The dull roar

Either I haven’t been home long enough or I’m just a lousy time manager because I’m still a bit time stressed and have too much to do. I wonder about people that go home from work and ‘kill time’. How? Time doesn’t need to be killed, it spins off relentlessly, taking its toll on everything, and eventually kills us. But that aside, how do they find time to do nothing? I’m not totally caffeine saturated and I didn’t sleep as well as I would have liked but I can’t clearly pull an imaginary time span up when I would have nothing to do. Do people that have nothing to do have a better lifestyle or longer lifespan? Yes, I’m curious. Do they?

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Family reunion – travel – poker with family – all coming up in another post. Pictures to be sorted through and resized are part of the project.

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Riot has been staying with Grandmom for the last few days. He’s going home today at some point. What a character. I wish I could say he has a calm, sunshine filled life but i can’t. He’s torn between two parents (typical of today’s society) and he has his own issues…plus he watches their interaction and it ain’t pretty sometimes. One thing is for sure, if you put that kid in a dirt pile, with nothing else, he’d be entertained for hours. And he ain’t killing time, he’s on perpetual fast forward except when he’s asleep.

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I love these kind of phone calls:

Me, “Hello.”

“May I speak to the man or lady of the house?”

“NO!”

“What? Did you just say ‘NO!’?”

“I don’t want to talk to anyone.”

“Are you the lady of the house?”

“Does it make a difference?”

“Yes.”

I hung up. He sounded shocked that I had answered NO. I laughed my ass off over it and felt better about life in general that I had interrupted his game plan when he had planned to interrupt mine with a sales pitch.

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It’s hot in Pahrump. Around 105 and I have outside projects to do. I have a small window of time when the sun slips behind the mountains and the temperature drops to around 102 to accomplish a few of those projects. But all in all, life is good.

I’ll be back to Poker 101 tomorrow as I play the PokerStars Sunday guarantee. A cash would be so wonderful for some of my future projects. 🙂