Day 67

Last work day before vacation. You gotta love that. Honestly though, this week is such a mail in job for most people. I was talking to my boss yesterday morning about a few things and he even said to me "this week is deader than dead for me, which means I know you aren't doing shit." There is truth in that. Today is a total mail in. Only at Leah's company are they running people like slaves today. The poor girl. This week is usually a light traffic week for her because many people are on vacation. So far, not this year. It took her an hour and 40 minutes to get home last night. I don't know how much longer she can take this commute.

Is there anything worse than stupidity? At Leah's company, they just had a round of mass layoffs and are headed in that same direction again after the first of the year. They have really started to crack down on people taking fake sick days. Tomorrow her office is closed, and she tells me this morning that this one woman called in sick. She also called in sick the day before her last scheduled vacation. How dumb are people? You know they are looking at you and are about to go through more layoffs and you take a sick day today? Genius. You know who takes today as a sick day? People like my schister ex-friend Caplin. The same guy who I just heard is now living in San Diego and is a used car salesman. Perfect job for that jamoke.

Ticket prices for big time sporting events are getting out of control. I am taking clients to the Kentucky/Kansas game in a couple of weeks in Lawrence. Leah is coming with as well. I just spent over $1100 for 4 tickets to a regular season game between a KU team who currently is 5-4 and looking average at best and a Kentucky team which lost to Indiana by 20 a few weeks back and is 7-3. I thought maybe the ticket price would have come down, but they haven't. Every broker I have spoken to and website I have looked at are the same. And I don't want you to think I'm sitting midcourt in the lower deck. I've got corner seats. The best seats are upwards of $850-$1000 a piece. That is a joke. That being said, I cannot wait to get back into the fieldhouse again. Allen Fieldhouse and Jacobs Field are my two sanctuaries. When I am doing yoga, they tell you to finish by taking yourself to your most serene place, the place where you are the happiest. You know where that is? The Jake, 5th row behind the Tribe dugout, on a beautiful sunny summer afternoon with my dad sitting right next to me.

For the first time since his death, Leah and I put in part of our wedding video. There are two parts, we watched the part that included the pre-wedding pictures and the ceremony (which we always fast forward through because it is so boring). I have looked at plenty of pictures of my father since he died, but I was almost scared to watch a video tape. There was dad with mom, smiling, joking, and walking around. He looked so good. He was very thin and he and mom looked so happy. It just broke my heart. I couldn't hold back tears. It was just so hard to watch. At some point I was going to have to watch it again, and we felt like we were ready. I'm glad we did it, but it just again illustrates to me how unfair it was that he was taken away from us. The guy the was the best. No ifs ands or buts about it. And I miss every single second of everyday.

Song of the Day" "Girl" by Beck