwiches¹.

I then grab the dog so that she can go for her morning constitutional and I can listen to 10 minutes of whatever podcast that I have queued up.

But today was different, I didn’t grab my earbuds or play the podcast through my iPhone. I just walked in silence.

I saw the sunrise in my apartment complex and thought about how nice it looked today.

I rarely find myself having moments of peace and condtentment, but I think I found a little bit of it here.

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