Disconnected thoughts

Boy is it nice to be able to just go home after work. Last night Alison was taking the dog to adult dog training classes so it meant we drove separately. I was home by 5:30, got to quickly mow the grass around the immediate perimeter of the house, do a little work on the Vette, eat dinner, play some xbox and still found time to watch American Idol. You see most days I watch the dog after work for an hour so Alison gets a chance to go to the gym. So most nights we don’t roll in the door until close to 7. It’s amazing how much of a difference that extra hour and a half makes. It was nice to have some extra time during the week.

My brother arrives today. They don’t get in until late afternoon. It is a shame, the way it is going to break out we probably won’t see that much of them. The 3 days we have off for the weekend, they are staying in Sarasota with my sister-in-laws parents. I don’t quite understand why they didn’t schedule to see them during weekdays since they are retired and are available all week long. They are going to be staying at my mom’s place. It sort of bums me out that my brother has never been down to visit in the nearly 4 years we have been in Naples and now that he is, we will more than likely see very little of him. I could analyze this further but it is pointless to do so.

I noticed something the other day regarding people with the newer cellphones that do neato things like play mp3 songs when an incoming call goes in. It’s funny to me, they go through all the trouble to set the phone up to use the silly mp3’s but then when the phone rings, they almost seem embarrassed by the song and hurriedly rush to stop it from making noise as soon as possible. Maybe I just perceive it that way. Give me an old fashioned “ring, ring”, I have no desire to hear the macarena everytime someone is trying to reach me.

The blisters on my feet are slowly draining so I can walk without limping for the first time since Sunday. I ordered my sand socks on Monday.